Sunset Overdrive

The movement once you get the hang of it and they give you the full suite, is actually pretty fun. Air boost into a rail, into a bounce, into a ground slam for bigger air to boost onto a wall run and repeat. It can be engaging when you actually decide to move around with some creativity. The boss fights seem to centre around the movement, and they shine a lot because of it. The gunplay, which is what Insomniac is usually known for at this point, is fine. There's some interesting stuff, but you don't really feel like anything is truly "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!", y'know? There's potential there, but the combat itself does get boring after a while, and the base defence missions for whatever reason sink the fps in this 2014 game set in 2027. The writing however, is honestly awful. Hyper cringe and insufferable, but that was the style at the time. However it really did grind on me pretty quickly. Meta to the point where I wanted to slam my head into a wall and I don't think I came away really liking any of the characters because of it? However there was a bit where I heard two scab enemies discuss philosophy, and it reminded me of Harry and Paul's intellectual scaffolders which annoyingly did get a chuckle out of me. Plus to fast travel, your character gets black-out drunk which I also annoyingly found funny the first time, it's creative at least. Also lots of technical issues, mainly big fps dips during the base defence and also in the docks area of the map? Also parts where dialogue would stay on screen no matter what I did. TLDR; Movement is fun, gunplay is okay but can get stale after a while, everything else is incredibly cringe. Play it for the gameplay only with voices muted, Can't really recommend in good faith.