Sunset Overdrive – ‘Multiplayer Experience’ Chaos Squad
Microsoft Studios and Insomniac Games have released a new gameplay trailer and details for the multiplayer mode for the Xbox One exclusive Sunset Overdrive. Here we learn more about the Chaos Squad mode, where you will be able to select your battles with up to 7 friends before encountering the final showpiece known as the Final Defence.
Your successes at the Chaos Squad will earn you valuable awards, not to mention you’ll have an absolute blast taking on the bad guys with friends. You can check out the gameplay trailer below, along with the latest press releases for Sunset Overdrive.
Sunset Overdrive is set to release exclusively for the Xbox One on October 28th.
More about Chaos Squad
- Choose Your Chaos Wisely – The amount of Chaos is what determines the difficulty of your team’s final Night Defence. The higher your Chaos– the tougher your Night Defence is going to be, but you’ll get more chances to receive cool rewards at the end. The amount of Chaos you have will depend on which missions you voted for leading up to Night Defence. Take a mission with a lot of chaos to increase difficulty and potential rewards? Or take a mission with a team boost to make the group more likely you succeed.
- Go straight from campaign to Chaos Squad, in game – So, you’re leaping around Sunset City in single-player and your friend invites you to join their Chaos Squad. You drop off a grind rail, strut up to the nearest future photo booth, and enter. You’ll go straight into multiplayer with the same clothing, same amps, same everything as your character from the single-player campaign.
- Vote on missions in the open-world – At the start, you and your rag-tag band are going to get two mission options to vote on. You conquer it, two new ones crop up. And they’ll have different objectives and be in separate locations from the first round. So, the result is that each Chaos Squad experience feels unique as you’re going through the open-world.After a few rounds of voting and slaying and Chaos or boost getting – it’s time for your team to face the main event: Night Defence!
- Night Defence – This is where you will fend off enemies and protect your vats of Overcharge at one of many forts across the city by not only using your weapons, traversal, and amps – but by placing traps, as well. Before each wave – you’ll have a bit of time to place your traps, but if you made a horrible calculation, you can move and place them during the waves, as well. And then – the enemies attack. And what comes next is an assault of 8 players simultaneously jumping, shooting, grinding, and exploding nearly everything in sight. Each wave brings an increasingly difficult and new variety of enemies to your door. And, remember, the more Chaos you gathered in the open-world missions – the harder it’s going to be.
- Rewards for your character you can take back to campaign! – But! Your reward output is based on your Chaos. So, if you manage to survive with a large amount of Chaos – you’re going to get more chances at better rewards than the teams who took team boosts instead of Chaos.
Also coming from the Xbox Wire, below are some further all you need to known details on Sunset Overdrive and its exciting multiplayer mode.
Set up as a series of missions with different objectives in the open world, multiplayer culminates in a defensive enemy-at-the-gates Night Defence mode, which is what we got to play. Players work together to set traps and inflict mayhem, to fend off waves of enemies before they devour the tanks of energy drink you’re protecting.
To be honest, “Sunset Overdrive” is so wonderfully frenetic that it can be a little overwhelming at first. But once your brain catches up to the craziness after a minute you fall into a perfect gameplay groove: grinding along rails, hitting explosive traps to take out a whole group of baddies, then performing a series of tricks to snag more power-ups for the next wave.
We stuck to the rails high up, doing perimeter sweeps with propane-tank explosives. Down below, another player set off explosives around the map to thin the herds of monsters rushing towards us. Meanwhile, another player posted up high and picked off the bigger enemies that tried to come along the side. “Sunset Overdrive” lets you play in your style, and together we all kept the bad guys at bay. All along the way, we were earning power-ups and costume items that could be used not only in multiplayer matches, but also in single-player.
The Night Defence portion of “Sunset Overdrive’s” Chaos Squad multiplayer feels like Insomniac took the over-the-top weapons they’re known so well for, crammed it in a blender with “Jet Set Radio,” and then poured that mess all over an awesome tower defence game. It’s incredibly addictive, rewarding, fast-paced, and most of all, really fun to play. This is how co-op multiplayer should be, and we can’t wait to play more.