What makes Total Overdose more than just another dull shoot-'em-up is the ludicrousness of its action. But that suits the game just fine, since you'll be too busy killing everybody to bother caring about them. What little storyline exists here is largely turned irrelevant by the incredibly cheesy voice acting and writing, so there's no real opportunity to care about any of these people. The plot here is merely a vehicle for you to get out and start shooting things. About a billion bullets, bodies, and busts later, you're dealing with crooked DEA agents, big-time drug deals, and a revenge plot about who really killed Ramiro's former-DEA-agent father.
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In a twist that plays like a vaquero movie version of the Anthony Hopkins/Chris Rock vehicle Bad Company, Ramiro is brought in to replace his brother so he can get in with the shady dealers. Ramiro's twin is injured while working undercover, right as he's about to get in with some rather powerful drug lords down in Mexico. Ramiro Cruz is an ex-convict and all-around screwup. The story of Total Overdose is cut from the kind of heavy-on-the-gunplay, light-on-the-drama cloth made famous in 1980s-era action films. If being a DEA agent actually involved this much shoot dodging and blowing stuff up, everybody would want to be one. Just be prepared for one extremely cheesy ride, and to sift through a few serious flaws as well. Because it's made up of so many familiar parts, action game fans ought to be able to settle in and blast their ways through Total Overdose's relatively brief campaign with reasonable levels of enjoyment. That's because the main character plays just like Max Payne, the world around him operates just like the one in Grand Theft Auto, and the storyline plays out like a script Rodriguez might have written early in his career, before he knew what he was doing.
From playing Total Overdose, you get the feeling that the developers at Deadline Games had an awful lot of affection for the Grand Theft Auto and Max Payne games and that they may have watched one too many Robert Rodriguez movies late at night. Bullets fly with reckless abandon, bodies pile up to an almost alarming degree, and all the while you're pulling off the kinds of acrobatic maneuvers that would make Keanu Reeves say, "Woah." Of course, it's also all been done before. Taking the concept of a stylish, violent third-person shooter to the height of hyperactive instability, Total Overdose is an all-out celebration of all things gun. Rarely has a game reveled in its own crapulence the way that Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico does.
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