History VideoGame / SunsetOverdrive

* TheExile:
** Just Kim was kicked out of Troop Bushido before Horror Night because she [[{{Pyromaniac}} accidentally set fire to a group of campers.]]
** When you first meet Troop Bushido, the Player accidentally gets 4Kim expelled for agreeing that Norton is a tool. [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal This is a contributing factor in her aiding you behind his back to find Troop Master Bryllcream.]]

* BambooTechnology / {{MacGyvering}}: Most of the weapons the player uses seems to be hobbled together from various scrap:
** The [=TnTeddy=] is a notable example as the player is shown actually creating the thing.
** The [=LARPers=] use crossbows made of wire hangers.

The game was released on October 2014 on Platform/XboxOne, and a UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows port was released on November 2018.

* HandicappedBadass: By the time you find Troop Master Bryllcream in the game proper, he has lost all four limbs due to having to [[AutoCannibalism "do whatever it takes"]] to survive. This does not prevent him from being an incredibly useful ally in the least.

* ScoutOut: The members of Troop Bushido are a troop comprised mostly of older teenagers/young adults, with a rule system based on Japanese Samurai.

* BrilliantButLazy: The Oxfords are a faction of trust fund kiddies who happen to be geniuses who mostly just sit around texting on their phones and refuse to help you unless you get them stuff that they lost outside of their bases.

** bowling balls

* ArmsDealer: Two Hat Jack builds most of your weapon arsenal and sells them to you for Overcharge cans.

* AmazonBrigade: Las Catrinas are a small group of powerful ninja cheerleaders that the player meets near the end of the game.

* ActionGirl:
** 4Kim manages to take out an entire train car of scabs by herself.
---> "Note: Don't mess with 4Kim."
** The Las Catrinas are an entire faction of action girls.
** Of course, we couldn't discount the player character herself.

The game was released on October 2014 on UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and a UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows port was released on November 2018.

* ShortRangeShotgun: The Hotty Shotty is a powerful handheld street sweeper shotgun, but it's not particularly great while bouncing or grinding.
** The Flaming Compensator, on the other hand, is a perfectly fine as a mid-ranged weapon.

* SpicyLatina: Las Catrinas' Esperanza, who is a Puerto Rican cheerleader/ninja. The rest of the faction is also composed of them.

* VulgarHumor: Let's just say the game isn't shy about its rather crass humor: it's BloodyHilarious and has F-Bombs everywhere. The starter gun is the Flaming Compensator, a shotgun which has two balls dangling from it evoking a very phallic image and, if you're stretching it, [=STDs=] as well.

* {{Pyromaniac}}: Just Kim is this.

* NoHeroDiscount: New weapons and collectable maps from Two Hat Jack and Amps from Floyd all cost exhorbitant amounts of Overcharge, to the point where the player won't come close to unlocking all their stock even after completing every mission, side-quest and DLC mission. This is despite the fact that the player is clearly the only thing stopping the survivor factions being exterminated by Fizzco. This is compounded as:
** AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: Two Hat Jack's sells maps of collectables for each area of the game world, but each collectable type and optional activity is a separate purchase and each area's maps are more expensive than the last. By the final area each map costs 10,000 Overcharge, meaning getting every icon on your map will set you back almost 100,000, more than all but the most expensive weapons.

-->'''Fizzie''': Ha! "Asshole" it is.

** If you're in a mission that requires you to be high up and you accidentally fall, the game will teleport you to the highest point you reached, so you don't have to go through the same segment all over again. The player character is verbally thankful for this. More cruel versions of this simply kills the player, but since DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist at worst the player will be simply respawned at the closest safe spot needing minimal backtracking.

** The game features Auto Aim and there are no enemies that requires hitting a precise spot to kill, which is good considering how fast paced the fights are.

->''Okay, here's the situation: A contaminated energy drink has turned everyone into mutants. There are survivors, doing whatever they can to get by. And some are dicks, attacking others for their stuff... but it's not all bad. All this place needs is a hero! One who doesn't just survive... but does it with style! Who is this hero? ME!... n-not me? Oh. YOU! Can you survive the many dangers? Can you help others survive? Can you save Sunset City? Can you?! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, CAN YOU?!?!''

->''... of course ya can. '''It's a fuckin' video game!'''''

* ActionGirl: 4Kim manages to take out an entire train car of scabs by herself.
--> "Note: Don't mess with 4Kim."

** In "The B-Win Protocol", the player enters inside [[spoiler:the Xbox One that the game is being played on, complete with Kinect Voice Commands.]]

--> Want to delve into a lively and fascinating culture? Want to appear more sophisticated on your next date? Want to make penance for the joke that didn't seem racist at the time, but in retrospect was pretty racist?

--> Virtual reality may be the primary babysitter for kids these days, but why not take them to the lovely Sunset City Park & Play Area? Let them experience real grass, real air, and real pain from falling off of metal contraptions.

--> [[spoiler:'''Fizzie:''' WHAT?! I HAVE A POWER CORE?! Why did I not know this?! Everybody knows the only reason you have a power core is so someone can ''DESTROY THE POWER CORE!'']]

* BambooTechnology / {{MacGyvering}}: Most of the weapons the player uses seems to be hobbled together from various scrap. The [=TnTeddy=] is a notable example as the player is shown actually creating the thing.
** The [=LARPers=] as well, using crossbows made of wire hangers.

* FinalExamBoss: [[spoiler: The final boss has a time limit requiring you to move quickly across the city forcing you to be efficient with the traversals the game taught you.]]

* FromBadToWorse: The rescue of Troop Master Bryllcream. For starters, the Scabs are going to use the compacter in the garbage truck he's in to crush him. You disable the machinery, only for the Scabs to set fire to the truck. You put out the fire with Overcharge, the only liquid in the area, which of course attracts hordes of OD to the truck, who destroy the brakes, and send it rolling down the parking complex and down about 5 blocks of uncontrollable momentum and mayhem, Bryllcream screaming the entire way. In the end, you learn that the man is also missing all four limbs, though that last one's [[AutoCannibalism not your fault.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: Fizzco itself. It's an unusual case where it's both the big bad and the greater scope villain at the same time, because while [[spoiler:Fizzie is the final boss, he's just another robot that works for them. Also, despite not being entirely present in the main game due to most of its execs and the CEO being outside of the city at the time of the game, Fizzco is accidentally responsible for the mutant apocalypse, and thus the entire game by extension. Also, they know of the player and their actions and involve themselves directly in the plot by sending minions and robots to kill them]].

** Your weapons will steadily grow more powerful, be able to store more ammo, and have decorative milestones to show off your progress. ''High Fidelity'' will, for example, gain gold records instead of plain black vinyl.

-->'''King Ignatius:''' (after being shot in the chest) Give me a [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] gun!

* FakingTheDead: One member of Las Catrinas does this because she has a ForbiddenLove with a member of the Scabs.
* FastballSpecial: The Herker can throw smaller [=ODs=] at you.

* UnwittingPawn: During one spy themed sidequest arc, you assist your "own personal Deep Throat" get evidence against Fizzco to expose the Sunset catastrophe for what it really is. [[spoiler:Turns out that your collaborator ''is'' Fizzco, and you were unwittingly helping them ''destroy'' said evidence]].

--> '''Lvl. 1:''' Kills with this weapon have a chance of creating an area of effect blast that sets enemies on fire.
--> '''Lvl. 2:''' Kills with this weapon have a greater chance of creating an area of effect blast that set[[superscript:sic]] enemies on fire than the standard Burn, Baby Amp.

* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Mentioned after one mission, when the player and 4Kim ponder how Sam communicates with them when they don't have any phones.
* VulgarHumor: Let's just say the game isn't shy about its rather crass humor: it's BloodyHilarious and has F-Bombs everywhere. To give a quick example the first gun handed over to you is a shotgun called Flaming Compensator which has two balls dangling from it evoking a very phallic image and, if you're stretching it, [=STDs=] as well.

* WeirdCurrency: Floyd and Two-Hat Jack accept [=OverCharge=] cans. Floyd also accept other weird things like Fizzie dolls, toilet paper, [=OverCharge=] banners, old shoes among other things.

* WhoWouldBeStupidEnough: Your character frequently lampshades the precarious and questionable state of the H.M.S. ''Doomed'', as it is made out of and repaired by trash. (Even with the extreme ease and speed the engineers can fix it from being set almost entirely [[DamageIsFire on fire]], it's just as easily damaged and reignited.) They claim that something this stupid can't possibly get past the Fizzco Invisible Death Wall, then it actually does because it's obviously complete and utter trash.
-->'''Fizzco AI:''' 130% Trash.
-->'''Player:''' Okay, we get it!

* StrictlyFormula: Parodied in one instance. You tell Las Catrina's to give you a series of quests in order to earn their trust the same way with all the other factions you've met up until that point. Esperanza refuses, so ''you'' assign yourself some quests in order to impress them.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: Sunset City is pretty much the poster child for TotallyRadical in city form, fun and constantly sunny. It'd be perfect, if not for the evil faceless corporation creating mutants.

* TotallyRadical: A common complaint regarding the game is that it tries a little too hard to come off as "awesome, random, and self-aware". It's all well and funny to lampshade the fact that whatever cheap videogame trope has just been played is one, but after the eighth time, some players begin to feel like it doesn't quite excuse anymore the fact that they're still used. Thankfully, the game is hella fun and said players are in the minority.

* RidingTheBomb: [[spoiler:Well, Riding the Giant Overcharge Bottle. This is what the player does to destroy the Fizzco HQ initially.]]

* AbnormalAmmo: You can shoot all sorts of unconventional ammo, like bowling balls, vinyl records, and fireworks.

** One of the bits of dialogue from Scabs robbing Virtual Trust trucks of money, talk about orphans, for the player:

** As befitting a trap from the {{LARP}}er Fargarthians, ''Siegfried the Great'' will steadily level up with each kill, becoming more and more powerful, and getting better gear, while he's at it.

''Sunset Overdrive'' is an open-world ThirdPersonShooter developed by Creator/InsomniacGames. The game is somewhat a spiritual successor to ''VideoGame/TotalOverdose'', and parodies every video game tropes and takes place in Sunset City, a locale that suffers from a mutant outbreak after the nefarious company Fizzco releases their energy drink, Overcharge. You play as a highly customizable character who eventually takes the turn of events in stride, moving around the city and destroying mutants with glee.

** [=OverCharge=] must have a cap, but it's higher than 100,000.

%%** [=OverCharge=] must have a cap, but it's higher than 100,000.

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Or, rather, the many ''Respawns'' of you. Players will respawn in a number of BigLippedAlligatorMoment ways, such as coming out of a portal, emerging from the ground in a giant drill, [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} popping out of a coffin]], [[Film/BillAndTed walking out of a phone booth]], being kicked out of a van by mutants, and so on.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Insomniac refers to the game as ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' plus LeParkour.