Our First Real Look at Insomniac's Sunset Overdrive

As someone who is currently replaying the first three Spyro games, I think they should move camera control back to the shoulder buttons for Sunset Overdrive just to confuse and infuriate everyone.

Is this single player? It looks like it would be impossible to make multiplayer balanced.

But this could be fun. It'll be a long time before I get near it since I'm not going to be getting an Xbox One soon. But it'll be on my list for when I do.

Digging the look of it. Not sure if it will run smooth with all the crazy stuff going on though (Oh don't look at me like that: I don't care what hardware it's on, I just hope it doesn't chug along while everything explodes).

Also - Bowling Ball Gun @ 2:10 mark. Hell. Yes.

This looks incredibly boring to me. Not sure why everyone is so hyped about it. Nothing innovative, or exciting being done here.

The fact that this video has nearly 200 comments is--in and of itself--interesting.

That traversal looks slow and janky as balls, you'd think they would demonstrate it at it's best while the VO simultaneously makes grandiose claims about "velocity".

Also this appears to be Dead Rising for children. Boo.

EDIT: After a short read through the comments, I feel it's important to make it clear that my loyalty lies firmly in the PC camp. If I was going to root for a console I guess it would be the WiiU, because somebody has to.

Looks interesting, but I really hate the voice over for that trailer. Is the whole game going to have that same "attitude"? If so, count me out. There's nothing I hate more than 20-something hipster "Too-Cool-For-School" "badditude". The voice over is obviously playing up a certain role, but if I met anyone who spoke like that in real life I would have a VERY strong temptation to just punch them in the face.

Set up of the character factions reminds me of Bully

Yeeuuugghh! That fucking announcer doing his best DJ Atomica impression. Hope I can disassociate the game from that voice by the time it comes out.

Mehhhh....

If they are going for a sense of openness and freedom this trailer did not accomplish that for me. It felt closed in, trapped in the alleyways and streets, The R&C games felt more open than this. Again just from the trailer. I also agree with the general sentiment here of it feeling like Dead Rising meets Infamous. Hey, maybe that will be cool, but my hopes for an Insomniac resurgence has faded with this new trailer. Just felt kinda "meh". Lets see what they can show us at E3, thats what I got from this trailer, "more to come at E3, but this is the first look at our game".

@spraynardtatum: nope Xbone Exclusive

dead rising meets left 4 dead meets infamous

Looks like a great world and solid Insomniac style. I just don't really think it looked like something interesting to play.

It's kind of like how Crackdown was fun for the world traversal...but sucked for anything challenging and fun beyond that.

I was wondering what the fuck was with the terrible framerate and then I saw the xbone logo at the very end. Fair enough. Guess it won't be coming to PC or PS4 anytime soon as that MUST be the lead SKU otherwise they'd have run that shit on a PC that can handle say.. Dead Rising 2 levels of stuff going on?

I think he thinks that sony fanboys are jealous that this isn't coming to playstation. I for one have no interest in this game. Main Character seems uninteresting and there appears to be no real story. Just reminds me of the old PS2 games where you would get tons of meh 3rd person shooters.

It looks really cool but for a game about "velocity", it doesn't look very fast.

This is what I've been waiting for from Insomniac since Ratchet & Clank A Crack in Time. It looks bonkers, Crackdown meets Tony Hawk Pro Skater meets Ratchet & Clank.

FINALLY, everyone else just kept saying Dead Rising, but wow with the powers and enemies they showed, i thought I was watching the little kid version of Infamous 2!? From grinding on rails, being able to jump better off the cars, holding something looking just like the Amp, the enemy designs... He even launches a tornado at one point that looks like Cole's super ionic tornado! I thought it was like Infamous meets Ratchet or the Plants verses Zombies shooter. A little too cartoony for me, guns look fun, death thing looks funny, but Ratchet doesn't control well enough for me to think this will be a good shooter. but yeah, infamous. Holy hell.

I had forgotten what a next gen can do. It's like Dead Rising and inFamous had a mutant baby.

So three things about this trailer that came to mind while I was watching it. First off there's something about the gameplay that feels really bland to me for some reason. I started noticing it during the first parts where the character was running straight forward and shooting without aiming. Looking back I can sort of see it in their older games too. Maybe when a game involves a furry alien running around and shooting things with space guns it's easier to forgive but it's really pronounced here.

Second, I feel like the "Insomniac has wacky weapons" shtick sort of ran its course back in 2009. I can't really recall any weapon in their later games that felt really innovative, maybe the Groovitron Glove, but I feel like that showed up in like 2 other games after it made its debut. Basically saying "hey here's a bazooka but we put a teddy on it," doesn't really do it for me anymore.

Finally, eh this isn't really a criticism against the game but I'm gonna say that trailer was probably done on the Microsoft end of things. Mostly, cause it feels like it wasn't made by humans, and by that I mean that it feels like it was made using whatever corporate algorithm Microsoft uses to "maximize sales across their key demographics." Cheery voice over, check, generic surfer type music with bits of fakey dubstep mixed in, check..

@yummylee: Into the Nexus was pretty good but hilariously short, only 4 hours.

It just kind of looks like they took Ratchet cartoon looks and guns and put in Resistance enemies, complete with the yellow glowing weak spots.

This looks TOO good.

The movement and traversal animations look kind of stiff, but this is still more interesting to me than any of this year's PS4 exclusives. Guess the grass is always greener though

cringing like a MOTHERFUCKER over here brahs. cringing on da realz. CRRRRRIIIIINNNNNGGGGEEEE.

My brain went to Jet Set after seeing this, which I like. I hope the movement ends up being fluent.

@yummylee said:

The comment was never wrong, since I did state I wasn't just referring directly to GB comments but what I've seen elsewhere, and you acknowledged that. Furthermore, can you prove that not one single person in the GB community, who is a PS fanboy, won't be jealous? Whether they leave a comment or not, the notion is what amuses me. So even if I was referring to the GB community, and your response is "...What jealousy?", there's your answer. As for digging holes, we're both doing it by dragging this on, now aren't we?

@shtinky: lol right, whatever. You're clearly now just trying to dig out of the hole you've dug yourself by shifting the blame on to me for ''incorrectly assuming'' what you meant. My point has already been made in any case; you posted the inflammatory comment of ''the sony fanboy jealousy is delicious'' and I called you out on it for how inflammatory and most importantly wrong it is. No need to continue this further.

Incorrectly assume what you want; objectively, I didn't say that.

@brendan: Yeah, the whole narration has a kind of a dumb vibe to it... This doesn't happen often, does it?

I adore how colourful this is, couldn't be happier but I'm pretty blown away that it just looks like a horde mode with cool movement options.

Very interested to hear more about the actual gameplay.

Most of this looked cool, but I have to agree some of the "movement" going from wall to rail, not only looked a little off but seemed...slower than the CGI trailer.

I like the way it looks, but I agreed that movement looks a little slow judging from the video. Although this things are hard to determine until you are actually playing it. Guess I'll keep it on my radar for now...

This game looks alright, but this trailer was a little cringe inducing. "Hey, are you about 12 years old? Well this game is totally mature and not at all like those lamer shooters you make fun of on internet forums, y'know?" Ugghhhh.

You posted it in the comments, though... Without explicitly stating that you're referring to the other stuff you've seen on the internet or whatever, it's only natural why someone would assume you're referring to the comments on here.

Ehhhh... I'm not so sure about this yet.

I think the style is interesting, and it looks like something I should be into... but something about it just doesn't feel right. Not really sure what.

Although, if it plays well, it could still be really cool, anyway.

An incredibly slow moving inFamous + zombie shooter. Yeahhhhhhh.

At least it's colorful, and there's still time to fix some of those shoddy particle effects.

" Welcome to next gen respawning! "

Ugh, the way he said that just made me cringe. Anyway, after seeing more of this game, it actually looks pretty cool! Too bad it's Xbox One exclusive. Hopefully I'll be able to buy one before this comes out.

Also, man, the particle effects in some of these next gen games are amazing. Probably the biggest change I've seen so far from these new consoles in terms of graphics.

@yummylee said:

I never implied it was just in the comments section here in the first place, and the second paragraph is not like the opinions I was reading either.

Hopefully it gets better over time, but it's not lookin too good. Enemies seem non-responsive, movement seems clunky.

This looks damn sexy. If it remains an Xbox One exclusive, it'll further edge me over to finally picking one up.

looks interesting, dunno if i care for the "attitude"

Over under on how long it take to announce a title change and a more "gritty and grounded" look?

/snark

Exclusives are the devil. Wrong console, Insomniac. :\
Feh, I guess Infamous fills that role on PS4.