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Insomniac’s Associate Community Manager, Brandon Winfrey, tells us a tale of magic and wonder in the latest “Sunset TV” developer diary for Sunset Overdrive . By “magic,” I mean he talks about the utterly amazing traps you can set up to kill enemies (the Pyro Geyser? Hell yes!). And by “wonder,” I mean you can play as a woman in Sunset Overdrive… or a person of another nationality, or a dude in a skirt, or whatever the heck you want to play as (limited only by the character creator and your imagination).

In the video, one of the female characters sports a hooded white robe. Surely this is a friendly poke at the backlash Ubisoft received during this year’s E3 Expo over the lack of female characters in Assassin’s Creed: Unity. Watch the video… it’s great.

Sunset Overdrive will be out on October 28 for the Xbox One.

Insomniac wants to take a different tack with Sunset Overdrive, their post-apocalyptic shooter for the Xbox One. According to the developer, the game takes place during the “Awesomepocalypse of 2027” and doesn’t feature the drab grays and shuffling zombies of your typical apocalyptic game. Instead, Sunset Overdrive is an action-packed romp through a color city that features player movement based on parkour, zip-lining, and rail-grinding. Insomniac being Insomniac, it also features a strange collection of weaponry including the Roman Candle Gun, the High Fidelity Gun (a record rocket launcher), and the T-N-Teddy (a dynamite-packing teddy bear).

In addition to a wide array of mutant monster (the victims of a poisoned batch of energy drinks), the game will also include multiple Warriors-esque factions, such as a group of LARPers who finally get to live out their dreams of heroic conquest.

Sunset Overdrive will be available for the Xbox One this Fall in a special Day One Edition that will include exclusive outfits and weapons. More details on the Day One Edition can be found at the Xbox Wire.