The Surge 2: Premium Edition
released on Jan 16, 2020
Welcome to Jericho City. Explore the devastated metropolis and fight its numerous, ferocious threats in unforgiving combat. Slash and tear equipment from foes utilizing The Surge 2's dynamic Limb Targeting System. The Surge 2 - Premium Edition contains the full game, and all the Season Pass content. This includes the story-focused expansion The Kraken, and all the new weapons and armor sets DLCs.
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Top 50 Favorites: #31
Base game:
Such an amazing Souls clone that I honestly prefer this to any of those games. Frantic, darkly comic, neon-laced psychedelia that I never wanted to put down - beneficially removes all of the forced doom-and-gloom bullshit from the first game (of which I still remain a defender) in favor of letting the story take a side-seat while you get thrown into the ring with a murders row of colorful characters. Major General Ezra Shields is one of the most teeth-grindingly difficult (but fun!) bosses I've ever fought. It also irons out the kinks of the first's combat - giving us one of the most deeply satisfying block/parry systems in a video game and a vast array of weapons with their own snappily taut control setup. Incredibly inventive armor system and atmosphere, and the length feels just perfect (unthinkable for a Soulslike). Plus come on, just fucking look at this thing. It's a beautiful behemoth.
The Kraken DLC:
As fantastic, offbeat, and aesthetically playful as the base game - shame this was its only expansion, but understandable given its release smack-dab before the COVID pandemic. Genius move to throw this entire DLC on a massive retro-themed ship-turned-floating-town, it fits right into the already vibrant and freakish world the base so keenly crafted. As rad as any game with a boss named "Collective Incinerator" should be.
Base game:
Such an amazing Souls clone that I honestly prefer this to any of those games. Frantic, darkly comic, neon-laced psychedelia that I never wanted to put down - beneficially removes all of the forced doom-and-gloom bullshit from the first game (of which I still remain a defender) in favor of letting the story take a side-seat while you get thrown into the ring with a murders row of colorful characters. Major General Ezra Shields is one of the most teeth-grindingly difficult (but fun!) bosses I've ever fought. It also irons out the kinks of the first's combat - giving us one of the most deeply satisfying block/parry systems in a video game and a vast array of weapons with their own snappily taut control setup. Incredibly inventive armor system and atmosphere, and the length feels just perfect (unthinkable for a Soulslike). Plus come on, just fucking look at this thing. It's a beautiful behemoth.
The Kraken DLC:
As fantastic, offbeat, and aesthetically playful as the base game - shame this was its only expansion, but understandable given its release smack-dab before the COVID pandemic. Genius move to throw this entire DLC on a massive retro-themed ship-turned-floating-town, it fits right into the already vibrant and freakish world the base so keenly crafted. As rad as any game with a boss named "Collective Incinerator" should be.
Best soulslike outside the originals. Amazing level design and sense of place. Combat never got boring.