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Check out more of Sunset Overdrive in action

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Sunset-Overdrive

I have no idea if Sunset Overdrive will play as well as it looks, but hot damn, I likes what I sees so far. There’s just something so vibrant about the game, that reminds me that style can triumph over realism easily in the visual department.

 

In the video above, Insomniac Games CEO/creative director Ted Price and game director Marcus Smith, and game director Drew Murray speak about how they pitched the game originally. "We’ve learned over the years not to be afraid of failure,” Price says.

We fail all the time, whether it’s on a grand scale or a micro scale. But the key is never to stop trying different things, because then you stagnate and you don’t learn from your failures. And certainly on this project, we tried a lot of things that didn’t work.

That, and to not allow your new game franchise to be designed with focus group testing in mind, right other Insomniac game Fuse? One thing that I do rather dig, are the respawn animations in Sunset Overdrive. They’re a nice nod to the immortality of gaming, and the animations that come with them made me chuckle.

“We have these crazy, crazy death animations, where every time you die in the game, we surprise you by respawning you in a way we guarantee you that you haven’t seen in any other game,” Price said.

Sunset Overdrive is an Xbox One exclusive for later this year. And it looks mighty fine with that entire style and substance system in play.

Last Updated: May 14, 2014

17 Comments

  1. The comments of this article will be like this: Xbox One LOL… Door stop LOL…Piece of crap LOL…Nobody will buy that console LOL… PS4 teh bestest LOL… Kinect LOL LOL LOL… No one cares LOL!!!

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    • Jonah Cash

      May 14, 2014 at 18:25

      Uhm no actually go back a few days when the other video of this game was released… Quite a few of us said that this is the first game we would buy a bone for!! This game looks like a lot of fun, and if it plays as it is in this video I would consider buying a Bone!! Get your facts straight!! And yes we pretty much all hate the Kinect, don’t you?

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      • Tulipdame

        May 16, 2014 at 12:52

        I like kinects voice commands, but this could have been integrated into the remote or console+headset or something. The rest of kinect couldn’t bother me less.

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        • Jonah Cash

          May 17, 2014 at 10:22

          They could really have put the voice commands in the remote, I actually think Sony should think about it!!

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    • Hammersteyn

      May 14, 2014 at 18:51

      Now you are just copying and pasting comments 😛

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    • CAE9872

      May 15, 2014 at 08:34

      Some of us like games – the console is irrelevant truth be told. The pity in truth is that the One was never released here making it very difficult to make fair comparisons. We can only go on what the rest of the world is saying, bar the very few people that may have one (or is that One).

      And that is all down to Microsoft strategy which I disagree with…but that’s their call.

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      • Tulipdame

        May 16, 2014 at 12:53

        True. Games matter, not the platform of choice. I imported a One and I love it!

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        • CAE9872

          May 16, 2014 at 14:10

          I am extremely jealous!!! I considered importing one but ended up deciding against it. I did buy a PS4 – very happy with it. But I will probably get a One at some point.

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    • Tulipdame

      May 16, 2014 at 12:51

      I saw this and I was like…where’s my reply? I was slow…now I know…you copy and pasted.

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  2. Patryn

    May 14, 2014 at 18:38

    Looks like it could be a lot of fun, makes me think of a more frantic version of timesplitters

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  3. Kensei Seraph

    May 15, 2014 at 08:28

    Why is there no video for me?

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    • VampyreSquirrel

      May 15, 2014 at 08:38

      Well… there isn’t one for me either.

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  4. CAE9872

    May 15, 2014 at 08:32

    I am hearing great thing about it. Definitely a possible reason for buying an Xbox One for. Well that and Forza 5, Dead Rising 3, etc. I wonder if Titanfall may come to SA when the One releases here?

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    • Tulipdame

      May 16, 2014 at 12:54

      I doubt it. And Dead Rising 3 is awesome!

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      • CAE9872

        May 16, 2014 at 14:11

        I take it you didn’t import a copy of Titanfall then? I was just wondering if it would work at all – in theory it should?

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