Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico

Like if Max Payne was Mexican and you could drive cars and motor bikes. It was a game I was very nostalic for and wanted to play again. Other than the sound issues I had I found it held up pretty well. Wish they would make a modern sequel to it, I'd rather play that than modern GTA games with all their tiresome dialog and switching characters nonsense

Damn, it's better than i remember as a kid, it has the script of the most regular day in Mexico and it works

On paper, Total Overdose is the perfect child of Max Payne and Saints Row. You have over the top situations, a too cool for school main character, cheesy music, stereotypical drug lords and gangbangers, horns that hunk melodies, whacky special abilities and the Max Payne like shooting. And yet, it doesn't really hit the mark. It should be a surefire hit, but it isn't and I honestly couldn't tell you why. The shooting is fine, the characters are fine, the story is fine, the missions are fine, the driving is horrible (your cars constantly drift around corners, there is no way to turn in a normal way), the devs had the right ideas and all in all, objectively speaking, it isn't that worse than Saints Row 1, yet it somehow doesn't click. The Max Payne mechanics in the game are ok, though a bit random. While dolphin diving works 100% of the time, running up against a wall is a hit or miss. Sometimes you can do it, a few cm down the same wall you suddenly can't do it anymore. There isn't much rhyme or reason when you can perform wall jumping and when you can't and the move gets interrupted way too easily, like when the ceiling is too narrow. It also doesn't help that the PC controls feel somewhat clunky. The game can also be deceptively difficult. It's fine for 75% of the game, but the last 25% really ramp up and you have to you jump around like a rubber ball on crack and have to be more deliberate with your gun selection in order to survive. The devs also made the weird decision to only play music when you have a combo going. I get the intend, because it encourages you to stay in the action, but it removes any sense of awesomness and atmosphere when there are no enemies around, which is a real shame because the music is actually good.

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Too Bad it never got a sequel