![]() That is, unless you're standing next to a wall, in which case it will probably glitch out as your character tries and fails to do a cool Matrix-style wallrun thing. You can press a stunt button at any time during combat to enact a slow motion dive. There are sometimes other minor activities such as delivering vehicles, but it's always in service of forcing you into places with lots of guys that must be shot at. Each mission is roughly the same setup: you are in a place and must shoot all of the guys. ![]() There are eleven story missions in total, which makes the game shockingly short. Why is it even there? Was it a publisher mandate? A prank that got out of hand? I refuse to speculate on the matter. This environment is the barest of the bare minimum required to be mentioned in the same breath as GTA. Even going on a little rampage is meaningless, since there are no police or wanted systems to fight against. There are no stores to buy things from and no diversionary minigames. There's literally nothing to do in the open world. Except it's not used for that, because at any time you can bring up the pause menu and select any active mission or side activity from a list in order to start it immediately. Except it's not a GTA knockoff at all, because the open world is completely pointless all you use it for is driving from one mission to the next. Except it's also a Grand Theft Auto knockoff, set in a semi-open city environment (divided by loading screens into five or so districts) where you're free to wander and steal cars. You do a lot of diving in slow-motion while shooting at guys. On one hand, Total Overdose is a Max Payne clone. It's like the game is being open about its own identity crisis. ![]() And then at the end of his first mission he hurts his leg so he calls in the real protagonist, his twin brother. At this point the perspective shifts to the real protagonist: his son, who is also a DEA agent and is out to find the truth. At the end of the tutorial he is killed off by another agent who was secretly working for the kingpin Papa Muerte the entire time. ![]() Total Overdose starts with a tutorial mission in which you play as an old DEA agent, blasting up drug runners who operate from an Aztec ziggurat. ![]()
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