Otherwise, you can try the gloriously nuts Saints Row 3 or developers’ Deadline Games follow-up remake/sequel Chili Con Carnage. So if you’re in the mood to stylishly kill bad guys repeatedly, it’s worth a go. Title: Total Overdose: A Gunslinger’s Tale in Mexico. It could reinforce culturally-insensitive stereotypes, although part of this is clearly the point. Total Overdose’s plot is generic and obvious, but that’s okay since it’s as much relentless action movie as video game. Plus, it only takes up 1.2GB of disk space once installed. The good news is this means the game runs very well on modern machines, as it doesn’t require a high-end graphics card or gigabytes of RAM. Vehicles (many of which can be commandeered) are ugly blocks, and characters look like they’ve been chiseled out of angry clay. Since it’s a 15-year-old PC game, don’t expect stunning graphics.
Insanity is clearly the point, though, as the game takes liberal inspiration from the early films of Robert Rodriguez as much as open-world videogames. Total Overdose for PC Addeddate 15:34:45 Identifier total-overdose202112 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4.
You can use these to unleash frankly ludicrous special moves, like twin guitar cases that are actually guns, and a mysterious luchador who appears to help kill enemies. Total Overdose emphasises combo attacks and kill-streaks, which earn ‘Loco’ points.