Unfinished: Sunset Overdrive 05/15/2014

Liking the colourful art style, as potential but I'd need to see more.

This. I need more speed in my action games.

Having played every R and C, it kinda sucks that it's cousin is an XB1 exclusive.

So wait....did Danny get the job?

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Resistance enemies in a R&C game

Does anyone else feel like just about everything happening in this game should be happening faster? The traversal stuff seems like it could be so much better if it was faster.

I was really excited for this game when it was announced, but man that traversal is slow as mud. It's turning me off to be honest. I hope there are some combo's you can do to speed things up. Or if an Insomniac employee is watching this... SPEED THAT SHIT UP.

Seriously, if I start wanting fast travel in a game where you advertise traversal to be awesome, you're doing something wrong. That something seems to be pure slowness.

Seems to move really really slow, and the trail fails to make it look quicker lol. I hope it ends up being funner than it looks, but it's not looking to great. Really starved for games on the consoles, so ya.. please get better!

I busted out laughing pretty bad at Danny's nosewipe.

man... i'm not super interested in this, but consider how few xbox one exclusive games are coming out, i feel like i have to get it. :/

Tan level = Irish

Hard to get a feel for this game just from a bunch of B roll with no narrative or context, but this seems to have a ton of potential.

I always assumed this game would be faster...

Looks neat though!

I'm amazed to see that this game actually seems to play like its reveal trailer made it look. That's great!

For all its issues, I definitely feel like the XBO has the best exclusive lineup going right now. We'll see how that shapes up!

E3's gonna be great this year.

This looks really boring and repetitive in my opinion. The art style is saying "WE'RE CRAZY!" but the actual gameplay is saying "LOOK HOW BORING THIS IS!".. I pass.

Imagined the slow grind speed was to make it easier to actually hit anything and give you time to figure out what you want to do next. But then Brad said it's pretty generous with the autoaim while you're grinding, and the trails look straight silly at times. But I don't know, I haven't played the thing, and as you may know, it is unfinished.

It feels like there ought to be some sort of turbo boost you gain access to though. Akin to the thing in Infamous where you lean forward to go faster. Seems ideal really if the player has more control over the speed and can vary it according to what they want to do.

he already HAS a job...

I don't even know what they are going for here. They've got realistic but cartoony visuals which end up looking bland. The grinding and movement seems awkward and going around in a circle while holding the fire button seems like it will become boring extremely quickly. I'm not sure what else they can do to make it more varied. It just looks strange.

There's something about the audio with the game that makes it seem bad. Like there is NO sound other than shooting pretty much.

- Logical Consistency? Low on the priority list.

Is a game-buying bullet point for me.

Hire O'Dwyer!

i have the exact same feeling.

Late to the Danny love, but he's fucking awesome.

@brad From the bottom of my heart: Pick a modern Ratchet and Clank game and play it.

Everyone should play at least one good Ratchet & Clank game.

Yeah, as some people have said before, the game seems to be trying really hard to look imaginative and wacky, but it seems rather slow and generic. Granted it's unfinished, but still, they are calling their transversal movement "velocity" and at no point in the game do I ever feel that velocity.

Also.. I hadn't thought about this, but the energy drink making people into zombies? New DmC, Virility? even those enemies were more inspired that these though.

Honestly, this is less imaginative than ratchet and clank.

Yay, Danny!
Yay, Sunset Overdrive!
Boo, XbOne exclusive!

Stop making me want an Xbox One and start making an open world Ratchet game!!

@lausebub: Basically, Danny is an intern for GB now. :D

Also, he's getting his own portion of the Supply Drop stream this weekend, which is awesome. I think Jeff is just going to wind up stealing him from GS. We'll take Danny, they can have, uh, Dave Lang?

I fucking love Danny, so glad that hes going to be on the set even after they hire someone.

Also, lose the motion blur on Sunset Overdrive, pls!

Just hire that beautiful Irishman already.

Yay, more Danny. I enjoy him a lot on Alt F1.

Yeah no shit, hes on enough anyway. I mean, there was a tumblr answer from Jeff that basically implied they would probably hire him if he applied. Seems like he has a decent amount of authority at Gamespot so maybe he doesn't want to give that up for what may be a step down.

It looks like it could be fun to play, but the whole vibe is putting me off. AWESOMEPOCALYPSE, technology to keep up with the latest "memes," just...ugh.

Go watch the trailer they put out. It sounds like Sonic the Hedgehog telling you how rad and self-aware this game is.

Just came back to chime in saying that Danny is awesome and it's good to see him on more and more GB stuff.

I really like the way this looks! It's very pretty and colorful and the movement seems speedy enough for me. I'd like to hear more music and see som more interesting enemies, but this game is the most tempting thing on the Xbone in the foreseeable future for me.

Amazed Brad never played the Ratchet and Clank games. It "looks more interesting" now that it doesn't have a "character"? I don't really get what he's trying to say, was he just never into the humor and characters that he saw glimpses of from Ratchet?

I hope when its released I am able to grind faster, I realy want a jetset radio shooter :p

That sound effect when you level up is pretty damn good.

Although that disc weapon sound is horrible. :/

I feel like I need to see what an average mission is before I get a feel for this. The combat and traversal looks ok, a bit slow and easy maybe

Weak B-Roll. No UI, No actual objectives being shown. Totally crafted gameplay demos. Pretty un-interesting to watch. Game might be good, but I have no way of knowing from what was shown here.

I sure hope this looks better come release time, because it looks really flat / derived of any real impact at the moment.

At least the colour palate and particle effects look nice

I am at 00:13 right now. And i will leave this video unfinished. because it can only go downhill from here.

Watching this is like watching someone dick around in any open world game, which doesn't do anything for me as I never am a fan of doing that. I'm gonna have to see what some missions and objectives are like before I can really judge.

Is this Infamous?

I agree with this.

so much out of sync audio lately... c'mon guys :(

I really cant stand the radical 'tude, awesomepocolypse make me puke. I still think the traversal stuff looks suuuuper slow too. At the end of the day though, I will never be an Xbone owner, so my opinion doesn't really matter.

I'm real excited for this. Like, "gonna buy an xbox for this game" excited. Hopefully they show more of it at E3. Also those goofy ass respawn animations are great.