Sunset Overdrive Reviews

Sunset Overdrive as a whole is a fun experience but ultimately feels like it’s lacking a certain something. It’s direction feels a bit lost and I’m not quite sure who the game is for. The game feels quite easy for the majority and dying has almost no consequence. Story missions are by far the worst part of the game. When they have you killing enemies, they are extremely satisfying but when you’re delivering things from one side of the map to the other, the game feels like nothing but a chore.

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 family friendly Playstation exclusive Ratchet and Clank which cements the studios general style, and then in the inverse we now have Sunset Overdrive an exclusive for the Xbox One that features just about everything I love about their Ratchet and Clank games just reborn in an entirely new way.

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

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

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 movement, customization, and style won’t find much better on the current consoles.

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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.

There’s a restless energy to Sunset Overdrive that is hard not to adore. The brightly colored, and easy to navigate, city of Sunset is saturated with entreating distractions. It might not be the most challenging game, but its racy writing and satire filled dialogue easily overshadowed this issue. Simply put, Sunset Overdrive is a beautifully bright and entertaining game.

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

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.

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 to be fun, and it makes that statement with a capital F.

Sunset Overdrive has so many amazing moments that I could just fill this entire review with them. It is hilarious, chaotic, stupid, brash, intelligent, explosive, and empowering, and revels in it at every opportunity. If everyone thought Master Chief would carry the Xbox One’s fortunes, then they’ve got another thing coming.

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 of angry robots.

Chaos. Flashy, blaring, satisfyingly cheeky chaos is what Sunset Overdrive offers, and it’s delivered in excess in a neon-soaked city wherein pretty much everything can be grinded, vaulted over, or swung upon.

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.

“In a world full of photorealistic games with serious tones, dark and dreary backdrops, comes a game full of colour, humour and more importantly, fun.”

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

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) is known for.  Over the past week or so we here at COG have been bouncing, traversing and running amok in the world of Sunset Overdrive and we think that most who take on this adventure, a description which doesn’t do this game justice, will be happy that they did.

Sunset Overdrive is a very different kind of game for Insomniac, but it trades well on all the experiences that brought the studio here. Fans will recognize its knack for inventive weaponry and nicely-designed traversal, but the two haven't been joined in this way before. Those elements make this rebellious teen something special that even its sometimes overwrought attitude can't dampen.

For the better part of a decade, Insomniac entrenched itself in war stories for its new console universes, taking players to the brink of extinction in Resistance, and to the race for resources in Fuse. Prior to creating these gritty experiences, Insomniac’s fingerprint was colorful, cheerful, and used to forge Spyro the Dragon, a coming-of-age tale set in a magical kingdom, and Ratchet & Clank, a journey into deep space that puts as much focus on the bond of friendship as it does blowing the living crap out of every evildoer in the galaxy. Insomniac comes full circle with Sunset Overdrive. It’s vibrant, fun, and though it occasionally waves a stern finger at corporations and pressing issues of the day, jokes always come first. I don’t think one story moment is free of a punchline or sight gag.The humor is entertaining, but the unconventional concoction of gameplay is the heart of Sunset Overdrive. On the one hand, it plays out like your typical super hero game, where city traversal is the backbone of most of the action. On the other hand, it’s a shooter, placing heavy emphasis on skillful running and gunning. On an unexpected third mutant hand, it’s a sprawling collect-a-thon, pushing players to hunt for hundreds and hundreds of hidden goodies spread across Sunset City’s colorful architecture.Although Sunset City is mostly painted in bright tones – almost looking like a set from Sesame Street – the atmosphere that hangs over it is that of death. You won’t see people driving to work or mingling on the sidewalks; most of them are dead or worse. But it wasn’t always this way.

Despite hitting a few speed bumps along the way, Sunset Overdrive's excellent and addictive gameplay are what stands out from the experience. It make take this gs a little while to get rolling but once the game hits its stride,you're in for one hell of a ride.