
What is Sunset Overdrive?
The city’s overrun with mutants. Problem? Not for you. Sunset Overdrive is an open-world playground of post-apocalyptic possibilities. Vault, grind & wall-run while using a deadly & unconventional arsenal. With hyper-agility, unique weapons, & customizable abilities, it rewrites the rules of shooters while delivering an irreverent adventure.

Not everyone in the city is trying to kill you, there are still some friendly faces left in town who you will join up with to survive the chaos of monsters, looters and robots. You have folk like Floyd, an ex-Fizzco scientist, who will be able to help you create amps or Walter who saves you from the horde of OD and teaches you how to fight for yourself.

Want to play as a girl or a guy? Sure, no problem. Body types and races are options as well. As you play the game you will come across different clothing lines that you are going to mix and match to best suit your own apocalypse style. There is no limit on how you can customise your character either. Have a big guy you want to put a cute dress on? What about adding that bushy beard to a female character? Go for it - the game won't stop you!

This is Sunset Overdrive’s 8 player co-op multiplayer mode. In Chaos Squad you take your campaign character into a multiplayer match with up to 7 other players and partake in a series of tasks in the open world of varying levels of “Chaos”. Once those missions have completed you and the rest of your squad must partake in a wave based survival mode where the difficulty and potential rewards for succeeding the mission are based on the Chaos Level of the missions you had completed earlier. Any gear or weapons earned will follow you back into your single player world once the mission is over!

Getting around Sunset City is one of the tenants of Sunset Overdrive. Whether your character is grinding (or hanging!) on rails, running on the sides of building or jumping on “bouncy” things in the environment you have many different ways to get around the city with more abilities opening up over time such as the ability to glide through the air for short periods of time.

While doing traversal and combat you will be adding points to your style meter. Filling the combo meter up will allow you to begin using your amps in the following order. Essentially, the better you move and fight the more powerful you will be. If you stop traversing or killing enemies, your style meter will decrease, and eventually those amps will deactivate.
Level 1 - Vanity, Character and Melee Amps
Level 2 - Weapon Amps
Level 3 - Epic Amps
Max Level - All the active amps become more effective

So what are amps then? Amps are a system that allows you to customise the way you want to play Sunset Overdrive. You have 5 different slots for amps that you can take with you into the game at any given time, 4 for your character, one per weapon. Vanity amps are cosmetic changes like a trail of wind that follows your character. Character amps will. Melee and Weapon amps will add modifiers to existing weapons like a tornado that trails your melee attacks or a chance at a nuclear explosions while firing a gun. Epic amps can cause flames to shoot out of jump pads after you use them or other wondrous things.
Polygon: 9
WiredAs a collection of mechanics and ideas, Sunset Overdrive is an impressive evolution of things Insomniac has been doing for a long time. Every part of Sunset Overdrive hooks into every other part somehow, and often in multiple ways, and it makes the whole shooting, grinding, wall-running package better for it. But the best thing about Sunset Overdrive is how it's unabashedly enthusiastic about what it is, in just about every way. That enthusiasm, and the freedom behind it, is contagious.
Gamespot: 8Finally, a Reason to Buy Xbox One
Eurogamer : 8Insomniac Games has crafted an excellent game in Sunset Overdrive. It's not without a few niggling issues, but you'll be too busy enjoying yourself to care. You can compare it to games like Crackdown, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and Ratchet and Clank, but by combining the best elements of those games into a single package and injecting it with an anything goes, rock and roll attitude, you'll never think of it as anything but a singular achievement that stands tall on its own merits. It's one of the best games on the Xbox One, and a refreshing shot of merriment.
Met dank aan de NeoGAF OT voor een groot deel van de plaatjes en tekst.Beneath the glorious tech, and once the writing relaxes a little, Sunset Overdrive's wonderfully lurid and heartfelt - a bit like playing an old 4AD album sleeve. If you get that reference, you'll probably get this, too.
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