Awesome / Sunset Overdrive

• The character customization, which features various body types, faces, makeup, hair, and clothing, which ranges from iconic "The Sleepless" outfit to wacky Buck National outfit for male player character and also the Las Catrinas outfit for female player character.
  • In akin to switching and play as any characters during free-roam in LEGO City Undercover, you can play as any character in the game via character customization if you see Freeze-Frame Bonus or look closely at the character.
    • To play as a male character with the Iconic Outfit, head to one of the forts or bases and talk to Calista in order to customize the player character.

    • Body Type
    • Body Type #3: Male - Skinny

    • Face
    • Face #13

    • Head
    • Eyes: Brown
    • Hair: Half-Shaven - Burnette/Red

    • Tops
    • Underwear: Bare
    • Tops: T-Shirt (Layered)
    • Outerwear: Denim Vest (or Denim Jacket)

    • Bottoms
    • Underwear: Almost Nekkid
    • Bottoms: Moto Pants
    • Footwear: Running Shoes

  • From the Freeze-Frame Bonus of a Bushido girl scout trooper getting attacked by OD in the "3 Hours Earlier" cutscene at the beginning of the game, or in one of "Big Trouble in Little Tokyo" and "The Fall of Emperor Norton" story missions' cinematics, head to one of the forts or bases and talk to Calista in order to customize the player character and play as her.
    • Body Type
    • Body Type #2: Female - Athletic

    • Face
    • Face #16

    • Head
    • Eyes: Brown
    • Hair: Pigtails - Burnette

    • Tops
    • Underwear: Almost Nekkid
    • Tops: Troop Shirt

    • Bottoms
    • Underwear: Almost Nekkid
    • Bottoms: Troop Shorts
    • Footwear: Hiking Boots

• The way you navigate the map in general. Once you unlock all your movement abilities, you'll be able to run, jump, bounce, and grind your way through scenic Sunset City like you're a god of parkour!
• Night Defenses challenges. You, some traps vs an overwhelming number of OD. The conclusion to every night defense challenge is a very satisfying refined OD-turned-into-AMPs explosion that wipes out everything you didn't kill.
• The Death of King Ignatius... NOT! Watching the Fargarthians cheer and arm themselves properly is as heartwarming as it is indescribably awesome.
  King Ignatius: Alak... 'tis too late... my blood... my blood... my... blood... BOILS! Give me a fucking gun!
  • Even better is the final stage of the Siege of Wondertown Land, where you blow up fireworks, literally set fire to the castle, and end the King Scab by ramming yourself into his titanium-reinforced roller coaster car.
  King Ignatius: Kill the motherfuckers in yon castle!
• Troop Master Bryllcream, Fizzbot Killer. Not only is he a survival expert, he can apparently design and coordinate well enough with the other factions to make a Troop Bushido Mini-Mecha out of a Fizzco Tank. It gets even better in the ''Mystery of the Mooil Rig' DLC after several upgrades.
• The Norton Dragon boss fight. The way you hurt it is getting to the head and a cutscene plays of you stylishly stabbing the beast with a weapon thrice. The second time with your lightning-shaped energy meter!
• So you’re escorting Boo-Boo the robot dog back to the Oxfords. OD start showing up and you’re probably worried about having to defend the cybernetic pooch. Nope! Launch his favorite toy at a target and just watch the Mecha-mutt tear through any enemy in his wake!
• Buck National’s Pain Train!
• Awesomesmithing truly earns its name once you get the Super Titanium trophies and forge a sword out of them. Where is your forge, exactly? The tower of a nuclear power plant, of course. Forging it is done by being shot up by the air drafts from the steam being generated by the plant, and then crashing down from about 30 stories up with your hammer. Cooling it is a dual process of bathing it in the blood of your enemies, and then dunking it into (relatively) pure water. In the end, you get a nuclear-forged sword that shoots fire, lightning, and absorbs the souls of your enemies to give you health. And all of this could have been lost if not for the Fizzco exec taking his elaborate sword with him.
• The final boss of the Dawn DLC lets you fight the host of Sunset TV Brandon Winfrey.
  Brandon: I'm Brandon Winfrey, and I! AM GOOOOOOOOOOOD!
• The fake ending to the game. The player rides a giant bottle of Overcharge into the Fizzco HQ and destroys the building at the cost of their life. Afterwards the other characters begin mourning and the credits start to roll... only for the player character to walk back onscreen and chew the developers out for making such a crappy ending. They then rewind the game back to about a minute before it ends, respawn right in front of their friends and then have a fight with a giant Fizzco robot before it destroys the entire city.
  Player Character: "Now THAT is how you end a video game!"
• The final stage of The Most Epic Quest for EXP. After earning the indubitably great Siegfried trap, seeing them level up and get badass, you are also attacked by hordes upon hordes of OD to epic fantasy music (and by that point, have the arsenal to completely destroy them with ease), culminating in a dramatic entrance and even more so exit by the Fizzco Tank terrorizing Fargarthia.
• After the initial level spent in your drab Fizzco uniform, the game presents you with with huge array of colourful and zany outfits to choose from for your adventure in Sunset City and the selection only expands as the game goes on. Allowing that level of self-expression is a perfect fit for the fun post-apocalyptic tone the game is going for and feels very refreshing now so many games offer limited cosmetic options or offer them only as paid DLC.

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