![]() ![]() Even in the quieter moments, you're always hurtling via some sort of vessel, be it a power-line, a helicopter or even skimming along water like a Jesus Lizard, as the Technicolor cartoon apocalypse sails by. It's a perpetual-motion machine (to use another Simpsons reference). For a start, I loved its endless momentum. Smore Action was a Walmart preorder bonus. ![]() Mowing through hordes of zombie-like monsters also brings to mind Dead Rising 3 (another Xbox One first-party title).īut Sunset Overdrive has enough to set it apart. Theres two more DLCs, Smore Action & The Bigfoot. It's a third-person, open-world action game with the irreverent, postmodern humour of Saints Row and the platform-traversing, power-line-surfing of the InFamous series. You play as one of these slackers (whose appearance, voice and gender you choose) your mission is to escape a city besieged by monsters. Slackers, slobs and outcasts get a second chance, and their skateboarding, shooting and survivalist skills are what matter, instead of stupid grown-up things such as rent and responsibilities. Part of the appeal of zombie apocalypse (or in this game, “mega-pocalypse”) stories is the idea of a reboot. ![]() However, unlike Poochie, Sunset Overdrive doesn't prevent a trip to the fireworks factory. Saturated with punky music, graffiti and wisecracks, it often reminded this player of Poochie, the unwelcome, shades-rocking dog from Itchy and Scratchy in The Simpsons. Sunset Overdrive is so heaving with pop-culture references, it feels fitting to open with one of our own.
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