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Dark Souls’ impact on the gaming industry was profound. It showed audiences and other developers how challenge, difficulty and boss fights could all be elevated while still maximising on the enjoyment factor. In the wake of such success, its no surprise that many new titles are trying to copy the formula, with varying degrees of success.
One such title was The Surge, a game that switched up swords and magic for sci-fi and machines.
Competent but hardly groundbreaking, The Surge was definitely one of the better Dark Souls clones to come out in recent years. Now it appears to be taking another stab at it by means of a fun-looking expansion set in a theme park.
According to an article on Eurogamer –
Developer Deck13 has released the first footage of A Walk in the Park, its upcoming, large-scale expansion for Dark-Souls-inspired sci-fi adventure The Surge – which, it’s now revealed, will launch for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on December 5th.
A Walk in the Park was announced last month and is the first major expansion for The Surge. It promises to offer a bit of a structural departure from the base game, trading claustrophobic industrial corridors for the vibrant openness of the CREO World amusement park – which, as you’d expect from any theme park worth its salt, comes complete with rollercoasters, a ferris wheel, and murderous robot mascots.
Deck13 described A Walk in the Park’s new amusement-park-themed map as more “open” than anything previously seen in The Surge, “full of branching paths and secrets to discover”. And if newfound traversal freedom isn’t enough to be getting on with, the expansion also includes 16 new weapons, armour sets, and implants.
A Walk in the Park is currently listed at £12.99 on its Steam pre-order page, and will likely be similarly priced on other platforms when it launches on December 5th. A Complete Edition will also be released on the same day, bundling up the original game and all DLC – that’s A Walk in the Park, the CREO Special Employee Kit, and the Fire & Ice Weapon Pack.
We have to admit, tearing up giant robots with chainsaws does sound like a great way to spend the holiday.
Be sure to check out the trailer for The Surge: A Walk In The Park below!