Sunset Overdrive

“Sunset Overdrive is the uncontested Xbox One system-seller in Microsoft’s fall 2014 lineup.”

I’ll admit that when I first saw Sunset Overdrive unveiled at E3 2013 I had my doubts.  An open world like experience that combined energy drinks, mutants, and over-the-top weapons was a formula I’d yet to see in a game.  Since that time we’ve seen trailers and early gameplay showing a game that seems to be original, crazy, and pretty much everything that developer Insomniac Games (Ratchet & Clank...

Microsoft Studios tapped on one of the best developers in the business for this Xbox One exclusive, and Sunset Overdrive is a triumphant next-gen coming out party for Insomniac.

Sunset Overdrive is big, gorgeous, and a hell of a lot of fun. Never has getting from point A to point B in an open-world game provided so much enjoyment. It provides some of the most fun, frantic, and fantastic gaming I've had on the Xbox One. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to once-again adorn my wolf mask, leap off the highest ledge I can find, and fire an explosive stuffed animal at that group...

Want to know how to make a truly great game? Provide players with a liberating and energetic method of traversal, create an eye-popping urban environment that serves as a massive playground, and do everything you can to promote uninhibited fun within that space. That’s the essence of Sunset Overdrive, and it’s why we think this is arguably the best new IP so far this console generation.

Sunset Overdrive is one of the rare games that feels complete in an age where most games feel like a combination of elements from all over the place. Everything in Sunset Overdrive works, from the gameplay, to the art design, the humor, and the combat, and each feeds off the other to create a title that not only feels great, but cohesive as well. Fans of open world games that emphasize freedom of ...

Sunset Overdrive is a fun and fast paced third person shooter. If you want to play a game that doesn't require too much and has a good sense of humor then you should enjoy this game.

Take me down to the Sunset City where the monsters are green and the carnage is pretty.

Colorful, sardonic, and all-around fun, Sunset Overdrive cranks up the insanity meter to 11 on the Xbox One.

The only real drawback to the game is that its missions struggle to match the quality of the writing and the gunplay. There's great packaging, sure, but it gets to the point where shooting enemies while grinding on rails becomes a bit tired. Even so, this is a case where all the good will a game earns outshines its shortcomings. Sunset Overdrive reminds players that games are inherently supposed t...

Sunset Overdrive has some excellent ideas, but its triumphs are sadly suffocated beneath ultra-repetitive mission design and unsatisfying enemy encounters.

There is a signature style that can be found in a singular work by a game developer, a style that is carried over across many projects and lives on in many forms. Insomniac Games has been focused on a single style for some time, yes this style has vanished in one or two of their lesser games, but in the big ones the brilliance and wackiness shines. Insomniac Games is best known for their mostly fa...