Total Overdose

Total Overdose (also known as Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico, abbreviated as TOD) is an open world third-person shooter video game developed by Deadline Games and published by Eidos Interactive for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, and Xbox.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Entertaining story.
 * 2) Nicely stylized and colorful visuals.
 * 3) Fun and challenging gameplay.
 * 4) The game incorporates a score system in which points are earned via killing enemies in quick succession and in the most stylish way possible.
 * 5) Ram can shootdodge, kill enemies while doing a wall run or wall hop, target an enemy's head during these moves, shoot grenades after they're thrown, jump out of a car as it crashes into enemies and explodes, and even turn 180 degrees immediately after a shootdodge.
 * 6) Ram also has access to special moves which include wielding two gun-toting guitars, spinning while firing two guns, charging into enemies headfirst, wielding a golden gun which headshots enemies instantly, and calling in a companion to assist him in combat.
 * 7) If Ram has any rewind tokens in his possession, time can be rewinded to a point before death, giving the player a chance to make up for a mistake.
 * 8) Scoring enough points in a mission or challenge will award you with perks which will give you benefits such as larger ammo capacity, additional challenge missions, and tokens which will increase your health, adrenaline, or give you the ability to dual wield certain guns and gain infinite ammo upon earning 10 of the specified token. You'll also find points and tokens while exploring the world.
 * 9) You can take a taxi to specific locations or select a mission from a menu to instantly travel to it, allowing the player to complete missions without having to do much backtracking.
 * 10) Great soundtrack.
 * 11) Good voice-acting.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The driving challenges are rather annoying due to the strange handling of the vehicles.
 * 2) The radar doesn't mark any streets, which makes navigating the world more confusing than necessary.
 * 3) While visuals look great, the graphics on the other hand being very-outdated, looking like Dreamcast or a Nintendo 64 game as it uses modified version of the older RenderWare engine (RenderWare 3, of course); other 2005 sixth-generation games such as Resident Evil 4 and Conker: Live and Reloaded, as well as Xbox 360 launch titles like Kameo: Elements of Power, King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie, Project Gotham Racing 3, and Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005), looked superior.

Reception
Total Overdose received positive reviews and received a remake titled Chili Con Carnage for the PlayStation Portable in 2007. A sequel titled Total Overdose 2: Tequila Gunrise, intended to have the entire map of Mexico, was planned but was cancelled after Eidos Interactive pulled out of it.

Trivia

 * The final mission "The Getaway Train" is a clear reference to the infamous mission Wrong Side of the Tracks from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in where both Ramiro and Carl follow a moving train by using a dirtbike.