The Surge released last May, and our reviewer Martin Patiño found it to be a pretty great take on the brutally-hard action RPG, or Souls-like genre. At the recent Le What?s Next De Focus event hosted by publisher Focus Home Interactive, a sequel titled The Surge 2 was officially announced. We managed to sit down with a few members of Deck13 Interactive to talk about what?s new this time around, and have our impressions ready below.
Wide Open Spaces
The setting in The Surge 2 is a large shift away from indoor spaces, to incorporate the wider world. It?s more of an open world, and the player will be able to meet the people who inhabit the dystopian society. The city center will be seen and traversed. While the world is now more open, there are still plenty of threats to be found. Since The Surge 2?s world is more opened up, side quests can be taken on, and things other than the current main mission will be allowed to be done. The FLEDGE engine, a proprietary game engine created by Deck13 for this and other games, has been upgraded to allow for many gameplay improvements.
Targeting individual body parts was a key distinction of The Surge. In this sequel, limb damage will now change how robotic enemies react. So when a part of theirs is disabled, they may become much more enraged, since some critical system has been destroyed. Attacking from the side or behind can also give the player an advantage, which is something most will try to do.

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