Sunset Overdrive
Sunset Overdrive is a colorful, mutant-slaying third-person open-world game from Insomniac Game and Blind Squirrel Games, published by Xbox Game Studios. Players have a whole host of unique weapons, including harpoons and dynamite, to slay mutants with, as well as the ability to traverse and scale the city now under siege by a new enemy.
Sunset Overdrive
- Released
- October 28, 2014
- Developer(s)
- Insomniac Games
- Publisher(s)
- Microsoft Game Studios
- Genre(s)
- Third-Person Shooter , Open-World
- Engine
- Insomniac Engine v. 4.0
- ESRB
- M For Mature 17+ due to Blood and Gore, Drug Reference, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Violence
- How Long To Beat
- 10 Hours
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