S03E05 - Sunset Overdrive

In a world dominated by cash-grab, minimum-risk, soul-less, run-of-the-mill, board-of-directors-satisfying, hackneyed, repetitive, loot-box-laden, share-holder-pleasing, item-selling, micro-transaction-loving, DLC-shoving video game titles; it’s always a very pleasing, refreshing and quite honestly, surprising moment when you are presented with a sweet sweet anomaly, an exception to that somber reality: A passion project done by some of the best people in the business. You might wonder just how such project would’ve been greenlit in the current zeitgeist, and the answer would be, probably just because Xbox was extremely desperate back then, and also, possibly out of spite, you know, to Sony.  Whatever the reason, we’re just happy that we got “Sunset Overdrive”, one of the most underrated titles of the last generation which pulled us out of that clichéd formula of: let’s-not-change-it-if-it-sells. 

Gotta pay respect where it’s due, and it was a bold move by Insomniac to develop such an outrageous game, which was, unfortunately, ultimately a commercial failure; though through no fault of its own. However, perhaps this failure paved the way for their next title, “Marvel’s Spider-Man”, which took off like a rocket.So  join us with a returning guest, Mohammad (from "S02E11 - Saints Row"), in this episode as we discuss and pay the aforementioned respect to Insomniac with a focus on "Sunset Overdrive".