Live Magazine February Issue February 2014 | Page 46

PREVIEW

SUNSET OVERDRIVE
Welcome to the Awesomepocalypse.
It is the near future. Your city has
been blown to smithereens. Its population has been killed, or turned into
hideous mutants. You have an overpowered arsenal at your disposal,
and one mission in mind:

Clank, you shouldn’t be surprised.
Your unnamed hero must traverse
the wrecked city, avoiding nasty mutants and fiery death as you try to
figure out how to send these demon
spawn back to where they came
from.

Deal with it.

Thankfully you have an arsenal of
whacky and conventional weapons
at your disposal to combat these
nasty intruders, with power ups scattered throughout the game helping
you make them ridiculously overpowered and capable of killing everything nearby (cause let’s face it,

No, this isn’t Detroit. This is the
newest title from Insomniac games,
Sunset Overdrive. Despite the title
sounding like a 1980’s arcade racer,
Sunset Overdrive is far from it. Set
in the unnamed city that your char-

weaponry; from a record shooting
crossbow to cans of fizzy drink that
seemingly cause your shotgun to
produce mini nukes. One can only
assume that the rest of your arsenal
will be just as capable of upgrading to overpowered munitions; my
guess is the BFG will launch mix
tapes of Kesha and Pit Bull.
Exploration of the city focuses a
lot on the agility of your character;
wall running, acrobatic leaps and
bounds, ziplines, and much more.
Don’t get too cocky leaping from
wall to wall though, there isn’t any

“EXPLORATION OF THE CITY FOCUSES A LOT ON THE AGILITY OF YOUR CHARACTER;
WALL RUNNING, ACROBATIC LEAPS AND BOUNDS, ZIPLINES, AND MUCH MORE.
DON’T GET TOO COCKY LEAPING FROM WALL TO WALL THOUGH...”
acter lives in, it looks to be the most
light hearted end of the world title
we’ve seen in a while. Then again,
considering this is the company that
brought us Spyro and Ratchet and

who wants a fair fight?) it also appears you aren’t alone in your escapades, as the trailer reveals a few
friends helping you along the way
with some rather unconventional

bales of hay to break your fall in
this one. Just streets of angry, mutated…er, mutants. A big city like
this, despite its broken and decaying state, is bound to hold hours of