In the new trailer for action-RPG The Surge, developer Deck 13 and publisher Focus Home Interactive give us a brief look at Warren’s first day on the job at CREO, a mega-corporation trying to save the world from itself. It also reveals that The Surge is scheduled for a May 2017 launch on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
If you’d rather see some gameplay, check out this four-minute video from last month:

As Deck 13 explains, when Warren gets equipped with an exo-suit, a catastrophic event happens inside CREO and it leaves everyone wanting to kill him:
Freshly recruited as an augmented worker, Warren’s first day coincides with a catastrophic event deep inside CREO, during the routine surgical operation meant to graft, through flesh and bone, the exo-suit required for the company’s employees. This disastrous event marks the first in a series of brutal events, turning this first day at CREO into a hellish nightmare of robots gone haywire, crazed employees with fried cranial implants, and artificial intelligence all wanting Warren dead. Now equipped with a state-of-the-art exoskeleton, you’ll have to improvise in order to survive – tools manipulated by CREO workers, while not originally meant for combat, make for effective lethal weapons. The equipment pieces compatible with your exo-suit will make you faster, stronger, and sturdier. During battle, target specific limbs of your enemies, slice them and retrieve the powerful attached equi...