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The silliness extends to your special 'Loco' moves, earned through amassing multiple body counts and/or collecting tokens hidden throughout the city. Or for no discernible plot-based reason, suddenly turn into a giant Mexican wrestler and start twatting other masked tubbos about the head with a giant bat. Run up to someone and nick their fiat, just because you can, then run away before they get too mad. Dive left right, forwards and back while aiming for headshots and stringing multiple kills Shoot bad guys in the head while doing cartwheels off the wall. And unlike GTA, combat is actually half decent thanks mostly to the Max Pbyne-style agility and slo-mo moves. At absolutely no point does Total Overdose take itself even remotely seriously. The feel of the game constantly gives you that urge to go off exploring midmissions, but the limitations in size and variety ultimately make it feel something of a wasted effort. Instead you constantly feel as though you're merely playing a cut-down version of GTA, regardless of the developer's intention. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite come off that way.
There's far less for you to do in the city (no non-mission 'life' stuff) - the idea being to distance itself from GTA at every stage. The heavy use of chickens and exploding pihatas in the game proper also goes some way to boosting the silliness factor. The flippancy of the game is very much on show here too, with mini-games like a blood bath in which all the pedestrians turn into versions of something similar to the skeletal Manny from Grim Fandango. Hidden until now due to fears of unfair GTA comparisons (unfair since it's far more reminiscent of the wide open everything-is-a-grinding-surface arenas of Tony Hawk), it's another avenue for point-claiming. Eidos is clearly keen on the idea that obsessives will try to string out combos that last entire levels - assuming, of course, that they don't go outside and get a girlfriend first.Īnother feature that's remained under lock-and-key until now is the sandbox-y town that you can traverse, if you so choose, in between levels and challenges. In fact, in our playtest, the mission at hand became secondary to the pursuit of points, since a timer is always ticking from your last kill, showing how long you have to continue on your point-totting rampage. Barrels explode, Mexicans die and points are delivered for style - which in turn gifts you extra health and Loco Moves such as Desperado-style machine guns in guitar cases or one-shot-kill golden guns. Left button shoots, right button zeroes in for a headshot and spacebar does all the sparkly magic with shoot dodging and wall gymnastics that would put the youngest girl in the Ukrainian gymnastics team to shame. This is exactly like the feature in the Prince Of Persia titles, giving you the sneaky ability to rewind time just before you ' headbutted that grenade, and replay the action again - although obviously you do only get a limited supply. If the back-flipping, dual-wielding chaos does happen to catch up with you, and Cruz bites the dust, you do have another trick up your sleeve - Rewind. While not exactly sophisticated, the action is intense, especially when you manage to chain different combos together (a la Tony Hawk's) - a combo meter in the top-left hand corner handily ticks down between kills, showing you the time you have left to find another victim before the chain ends. Cruz is also able to drive numerous vehicles that involve equally explosive stunts, such as piling a truck headlong into an oil tanker. You dash around the destructible environments, as the auto-target reticule locks onto the enemies streaming towards you for instant satisfying blasting. As ex-con Ernesto Cruz, you must track down the criminal underworld figures that killed your drugs cop father, and to help, you have access to over 20 weapons - some of which can be dual-wielded - including machineguns, rocket launchers, sniper rifles, baseball bats and machetes.Īs well as Mexican villages, the 20-odd levels in Total Overdose will feature Aztec temples, seedy inner cities and goon-stuffed warehouses.
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You can imagine Total Overdose to be a pihata full of gameplay treats from Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, Serious Sam and Tony Hawk's, smashed open by filmmakers Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino.
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