Sunset Overdrive is a stylish third person shooter set in a world where the zombie apocalypse was caused by a new energy drink, so it basically predicted the development process for Death Stranding in much the same way the Metal Gear universe predicted how our government currently functions. It’s a blast, though it takes some getting used to. I’ve been mainly playing it with a controller, and have had to tweak a few things to my liking, but so far it’s quite the stitch.
The overall attitude the game presents you with is very reminiscent of the Borderlands, or the newer Saint’s Row games in terms of how it presents itself. The gameplay is vastly different, but the overall tone from the characters to the art style seems to take some inspiration from Borderlands, not fearing to tell you how the world is.
The objective of the game is to kill ODers (Over Drivers, energy drink zombies) with your arsenal of weapons while grinding around on telephone poles and railings as well as jumping from car to car while performing style moves that you unlock after awhile. I’m kinda bummed they didn’t include a multiplayer mode like the one that came with the original XBox One release, as it would have been to play with or against other players, though at the time when they released it on PC they did discount it a but to make up for the lack of multiplayer… then again the game also had been out for quite awhile before Microsoft got desperate to get PC Gamers to pay attention to them again and ported half the game to PC, so all in all I’m glad I waited for a sale. :v:
As you progress through the game you’ll find more weaponry. My first present was a musket with testicles, and I recently purchased a gun that shoots records.
All in all it isn’t a bad game, for what I’ve played of it anyway. It’s kind of funny to think this was one of the exclusives that Microsoft used to try and get people to play on XBox, and I knew a lot of XBox gamers at work, and not one of them really said much about Sunset Overdrive… Then again they mainly fixated on anything Halo or Destiny related.