Sunset Overdrive: the Ted Price interview

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Xbox One exclusive Sunset Overdrive is a little different. It's a shooter, but instead of firing realistic weapons from behind the safety of a waist-high wall, you're firing harpoons from a gun called Captain Ahab while grinding rails. This is a game where you have to keep moving to survive, not play whack-a-mole against enemies who conveniently poke their heads out of cover every few seconds. It rekindles memories of Jet Set Radio, that fantastic, much-loved Sega classic. Play it for five minutes and you'll see why.
At EGX this week Ted Price, the boss of developer Insomniac Games, sat down with Eurogamer to reveal why the studio wanted to do something different with the shooter genre after shipping gritty PlayStation 3 exclusive FPS Resistance 3 in 2011. There were a few bumps along the road to Sunset Overdrive's upcoming October 2014 launch, but it sounds like a fascinating journey.
Oh, and we asked a few questions from Eurogamer's dear readers, too (like, will Sunset Overdrive come to PC?). You lot really are lovely.
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