Sunset Overdrive takes place in the world of Sunset City in the year 2027. Fizzco is releasing their latest energy drink and decides to give their home city the first taste. The world quickly gets infected as they realise that drinking OverCharge Delirium XT means that you're turned into a mutant.

Beautifully Crafted Insomniac World; Customisation Options; Satisfying Gunplay

Lack Of Punishment; Delivery Missions Are 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

Sunset Overdrive feels liberating in many ways; from the ridiculous character options allowing hilariously freakish combinations, to the...

Traversal and combat; Interesting vibrant world; Impressive amount of action on screen

Comedy mileage may vary; Initially overwhelming

is big, gorgeous, and a hell of a lot of fun. Never has getting from point A to point B in an open-world game provided so much enjoyment. It provides some of the most fun, frantic, and fantastic gaming I've had on the Xbox One.

Sense of style; Amazing traversal; Great combat; Smart upgrade system

Familiar mission structure

When Sunset Overdrive asks you to go across town, you don't start running on foot or carjack some poor chump. You vault onto the top of a storefront awning, bounce two stories up into the sky, dash through the air, then stick the landing on some telephone wires and grind across them like your...

Traversing through Sunset City is a blast; Vibrant graphics and clever overall style; A fantastic player character

Gunplay is inconsistent and sometimes clunky; Trap-based defense missions feel entirely needless; Some hit-or-miss moments of sophomoric humor

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

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