Just Cause 2 is best represented by it's own signature move. It boasts being able to grapple onto any surface and jump out of planes from any height. It seems to signify that JC2 gets progressively worse as you go on, despite the cheap tricks it throws out to slow the descent.
The controls of Just Cause 2 are good. It felt a bit less than natural when I aimed down a gun, but the running and grappling were easy and responsive. Vehicle controls are excellent too, however the stunt jump feature seemed useless unless I needed to leave the vehicle, in which case I just bailed out. The map of this game is enormous, which allows for some really fun, really long car chases and plane flights. And then there are the explosions. You can almost destroy every structure, and it's amazingly great. Once, I stole a helicopter from a military base in the desert and proceeded to dismantle every vehicle in the base, all the aircraft, the water tower, the generators, the broadcast towers, the guard towers, everything useful. Destruction can be used tactfully too, say there's a guard tower. There are five snipers, you have four bullets. Blow it up with a grenade! There's also grappling, which allows you to go from zero to sixteen hundred feet of elevation in seconds. It's great.
Just Cause 2 has impressive graphics for such a large scale game. There were obviously copied trees and buildings, but it was mostly decent. There were a few glitches, namely enemies stuttering fiercely and civilians not giving a poo when I shot them, but these won't exactly make you boot the game out your window, screaming and cursing wildly.
The story of Just Cause 2 is the weakest link of this otherwise solid production. You play as Rico Rodriguez, a secret agent tasked with hunting down your former mentor and now rogue, Tom Sheldon. You eventually do and this leads to a conspiracy filled with shootings, tank fights, Uzi wielding ninjas and a fat man's parrot. It's just a bad story, but Square Enix didn't intend it to be revolutionary. It's pretty much a 90s TV show.
Overall, this is a pretty good game. There's fun to be had, definitely, but don't expect much, because nothing but excuses for gunfights can be found in this menagerie of explosions and over the top action scenes.
The controls of Just Cause 2 are good. It felt a bit less than natural when I aimed down a gun, but the running and grappling were easy and responsive. Vehicle controls are excellent too, however the stunt jump feature seemed useless unless I needed to leave the vehicle, in which case I just bailed out. The map of this game is enormous, which allows for some really fun, really long car chases and plane flights. And then there are the explosions. You can almost destroy every structure, and it's amazingly great. Once, I stole a helicopter from a military base in the desert and proceeded to dismantle every vehicle in the base, all the aircraft, the water tower, the generators, the broadcast towers, the guard towers, everything useful. Destruction can be used tactfully too, say there's a guard tower. There are five snipers, you have four bullets. Blow it up with a grenade! There's also grappling, which allows you to go from zero to sixteen hundred feet of elevation in seconds. It's great.
Just Cause 2 has impressive graphics for such a large scale game. There were obviously copied trees and buildings, but it was mostly decent. There were a few glitches, namely enemies stuttering fiercely and civilians not giving a poo when I shot them, but these won't exactly make you boot the game out your window, screaming and cursing wildly.
The story of Just Cause 2 is the weakest link of this otherwise solid production. You play as Rico Rodriguez, a secret agent tasked with hunting down your former mentor and now rogue, Tom Sheldon. You eventually do and this leads to a conspiracy filled with shootings, tank fights, Uzi wielding ninjas and a fat man's parrot. It's just a bad story, but Square Enix didn't intend it to be revolutionary. It's pretty much a 90s TV show.
Overall, this is a pretty good game. There's fun to be had, definitely, but don't expect much, because nothing but excuses for gunfights can be found in this menagerie of explosions and over the top action scenes.