![]() ![]() ![]() At no point does Total Overdose ever claim to take itself seriously: the main baddie is named “Papa Muerte,” for goodness’ sake. Stylistically, the game feels like a Robert Rodriguez flick on laughing gas: the Mexico of Total Overdose is a place full of drug dealers, luchadores, rebels, federales, and, at one point, zombies. After taking his brother’s place undercover within the biggest drug cartel in all of Mexico, Ramiro sets out to take down the drug dealers, earn his freedom, and find out who killed his also-coincidentally-a-DEA-agent father several years ago. So, basically, it’s Bad Company : Tijauana Style. You play Ramiro Cruz, an ex-con who is drafted into the DEA when his twin brother is almost killed whilst undercover. ![]() Yeah, the graphics kind of suck and the controls are pretty damn console-centric, but if Stranglehold left you wanting more, then Total Overdose might be the (flawed) game you’ve been looking for. Total Overdose, the 2005 third-person shooter from Deadline Games, basically covers all the same ground as Stranglehold (large scale, over-the-top gunfights), along with adding some pleasurable, if flawed, Grand Theft Auto-esque elements - and all in a wacky, fun, Robert Rodriguez-esque game world. Midway’s Woo-centric third-person shooter may have had gorgeous graphics and the Massive Destructoid engine, but I’ll tell you what it didn’t have: heart.* ![]()
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