Sunset Overdive (Xbox One)

Sunset Overdive (Xbox One)

 

Sunset Overdrive is Insomniac first games for the Xbox One. The Developers also made Spyro The Dragon, Resistance and Ratchet & Clank, came up with a new and open world game filled with humor. Especially when you keep in last series in mind , Your going to notice that Sunset Overdrive setting isnt a stranger in Insomniac Games' portfolio is. The game shines and exudes the cocky American development studio and for this reason this ads the chance to make a killer game.

The year 2027 in Sunset City, a fictional city with an even more fictional protagonist. The unnamed man or woman - Character design is entirely in your hands - Your working as a garbage collector in a festival organized by the company FizzCo. FizzCo is also the distributor of the energy drink Overdrive and let this happen to be the party where there just now introducing their new kind of drink. A drink that turns partying crowd into a bunch of mutants. Mutants who think differently the more Overdrive they consume. Nothing better for our character to escape and outwitted themselves for a few days in his apartment. To make matters worse his beer stock dwindles rapidly until the refrigerator is empty. Forced to get out , our hero in the making finds out that he is not the only survivor. Other survivors are busy in the back finding a way out of Sunset City

All the characters in Sunset Overdrive are as a bit crazy . To give a small example - and the rest of the game is not spoilen - is Walter. This headstrong gentleman is the first person who offers us protagonist help and also a pro in making badass-introductions. The game paused for a short time in a cartoonish way to introduce Walter  in Sunset Overdrive. During this break his name and brief physical description on the screen came on again after that the game went to its essence: mutants knocked popping and grinding.

The atmosphere is set from the first minute. Who wants to survive can best keep moving, otherwise you not only get a whole battalion mutants on your roof, move also provides bonus points. As a player, you have to remember only three basic movements: grinds, bounces and wall runs. Grinds and bounces you do are most often the fastest way to propel themselves through the game world. Insomniac Games obliged you actually partly to grind as much as possible and to bounce, because the main character itself is very slow when walking. Slow when he or she wants to wander into the world, but giganticly quickly when he or she knows to grind. Cars, umbrellas or air vents you use to air catapult. The functionality of these objects have been limited to glorified trampolines and that's not so bad. Each object gives you a huge boost and let happen that boost is what you just now needed to get to the desired elevated pipes, electricity cables or fences to reach some of them.

With your character grinding you get that typical Tony Hawk gameplay is coming to float above water. Although you can not perform tricks - all you can do is grind on top or bottom of a tube - this is the coolest way to move through Sunset Overdive. Then we have wall runs , we can already conclude that a combination of these three possibilities of movement Sunset Overdrive great fun.
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Using the motion capabilities may be fun, they are also rewarding. If you swappen enough between grinds, bounces and wall runs, they fill a special style meter. The higher the style meter, the more options you unlock. Your also able to unlock different upgrades in Sunset Overdive. Not only your hero, but also your weapon here will be better off upgraded . Upgrades have the name Amps. Each Amp has a certain characteristic while obtaining a higher style level in your style meter a corresponding Amp activates. Level two-Amps are there for less powerful, then their level three Amps.

Amps can be earned in various ways. You can find all sorts of collectibles in Sunset Overdive  ranging from balloons, smelly shoes, toilet paper or even security cameras.

Crazy weapons have always been the trademark of Ratchet & Clank, but Sunset Overdrive should definitely not be any diffrent . In addition to an ordinary Crowbar High Fidelity creates lethal grooves. This weapon fires vinyl plates off while the Flaming Compensator, Dirty Harry, Freeze Bomb, Acid Sprinkler and Captain Ahab have a turn offensive characteristics. In order not to spoil the fun, I am not going to discuss them in detail. Each weapon has its strengths against specific enemies. A clear weapon wheel  will ensures that you can pick quickly between weapons. New weapons can be gotten at Two Hat Jack - a fellow character - in exchange for cans of Overcharge withc can be obtained by chopping mutants in pieces.

Mutants come in different types and weights. Latest you mighty take literally, because you have to know the more Overdrive the mutants drink, the larger and more powerful they become. Sometimes we see grotesque specimens who might remind you of the Resistance Series. Although they are quite easy to get small - with or without appropriate weaponry - battles can still be quite spicy. Sunset City is not the easiest game I  played, ie can hardly call it anything easy.
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Sunset Overdrive is a humorous and very nice looking game. The funky soundtrack made me smile a few times. Both strengths work like a well-oiled machine, the comic-style graphics and typical Insomniac Games humor lets you feel like you were sitting in a Pixar movie . Jokes flying around your ears and the interaction with the player is unseen. Many times you will be addressed and noticed by the main character. He or she knows that you are there, you control him or her. The way your character looks like, is all up to you. Insomniac Games gives you plenty of freedom to put together your own hero. Select a gender, the size of the nose, the color of the eyes, the thickness of his or her feet until even the clothes. Everything is possible at all times and adaptable.

You will not get the most powerfull story while playing to the ten-hour single player story. Although stretched by different secondary tasks - like  there are forty smart phones to collect and as many as 54 small challenges - Sunset Overdrive also features a multiplayer. The gameplay design of the single player was largely reflected in the multiplayer. Here again we see the Amps pass by.. With up to seven other players you enter a series of small missions ranging from fights, go from point A to point B as quickly as possible or getting objects within a certain time. The tower-defense game is again present under the name Night Defense. After a few laps in the multiplayer i called it a day, because it soon became clear to me that most off the focus went to the single player.