While the screen tearing was decidedly less noticeable in Quality mode (which prioritizes resolution over framerate), the texture issues persisted throughout both. What was surprising - to me, at least - was the frequent screen tearing in the more complex environments (like Gideon's Rock) and some consistent, very noticeable level-of-detail pop-in problems on character models, particularly my own. The same can be said of the occasional camera getting stuck behind a wall or object during a fight. I noticed a few spots where, even in the PS4 Pro's Performance mode (which is meant to maximize framerate over resolution and fancy effects), things would momentarily hitch when a lot of action and environmental effects were on screen, but those were too few and far between to be a serious problem or cause me to die when I shouldn’t have. It's not that The Surge 2 is buggy or broken - all 20+ hours of my initial playthrough and the several hours I've spent in New Game+ ran smoothly and (almost) without issue. The R&D area, for instance, looked and felt completely different from the manufacturing plant. By contrast, one of the things I really appreciated about the original was that, while the different areas of the CREO complex all had some unifying elements (corporate signage and propaganda, or the uniform design of the Science Fiction Maintenance Tunnel), the thematic design of each zone was unique. Its five main areas (technically there are nine to explore, but you'll only really spend a meaningful amount of time in five) all have a different look and feel - the downtown shopping district, the port, the hospital/business district, etc - but aside from one or two they all feel like variations on the same "urban wasteland" template. The Surge 2 takes place in the ruins of Jericho City (complete with its own big wall, definitely no biblical allegories here), the closest metropolis to the ill-fated CREO facility, after a mysterious plane crash that unleashed a torrent of sentient machines called Nanites and left the city a cordoned-off no man’s land.
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