The Surge

Battle-crazed colleagues and berserk robots in the world’s most hostile work environment

- Ben Griffin

Morally murky technology giant CREO probably didn’t envisage its industrial equipment being used in deadly melee throw downs, but it turns out a drill the size of a postbox is quite good for hitting people with. And you’ll need all the tools you can get in this steely sci-fi RPG from the minds behind 2014’s Lords Of The Fallen.

It’s all self-defence, of course. We, as CREO employee Warren, wake up groggy in an exo-skeleton with no idea why our former colleagues – many of whom are malfunctioning machines – have gone all murdery. A stretch of metal rebar is our only defence against buzzing utility drones swooping at us in the construction yard. Combat’s stamina-based, all about carefully timing strikes while leaving enough green in the meter to block and dodge. We dispatch them and push through to the medbay.