Sunset Overdrive 2014

Is it still worth playing?

FizzCo's energy drink turns Sunset City into mutants, and you, a FizzCo janitor, are inside the quarantine, in this open world game from October 2014 for the Xbox One, with a PC version in 2018. You grind rails, bounce off cars and run along walls, and a style meter climbs for every kill made in the air and every second off the pavement, powering the Amps that make weapons nastier. The weapons are jokes: the TNTeddy fires teddy bears strapped to dynamite, and there are fireworks, toy helicopters, a gun that shoots records and a flaming bowling ball one. A punk theme runs through the sound and the look, the character pauses the credits to complain about the ending, and every respawn is a gag instead of a loading screen. Touching the floor is what the rails still punish today.