Just Cause 2

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Description

Rico Rodriguez is back! After liberating the small Island of San Esperito, the CIA-agent is on his way to the island paradise Panau to find a former colleague: Agent Tom Sheldon. During an undercover-investigation, he vanishes and with him two million dollars. Money, the Agency desperately wants back, especially as they believe that Tom changed sides. So Rico has to infiltrate the criminal organisations of Panau as Scorpio to flush out Tom Sheldon and bring him to justice while plunging the country into chaos - but that's more of a bonus than a real objective...

Like its predecessor Just Cause, the game drops the player on a huge island. From the start, the whole island is open to be explored by the player in a third-person-shooter-fashion either on foot, by using several dozen different cars or even by using heavily armed helicopters and fast planes. The player is totally free to do what he wants, although that mostly breaks down to wreaking havoc and causing chaos by destroying statues, fuel tanks and other military-owned stuff. This way the player earns points which in turn progresses the story, unlocks missions and gives him access to additional stuff from the black market. In addition all over the island crates are hidden containing both money and upgrade parts. Once the black market helicopter has been called via a beacon, the player can order weapons, vehicles and even request a transfer to another location on the island for free. Weapons and vehicles on the other hand cost money and are dropped right on the spot where Rico called. They can also be improved using the upgrade parts the player collected.

In addition to his weapons, Rico's two most useful tools are his parachute and his grappling hook. The parachute can be activated at almost anytime, even if the player is driving at high speed along the road, and is very useful to make combo-stunts. And this is where the grappling hook comes in: with it, the player can either pull enemies towards him, or pull himself towards a target - which can either be a house two streets away, or a moving car. The latter allows for example high-speed carjacks which in some cases result in one of the two types of simple Quick-Time-Events in the game. The other type pops up when Rico tries to unlock a gate or disarm a bomb or such. Although the grappling hock was already featured in the first game, this time around it's a dual-hook. If the player has hit something with his hook, he can put the other end on another object - again no matter if it's a solid or moving object or a random human who had the bad luck of being nearby. This allows the player for example to hook a car to a helicopter, fly over an enemy base and drop the car onto the poor soldiers.

To keep the action focused even outside the main storyline, challenges like checkpoint-races and optional missions are scattered around the map and each settlement on the island can be cleared 100% by destroying all worthy targets and collecting all crates in the vicinity.

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Alternate Titles

• "JC2" -- Common abbreviation
• "ジャストコーズ２" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Gameplay feature: BASE jumping
• Gameplay feature: Quick Time Events / QTEs
• Genre: Open world / Free-roaming / Sandbox action and driving
• Japanese PlayStation 3 games with full English support
• Japanese Xbox 360 games with full English support
• Just Cause series
• Middleware: Nvidia 3D Vision
• Physics Engine: Havok
• PlayStation 3 Essentials Range releases
• PlayStation 3 Platinum Range releases
• Xbox 360 Classics releases

User Reviews

20th Century American Foreign Policy: The Game	PlayStation 3	Lain Crowley (6785)
Get ready to bring some serious chaos to Panau	Xbox 360	Hammerlore (1014)
A pretty decent game that you should take a look at least once!	Xbox 360	Juha-Pekka Kurvinen (5)

Critic Reviews

Mygamer.com	Windows	Apr 07, 2010	9.4 out of 10	94
Gamer.co.il	Windows	Apr 29, 2010	87 out of 100	87
Gamers.at	Windows	Mar 24, 2010	86 out of 100	86
Total PC Gaming	Windows	Jun 07, 2010	8.6 out of 10	86
GameSpot	Windows	Mar 25, 2010	8.5 out of 10	85
4Players.de	Xbox 360	Mar 25, 2010	83 out of 100	83
Eurogamer.net (UK)	PlayStation 3	Mar 23, 2010	8 out of 10	80
GamingExcellence	Windows	May 15, 2010	7.9 out of 10	79
Vgames	Windows	Apr 11, 2010	70 out of 100	70
Level 7	Xbox 360	Mar 26, 2010	7 out of 10	70

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• Eidos : Just Cause 2 (Official site.)
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