12 Hugely Underrated Open-World Games You Totally Missed

10. Total Overdose

Sometimes we just need things like this to remind us that games can be games. Slow-motion gunfights complete with twirling moves that down entire rooms of enemies in one, overblown one liner-spouting protagonists - and a special attack called 'El Loco' that sees you ram head-first through any stragglers. Total Overdose was like if you took Just Cause and stir-fried it with some Mexican chillies. The resulting concoction would blow your head off if you weren't careful, but getting acclimatised with its frenetic gunplay, various evasive manoeuvres and special attacks only meant you ended up indulging more and more - until the whole thing becomes stupidly enjoyable. TD would see a more linear release called Chili Con Carnage two years later on PSP, but it's this original that took Max Payne's gunplay, True Crime's arcady car-handling and the stylish self-aware humour of Robert Rodriguez' El Mariachi trilogy, before stuffing it all in a shot glass and asking you to light the top. It was brilliant.