The Surge: A Walk in the Park returns players to the technical nightmare seen in The Surge but now inside an amusement park. CREO World a place meant as recreation and fun for employees has become anything but relaxing and fun once the machines went haywire. Now, you must battle through the park in order to help restore order and save those trapped in this nightmare-filled themed park. With new enemies to face and a new area to explore, The Surge: A Walk in the Park captures the gameplay of the original but add a few extra hours of new content to enjoy. If you loved The Surge, it’s time to arm up again in The Surge: A Walk in the Park.

With the same action gameplay from before, The Surge: A Walk in the Park gives players more to enjoy but in a new section unseen in the main game. Gain new weapons and fight two new bosses and tons of new enemies in this DLC expansion to The Surge. With a new story to enjoy, meet a new cast of characters trying to survive and hoping you’re their hero to free from this living hell. The Surge: A Walk in the Park takes you through a new challenge and if you think you’re up for it, then get your weapons ready. The park has been closed and you’re the one to clean up.

CREO World was a place made for CREO employees to take a break from the daily grind and enjoy a place of leisure and fun roller coaster rides. Filled with mascots and with a vibrant setting, CREO World was a place of true bliss. However, after the technical breakdown CREO World became a terrible area now filled with machines that have gone berserk like CREO’s main area. Stumbling upon a man who claims to have a means of saving those trapped in CREO World you must now fight within the park defeating numerous enemies that stand in your way. CREO World was once fun, but now, it’s a nightmare that you’re about to get trapped in…

The Surge, when it released back in May 2017, was actually a surprisingly awesome game from developer Deck13 Interactive. We loved the tough Dark Souls-like gameplay but intriguing sci-fi world we found ourselves fighting tooth and nail in. We’ve been hoping The Surge wouldn’t come to an end and were quite happy to hear DLC was being released for it in the form of The Surge: A Walk in the Park. Is this DLC worth spending your cash on to return to The Surge or should you skip it? Let us see in our review of The Surge: A Walk in the Park.

Briefly, we’ll reintroduce you to the world of The Surge and what can be expected from you when playing. In The Surge, you control a guy who has been fused to a metallic frame suit when various systems go out of control during an operation to restore your legs. When you wake up after losing consciousness, you learn that the world around you has become infested with people who have lost their minds and machines that have gone berserk. The Surge: A Walk in the Park brings you back to this post-apocalyptic sci-fi world, but now, in a new location called CREO World.

Once more, players will take their hero and need to hack and slash their way through various new enemies and bosses to save those trapped in the theme park during the event that made all the machinery go out of control. It’s a simple premise to give returning players a new reason to explore a new area but it works well thanks to the area feeling like it should exist in the world we’re in. Plus, the new enemies give players a new threat face off against which is always a plus in any DLC. We have some problems though with the new DLC in The Surge, but we’ll first mention the stuff we liked about it and save the issues for last.

Speaking about the positives, The Surge: A Walk in the Park is a really cool place to explore. The theme park, at first, seems almost too happy and cheerful in comparison to the dark and bleak work environments of the main game. However, within a few minutes of being in CREO World you begin to become uneasy as you see the mascots who look silly and joke-y attack you with big arms and donut shaped heads. If you do begin to miss the dark hallways and such though don’t be worried as The Surge: A Walk in the Park offers up plenty more areas like that as you explore the underground portions of CREO World. If we loved anything about The Surge: A Walk in the Park, it’s definitely this new area and how much it offers exploration wise.

Though trust us folks, we didn’t just love the areas we do love the new enemies which start off comical at first but slowly become quite menacing. While many of the enemies in The Surge: A Walk in the Park feel similar to the main game’s enemies and how their AI works, that doesn’t mean you’ll have an easy time beating these foes. Some enemies like the long-armed machines or even the beginning donut mascots still can be fast and all too quick to kill those who think they are too overpowered for this DLC area. Even the bosses can be a bit tricky but for veterans of The Surge, they won’t pose much of a problem. There are some cool new armor sets to collect and try out but that is where we will now shift things to the issues we had with The Surge: A Walk in the Park.

Like The Surge main game, the A Walk in the Park DLC suffers from the fact that for most, the new armor sets aren’t going to be as good as your main gear. Even if you did want to max them out too, you’ll have to once more go through the earlier areas recollecting materials which just feels like a chore at this point, if we’re being honest. Another issue we have with The Surge: A Walk in the Park is that reaching this DLC area can be either really simple or really annoying and even possibly ten times harder to beat. Like Dark Souls, The Surge’s DLC can be accessed via being either in the second area of the game or an area called Central Production B. If you’re new to The Surge, then once you’ve done a certain amount in the DLC it will kick you out till you make it further in the game which can be annoying. For those who have beaten The Surge once though, they won’t have this issue and can complete A Walk in the Park all in one shot. It’s quite frustrating to be honest for newcomers, but veterans will just have to suffer the harder difficulty and that can be annoying as well.

While The Surge: A Walk in the Park doesn’t change much in terms of gameplay, it does add two new bosses and several new enemies to face as well as new armor sets to be found and crafted. However, The Surge: A Walk in the Park does suffer from the same issues we had with the main game as well as too many items that really aren’t useful making the new armor not worth it outside of looks especially if you don’t want to grind for materials again. Making matters worse is that the DLC is easy to get to but you’ll have to make it through the main game to a certain point and for those in New Game+ mode you’re looking at a hard time getting through the DLC just because of the enhanced difficulty. The Surge: A Walk in the Park is worth your time if you need more The Surge and want to smash on some weird looking new enemies and donut mascots, which was just fun to be honest. That’s why ultimately, we enjoyed just playing more of The Surge and that is the main selling point at the end of the day we think here at Honey’s Anime.

We enjoyed our time with The Surge: A Walk in the Park as we liked The Surge before and now got to enjoy more of the sci-fi world we’ve come to be captured by. Sure, The Surge: A Walk in the Park may have some issues but with some new enemy variants, several new areas to explore and a few new bosses to conquer for the low price of $14.99, The Surge: A Walk in the Park is an easy DLC to recommend. Are you interested in stepping back into The Surge with this new DLC or are you giving A Walk in the Park a solid pass for now? Let us know by using the comment section below as we always love hearing from you beautiful souls. Remember to keep stuck to our hive here at Honey’s Anime for more gaming news, articles and of course reviews.