Sunset Overdrive

Plot synopsis:
On July 13, 2027, FizzCo releases its new energy drink, OverCharge Delirium XT (also known as OCD), exclusively in Sunset City. In an attempt to sell OCD faster, FizzCo skipped health regulation protocols, in turn causing anyone who drinks it to turn into a violent boil-bodied mutant known as an Overcharge Drinker (OD). In order to cover up the deception, FizzCo claims that a virus has broken out and quarantines the whole city, preventing anyone from entering or exiting. The player, a FizzCo employee who works in the sanitation division, is saved from an attacking OD by Walter, a fellow survivor; the player is unaffected by the drink, as they were not allowed to attend the launch party for OCD, later referred to as "Horror Night".
Upon learning that Walter is creating a plane to escape the quarantine, the player obtains the aid of Sam and the Oxfords, a group of rich but lazy geniuses. After multiple errands, the Oxfords build a propeller to complete the plane. The player joins Walter in his plane to escape the city and reveal the truth about the outbreak. At the last second, Walter notices an invisible wall preventing their escape and pushes the player out of the plane before dying in the subsequent crash.
Still planning to escape, the player aids Troop Bushido, scouts living in a samurai museum, and the Fargarths, a group of larpers. In thanks, the two groups design and build a ship out of garbage which tricks the FizzCo sensors and allow them past. As the player is about to escape, they learn that FizzCo robots are attacking the Oxfords and Troop Bushido in order to kill all witnesses. The player returns to Sunset City and rescues the survivors. Sam informs the player that there is a deadly superweapon in FizzCo headquarters, which the player is able to break into after obtaining the help of Las Catrinas, a trio of cheerleaders caring for the children's ward of a hospital, by recruiting a band fronted by King Buzzo (voiced and mocapped by the real Melvins singer) to perform for the children.
The player rallies the four factions to attack FizzCo headquarters, and attempts to destroy FizzCo HQ by riding a giant bottle of OCD into it (reminiscent of Dr. Strangelove). The player is killed in the blast, and the factions mourn them. However, the player stops the credits rolling after this scene to complain how depressing the ending is, and decides to change it. The player survives in this ending, and it is revealed that the FizzCo building is a robot that is meant to destroy the city to cover up the OCD outbreak. The player destroys the robot and has milk and crackers with the other survivors. After the credits, however, computers in the FizzCo headquarters automatically activate a protocol sending FizzCo helicopters full of OCD around the world.

Tags: violence

Review:
absolutely insane and out of control. the year is 2027 and fizzco has released a contaminated energy drink called overcharge XT that turns anyone who drinks it into crazed mutants. I'm gonna tell you, this is one of the most insane, crazy, ridiculous, extreme, over the top, bloody, gruesome, brutal, out of control games I've ever played and I absolutely LOVE IT lol, if you've seen crank 2, you're gonna love this game, you might as well call this game crank 3: overdrive since it's so freakin insane lol. If sunset overdrive was ever made into a movie, it would be an R Rated action comedy thriller on crystal meth lol, I highly recommend this game to anyone who loves pure action, pure gore, and outrageous humor, they won't be disappointed at all.. Good game and Very good exkluzivitka na xbox one. Good game from insomniac games Ratchet and clank, marvel spider-man, spyro and sunset overdrive my comment. sunset overdrive. sunset overdrive is a open world game it is very accurate at the story line and beyond the wide array of weapons and stunts this game is one of the most funniest and most animated game made for Xbox one. Although many of the story lines is based around the mutants and gangsters these are called OD and you will discover different types of mutants further in the game the gangsters are called scabs. And they are the secondary force which control the city although these there are fizz co robots which control the island by killing their enemy which are human and making the island theirs altogether the ending has a big cliff hanger at the end. And possibly this is leading to a sequel or a add on for the cliff hanger at the end of the game. Altogether this game is a amazing game if you love exploration, action and animation this game also is a bit too colorful and the story line gets a bit random near the end but altogether this is a great game to recommend of 2014.. Luxicon's Game Reviews: Sunset Overdrive. Sunset Overdrive, by far, is one of the most chaotic and intensely fun video games on the Xbox One. What other game do you have this much fun just moving around the city through these insane, almost ludicrous ways? Some can say Prototype or the Infamous Series can give you the same feel, but it's nothing like you get with this.The story is like that of most Post-Apocolyptic games, I.E. Something is released and jumpstarts the Awesome-Pocolypse(Yes, that is what they call it.), Mainly the soft drink Overdrive, the newest product by the Fizzco Corporation. Fizzco is basically Coca-Cola if they sunk all of their marketing in Fanta Orange while also merging with the bloody IMC from Titanfall. You play as a lone, vaguely late-teenaged, early twenties employee at Fizzco, where Overcharge is being released to the public of insanely idiotic and stereotypically teenaged......teenagers. You're job sucks and you're stuck picking up the trash. Soon, one of the teenagers who drank the new beverage starts acting sick, before becoming an OD, which are this game's version of either mutants or zombies that other games would have. Thus, Horror Night begins, and soon, everything goes straight to hell as the Apocalypse is kickstarted in Sunset City.But it's an Awesome-Pocolypse, and everything is out to kill you. Whether it's the OD, the Scabs which are basically this game's version of Raiders or Gang Members, and even a bunch of Fizzco Security robots that are programmed to kill all survivors in an effort to cover their tracks. Sunset City is now a constant war zone between each of the three enemy factions. In many cases, it's you versus the whole world, as you use your arsenal of almost limitless possible ways to smash the hordes of enemies. Along with just you and some ex-Fizzco employees , you also team up with other factions of friendlies, which include a Boy Scouts troop that have adopted a Samurai way of honor, a bunch of Oxford students held up in what I can assume is Freddy Fazbear's Pizzaria, and a heavily delusional bunch of LARPers at war with some Scabs. (Being a LARPer myself, I was personally cracking up at everything they did in their little society.) Each have their own headquarters, complete with other characters who give away their own personal side quests. quests you can complete in order to get exclusive faction gear to add to your collection of outfits and melee weapons. And, along with all the memorable factions, some enemies that are either Scab or Fizzco are actually kind of complex. Well, complex for a game that's littered with clichés and flat character archetypes. Villains like Fizzie, Fizzco Mole, Emperor Norton, and King Scab are some of the most despicably evil kinds of villain seen in a video game so far. Some may find this kind of corny and cliché, but dealing with the subject and joke of the game, I found it as a perfect level of ham. But then again, what kind of villain were you expecting from a game that literally starts with the word "APOCALYPSE" written entirely in fire and explosions?However, while the villains are well casted in their factions, I can't have any nicer things to say about the other, main faction you have to defeat most of the game, which is the OD themselves. Not only do they look generic compared to most of the surprisingly original look of both the Scabs and the Fizzco Robots, many look so uncreatively similar to one another. I'm not talking about a horde of OD that you fight, I mean the 'Alternative' kinds of enemy types, like Blowers, Gunkers, and Spawners. All of them look so much like the original OD, and it's not like the original OD were really original in the first place. Hell, the poppers are just OD with bulging, glowing puss bags that explode on contact. Even Emperor Norton, who becomes a giant dragon, looks like any other kind of OD you fight in the game. It's a very big missed opportunity, and it broke what could've been some awesome looking monster designs.Not only that, many of the wackier guns you use in the game lack any real punch. The only guns worth using and leveling up are guns that either are practical like the Dirty Harry(A Magnum), the AK-FU(An assault rifle), the Fizzbot Rifle(Another rifle), The Hand Dragon Cannon(A miniature grenade launcher), The Flaming Compensator(A Shotgun with fire), and the Excalamune(A pretty badass sword you get near the end of the game). The rest of them, have almost zero punch when dealing with a massive horde of enemies like the OD and the Scab. Hell, The Fizzbot Rifle is required if you want to beat some of the Fizzco enemies. The Vinyl Gun doesn't even have any real other then for bragging rights. These two things, followed by a relatively short play time for the main game(It's only about 5 hours to beat) bring this almost legendary game down. Which is why, I'm giving this gameA B-Ranking. It's a great game and an absolute blast to play, but it's still crippled with ineffective weapons, uncreative enemies, and a short actual main game. If the game were a bit longer, the OD were more creative, and if more of those weapons were effective and useful, then this could've been one of the greats. However, as it is now, it's very average and only a B.