Just Cause

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Description

You are Rico Rodriguez, a CIA-agent who is sent to the small Island of San Esperito to start a revolution and bring down the current regime under the rule of General Salvador Mendoza.

After you jumped out of the airplane and helped your local contact survive an attack by gang members, you have - much like GTA: San Andreas - the freedom to do what you want. The complete island is accessible from the beginning and you can either follow the main storyline, engage in side-missions, or collect items all over the place. To help the revolution you can also drive the government out of the individual sectors on the island. This is accomplished by a three-stages fight in which you have to go up against a huge army of government forces.

As a fully trained agent, Rico can also perform many stunts. He has always an parachute equipped which he can open whenever he has enough speed. So he often uses cars or bikes as a jump-pad and then sails smoothly into the sunset.

But of course he cannot impress the evil regime with that, so he also has access to a wide range of weapons from pistols with unlimited ammo to rocket launchers and machine guns. Rico is also trained to drive everything that has an engine, from a normal bike to a fully-armed military helicopter.

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Alternate Titles

• "Rico: Terror in the Tropics" -- Working title
• "JC" -- Common abbreviation
• "저스트 코즈" -- Korean spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Covermount: Level (Romania)
• Gameplay feature: BASE jumping
• Genre: Open world / Free-roaming / Sandbox action and driving
• Just Cause series
• Middleware: GameCODA
• PC Gamer Presents Games
• Physics Engine: Havok
• Software Pyramide releases
• Xbox 360 Classics releases

User Reviews

Just Cause? Lost Cause...	Windows	D Michael (232)
GTA meets Oblivion, but the game is Grandly Oblivious	Windows	Indra was here (20853)

Critic Reviews

4Players.de	Xbox 360	Sep 21, 2006	84 out of 100	84
4Players.de	PlayStation 2	Sep 21, 2006	83 out of 100	83
Game Freaks 365	Xbox	2006	8 out of 10	80
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Xbox 360	Sep 25, 2006	8 out of 10	80
PC Powerplay	Windows	Sep 27, 2006	77 out of 100	77
GameSpot	Windows	Sep 21, 2006	7.2 out of 10	72
GameSpot	Xbox 360	Sep 21, 2006	7.2 out of 10	72
IGN	Windows	Sep 26, 2006	6.8 out of 10	68
IGN	Xbox	Sep 18, 2006	6.8 out of 10	68
GameSpy	Xbox 360	Sep 21, 2006		60

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Trivia

1001 Video Games

Just Cause appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

References

The box art emulates the famous photograph of Che Guevara taken by the Cuban photographer Alberto Korda. A fitting choice as this game also deals with the overthrowing of a dictatorial regime.

Related Web Sites

• An interview with Just Cause Directors Christofer Sundberg and Linus Blomberg (by Blogcritics Magazine (8th September 2006))
• IGCD Internet Game Cars Database (Game page on IGCD, a database that tries to archive vehicles found in video games.)
• Just Cause - The Game (Official Homepage)
• Wikipedia: Just Cause (Article about the game in the open encyclopedia)
• X360A achievement guide (X360A's achievement guide for Just Cause)