Sure, Sunset Overdrive offers a wide variety of aesthetic options, but the Amps you have equipped are what will truly make your character stand out. Amps are automatically activated at certain Style Meter levels.Īmps offer you another way to customize your character - in a way that actually impacts your gameplay. To fill the Style Meter quicker, you’ll want to rack up your Combo score, which basically takes into account chained traversal moves (a bounce, onto a grind rail, then wall running, etc.) and getting kills. Chaining together traversal moves while getting kills will help fill your Style Meter which, in turn, activates your Amps, special abilities that you can apply to your character and weapons (more on that in the next paragraph). You can also slow down your grinding speed by pressing LT so that you can focus on shooting the OD. To help with accuracy, Sunset Overdrive does have an automatic enemy lock-on system. Although it can take a bit of getting used to, shooting while on the move will save your life. Grinding rails and bouncing on cars are a great for dodging enemy attacks. Enemies in Sunset City hit hard you’re only defense is to make them miss by constantly being on the move. The ease of which you can travel the city is imperative because not only does it allow you to actually enjoy movement - which is important in an open world game - but it also works in tandem with the shooting portion of Sunset Overdrive.Īs fun as simply traversing the city can be, Sunset Overdrive’s gunplay relies heavily on movement. As long as you’re near a rail or car, you’ll almost always start grinding or bounce on it. And with realistic physics thrown out the window, the game’s movement is pretty forgivable. There’s definitely a learning curve, but once you master the mechanics you can chain together some pretty sweet traversal moves.
Cars and trees can be bounced on, building walls can be run on, and rails can be grinded on.
The city is built as if it were a playground, logical in design, but not in physics.
The mechanics are designed in a way that encourages constant movement, and Sunset City is constructed to allow total freedom. Sunset Overdrive’s most attractive quality is its fast, chaotic gameplay which emphasizes traversal. During a period in game development when most developers are using “next-gen” technology to come up with the biggest, baddest, most realistic way to tell a story, Insomniac Games is focused on one thing, and one thing only: polished gameplay that results in some damn good fun.
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