Sunset Overdrive Hasn't Aged Well, But It's Still Damn Good Fun
Sunset Overdrive is a beloved little gem. Whenever Insomniac Games’ Xbox One exclusive is brought up in conversation a bunch of people will jump in to defend it - showering praise upon its creative parkour, fast-paced combat, and batshit humour that never once tries to take itself seriously. Even ahead of release, fans were enraptured by its colourful tone in a market filled with bland shooters and predictable blockbusters. It rocked the boat.
It’s been almost eight years since the game came out, and I remember getting an Xbox One bundle with a white console and digital download of the zany open world adventure for Christmas mere months after I started university. I then had to lug that bastard and all my other belongings across the country on a train journey because my parents weren’t willing to give me a lift back to campus. Love my family, but this article isn’t about them, it’s about a lovable little gem called Sunset Overdrive that I’m finally getting around to playing after all these years. I dabbled with it back in the day, but now I’m jumping in for realsies.
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Sunset Overdrive is cringe. It made my skin crawl back in 2014 with its abrasive humour and super hip dialogue, but now it makes me want to throw my Xbox Series X into the nearest road whenever a character dares to speak. It isn’t well written, and the narrative is awfully basic, but all of these qualities lend themselves to everything the game is trying to be. It doesn’t care if you’re busy laughing at it, because Sunset Overdrive spends every waking moment laughing at itself. It’s an exercise in millennial counterculture that pokes fun at our generation at its very worst
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