Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico (commonly referred to as simply Total Overdose) is an open world third-person shooter video game developed by Deadline Games and published by SCi Games for Microsoft Windows PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The game received generally mixed reviews with the combat often being praised while the graphics and storyline were frequently criticized. In 1989 Ernesto Cruz a deep-cover DEA agent leads a troop of DEA agents against a militia in a jungle to take some information on Papa Muerte. After the attack Ernesto is thrown from a plane and killed: his C.O. Colonel Trust believes it's a drug overdose. Ernesto's son Tommy a high-ranking DEA agent goes to Mexico and finds Marco who is his primary contact with Morales Cartel. Tommy destroys a Virgillo gang convoy and their gas station but is seriously wounded by a grenade explosion. With no alternative Tommy calls his younger brother Ramiro an imprisoned criminal to take the job.