Mr Puggsly said:
A Mature rated game like Sunset Overdrive with those visuals doesn't exactly appeal to the masses regardless of how fun the game is. |
Yes, the target demographic is far more important than how much or how little color there is.
SO is an M-rated shooter in a market with plenty of them already, and it's main hook is being "meta" in a way that few outside the core audience would appreciate. And whatever pedigree Insominac had to sell the game based on the studio involved was built on Sony platforms; this is only the second game they've had on an MS box, and I doubt Fuse left a good impression. The color palette was the least of it's problems.
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