If you’re one of those people – and, let’s face it, you probably are – then congratulations, because Sunset Overdrive has not only stretched The Floor is Lava across an entire city, but also gone the extra mile and supplemented it with mutants and guns. It’s also one of those silly childhood games that most people pretend they’re too mature for around the age of 11, yet continue to silently imagine playing in a variety of elaborate locations for pretty much the rest of their lives. It’s a playground game in which schoolchildren pretend the floor is full of deadly molten rock, and the point of it is to bundle onto the nearest piece of furniture, push all the dorks off, and impress whichever girl you fancy at the time by making sure she’s always safe. Sunset Overdrive’s greatest achievement is recognizing the limitless potential of The Floor is Lava. So let’s discuss the thing that’s been on my mind constantly since the first five minutes of it: How can a game so fun to play, a game with such simple, elegant mechanics, a game based around a single near-genius concept… how can that game make me want to murder every single member of its development team? And say whatever you like about Sunset Overdrive, the new open-world sandbox adventure from Insomniac Games , but it certainly does that. As my suffering readership is no doubt well-aware, I love a video game that prompts an interesting discussion.
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