#fizzco

[kichimiangra]

Commission of the player from Sunset Overdrive (The boxart design) and a resurrected Fizzie, making use of a Fizzie balloon and a Fizzco robot for parts.

They're prolly just having a casual conversation with no Foe-Yay undertones at all. Prolly about the weather I dunno.

[actual-superboydraws]

Drink OverCharged Delirium XT or Die, Asshole!

[anthonyonrequest]

Sunset Overdrive Review:

If you grew up playing games like Jak and Daxter or Ratchet and Clank, then you understand what it is to dive head first into a world full of whacky characters and over the top weaponry that makes for optimum comic-book destruction. That's what we get in Sunset Overdrive, the incredible third-person shooter that is a jacked-up adult version of Insomniac Games most notorious properties. Bringing the zany antics into this fast-paced open world shooter makes for some of the most fun gameplay we've had at On Request Magazine, and even though this game is a couple of years old, we had to share our thoughts.

The game follows the player, an anonymously named character who is one of many survivors of a mutant outbreak in Sunset City. When an energy drink called Overdrive from a company the player works for, FizzCo, starts turning the people of the city into mindless mutants called OD, or Overdrive Drinkers, the player must use his sarcastic humor and natural abilities to fight the creatures, as well as bloodthirsty survivors who take advantage of the chaos known as Scabs. Navigating the city and looking for a means of escape, this futuristic shooter set in the year 2027 features a ruthless company looking to cover up their mistake by blocking all access out of the city, cutting off communications, and sending hordes of killer robots to destroy all evidence of their failure. It's up to the player to use their arsenal of creative weapons and charm to save and unite the unique survivors of the city, in hopes of escaping.

One of our favorite parts of this game is the non-stop pop-culture references used in not only the dialogue, but visually in respawns and landmarks, such as when the player arrives back in battle in a phone booth and air guitars in a similar manner to Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. This combined with the constant movement the player has when jumping, gliding, grinding and running through this colorful city, and the endless amount of missions and challenges that the player can complete outside of the main story, make this one of the most creative games on Xbox One today. We hope another entry in this series happens someday, as we give it a 10/10 score, and look forward to hours and hours of more gaming in this fantastic world.

[thepixeljunkies]

My awesome avatar in Sunset Overdrive.

The actress doing the voice for the girl is SO MUCH BETTER than the jackass doing the voice for the boy.  She is so badass.

[babygotbell]

Stream of (Sunset Overdrive) Consciousness

I have played a lot of Sunset Overdrive in the past few days. I have said, and stand by saying, that this game is worth everything I paid for an Xbox One because it’s like being able to play around inside my own head - i.e. a gaudy, kind of tasteless, neon lit, awesome wasteland full of loud music and lurking monsters. As such I decided to do a rough stream-of-conciousness review of it. Be warned that this is also very self indulgent. I am capable of looking outwards, I promise. 

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This character creator has my hair! I lovethis game! No game has ever had my hair before! 

… Man, my hair is so stupid.

Alright, we’re on a train - oh wow, no preamble here, run away run away… crikey, these mutants are generic looking OH MY GOD I can jump like a goddamn flea on speed! When do I get to grind along the edge of things, let me do that now. Oh, very prompt, thank you. Wheeeeeeee! Taste my rail-dust, monsters that look like mac and cheese. Hmm, a penis-shaped shotgun that explodes things. And to think this game had been so subtle so far!

This city is really pretty in an eye-watering way ooh signposting things in the environment with the environment itself, very cool. Very meta. I bet it’s going to do a lot of stuff like that. Meta meta meta. Cool cool cool.

Okay, so the set up is that this energy drink is screwing everyone up then. Man, who pounds energy drinks at a corporate-event concert like they’re having a good time? Is this a metaphor for ecstasy? Don’t take E, kids, you’ll become an unrecognisable monster. And energy drinks. Don’t drink them, either. Whoops, cut scene over.

Defend the base? I don’t want to defend the base! You defend the base! In every game I’ve ever played how come I’m the only one who is halfway competent? Oh, because then it wouldn’t be a game, I guess. Ahaha these preppy kids are just like everyone I was at University with, fetch-quest your own bottled water you butt, and how come I was never invited to your parties – too late, this woman will sell me a feather-boa to wear, I’m all about her now, oh my god what is this monstrosity made of a giant pile of rubbish trying to eat me? Oh, standard trash-mob generator, I see.  So we will get escalating types of mutants to fight and – wait robots? Where did the robots come from? What is going on here?! Oh man I died.

Wait, no I didn’t. Did I just step out of the phone booth from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure? Because if so then that is the best thing that has happened to me ever. Doesn’t matter, doesn’t matter; work on filling up your style meter again because that will activate the lovely upgrades and make this gun that fires records fire electrified records. Tee hee, the noise it makes when you bounce on something is funny. Boing. Boing. Boinggggggg. Oh okay, this phone booth lets me play online with other people. Anarchy. This is why we need government.

Okay I need to stop now. This is too much. Ratchet & Clank. Saints Row. Borderlands. Some kind of weird flavour that tastes a bit like Crazy Taxi. Bright colours. Loud music. Explosions. Pop culture. General seediness. I’m getting over-stimulated. This gun fires exploding teddy bears. I need an adult. I need an adult!

10/10 Alice Bells

8/10 Normal People

[tokyovigilante1]

So this is what happens when I have Sunset Overdrive and Five Nights on the brain! I originally thought of this as just a simple, fun mash-up, but the more I worked on it, the more I actually began concocting a backstory for a (hypothetical) mission involving the animatronics at Sasquatch and Friends: The animatronics for Sasquatch and Friends are defective Fizzco bots repurposed for entertainment purposes. By day, they work as intended, but by night, because of a system glitch, they revert to their old programming, hunting anything and everything in sight. As the player, you're stuck inside with these bots for "6 nights" (for the purposes of gameplay, I'd say six minutes) and your goal is to avoid being spotted by these bots and surviving til morning. OR Just shoot the damn things because YOU HAVE AWESOME GUNS! WHY NOT USE THEM?!

[criminalfiendplays]

Playing the first mission which you can replay when going back through missions,

This mission is One Man’s Trash.

Give it a watch, let me know what you think.

Music: K DREW - Circles