Super fun game and the mechanics are sublime. The only problem I now have is that the game is so fast-paced and changes so quickly that my attention span after playing it is so low I can no longer play any other game that requires concentration much less hold down a job to pay my mortgage and feed...

First of all, i have to commend Insomniac for having the courage to make the game they wanted. its not easy breaking out of the cliche and taking a real risk when making a 3rd person shooter. You can tell from this game that a lot of love and creativity went into it.

You can see on first glance that Sunset Overdrive is going to be a lot of fun. The question that's piqued our interest since our first hands-on months ago is a simple one: how long that can that last? Turns out, it has an equally simple answer: quite a while.

Sunset Overdrive promised to bring the fun to Xbox One. Mission accomplished. It's an explosive, anarchic and angry thing. Free to create the game they wanted to make after Overstrike was butchered into a generic shooter by EA, Insomniac vented their frustration in an all-out orgy of sweary gory...

Utterly fantastic traversal and level design turns the city into a playground; Barmy intense combat and some great quests; Unpredictable; anarchic; colourful and punk personality (and soundtrack!; Excellent voice acting -- especially the female protagonist

Utterly fantastic traversal and level design turns the city into a playground; Barmy intense combat and some great quests; Unpredictable; anarchic; colourful and punk personality (and soundtrack!

Everything you need to know about this is explained with the first gun you're given.

A shameless focus on enjoyably daft combat and movement; The relentless comedy manages actual laugh out loud jokes

Everything runs full blast; all the time; and it gets tiring; Some of the characters are really; really bad

If you had to boil Sunset Overdrive down to a sentence it'd probably sound something like "Sunset Overdrive is probably what would happen if Jet Set Radio had a one night stand with Crackdown and then the offspring fell into a vat of Mountain Dew and Doritos.

I expected to hate this game. Since it was first revealed, Sunset Overdrive always looked a little more Poochy than Itchy & Scratchy, the sort of game with a persistently in-your-face attitude that was sure to drag.

Sunset Overdrive sure is a pretty package, running superbly and playing like a dream. Its focus on movement and combat makes for a really enjoyable open-world experience when you're moving from challenge to challenge.

+ Looks and runs superbly; + Movement through the city is great fun; + Plenty to do in a large; open world; + Those weapons

- The game's self-mocking and humour is tiring; - Main mission structure is messy and tedious

With its mash-up gameplay and electric kool-aid presentation, Sunset Overdrive has caught and held our attention since E3 2013. Can Insomniac, a studio known best for its work on PS3, deliver a quality Xbox One exclusive? Alan Bell has the verdict.

Bright, humorous, and engaging presentation; Weird and entertaining arsenal; A game that's happy to be a game; Serviceable story; Quality multiplayer

A bit of a learning curve

If blowing hordes of zombies up with rocket powered teddy bears is your thing then this game is right up your ally. One of the biggest downfalls this game has is that any kind of challenge falls off completely come mid game.