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Just Cause 2
Topic Started: Tuesday Nov 3 2009, 08:07 PM (1,710 Views)
NecrisTEWQ
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Thursday Apr 1 2010, 09:34 PM
.....and EB won't price match with anyone else because they're copy is special............ ^o)
my EB price matched my ltd copy for 89, even though i lied :P
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I love this game so far. Particularly loving the fact that you're booted out from linear/rigid mission structure very early and given access to all the sweet toys straight away - you listening, rockstar? And the whole map being open straight up is brill. I'm quite capable of pacing myself, thank you :)

The character modellings a bit naff, but I can live with that. The graphics are a bit rough especially up close, but this is easily outweighed by the scale of things - looking across to the mountains from the bay, seeing the whispy clouds moving below their peaks was breathtaking. And the ropy animation and lack of cover makes sense - it's all designed with gameplay in mind (the floaty jump was a bit annoying at first, until I realised how necessary it was to the game mechanic - i'll take decent play over good looking any day)

My only concern, having done a couple of the 'influence' missions (whatever they are called) is wether the missions will all be a bit samey - they where both "escort me into the base and then defend me" types... still heaps of fun and lots of scope to approach from whatever angle I wanted.


And tooling around using the parachute and grapple is brilliant. I could do that for hours.
yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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yes most of the time i try to see how high i can grapple to and then jump off it. Missions? What missions? I'm trying to fly this plane into the fucking mountain!

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who's got the achievement for longest free fall? "I believe I can fly".

I'd sadly learnt the tip from eurogamer, didn't find it myself.....


My only sore point is that I want more 'secrets' - ie in secluded areas, something cool. I hate (in any open world game) getting to some spot that looks like it should have some little reward and there's nothing there... I'm talking easter eggs, like the sign on the bridge in Liberty City. Even just something interesting, like a crashed plane or something. (I'm actually thinking of a specific spot in JC2- a lake in the middle of the desert, only accessible easily be air... and it's just a lake... boring)

Still loving this though, especially the way the chaingun has infinite ammo and chews through scenery - I even felt a little bad in the agency mission I just did, at what I was destroying. Wish I'd vid capped it though....


EDIT - ooh, and I love the parachute/grapple combo - makes me feel like a BASE jumping spider man. Oh, and I sent my first man rocketing attached to a gas canister before... wish I'd grabbed that, should turn on the 30sec capture at least.
Edited by felicitous blue, Friday Apr 2 2010, 07:45 PM.
yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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Ive got the freefall trophy.

I love grappling cars and jumping into a chopper and carrying them far over a cliff and bailing out.

Or hijacking a jetliner and nosediving it into the ground while sat on the nose outside the plane only to open my chute a sec before it hits the ground.


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I decided to start again, as I was playing on Experienced and while I wasn't finding the combat hard there wasn't much scope for standing in the open trying to tether bad guys to various things (got shot up to quickly). No option once your in game to change difficulty, none that I could find anyway.

Must admit though, it's been a lot of fun going back playing the starting missions again anyway - there's so much scope for doing things differently. Much fun.
yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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It does get harder once you progress the enemies get more difficult and come at you more often, trying to take over a military compound with boats and choppers hammering you makes it tougher.


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Anyone remember mercenaries and how fucking awful mercenaries 2 was? Just Cause 2 is the same. Glitching, and constantly repeating audio... "We'veWe'veWe'veWe've got a target" "CallCallCall in air support"

Crashes when loading. Cars handle like fucking rubbish. Black market drops items like choppers that fall off ledges before u can get to them.. or don't even drop at all. Grappling hook works half the time.

The list goes on..
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The vehicles are terrible. Even on normal difficulty the enemies are ridiculously good shots - I can be tearing down a road, weaving in and out of traffic and have an enemy on a bike 50m behind me hitting me with every shot. When grappling to a building, sometimes I go flying over it. They should have spent less time making underwater look pretty and more time on the rest of the game.

Having said that, the game is like crack. I cant help but want to clear the next village and find the next collectable.
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The vehicles are terrible. Even on normal difficulty the enemies are ridiculously good shots - I can be tearing down a road, weaving in and out of traffic and have an enemy on a bike 50m behind me hitting me with every shot. When grappling to a building, sometimes I go flying over it. They should have spent less time making underwater look pretty and more time on the rest of the game.

Having said that, the game is like crack. I cant help but want to clear the next village and find the next collectable.
The enemy is an exceptional shot with a sawn off shotty at 300 meters away. its ridiculous. Them chasing you on bikes.. you can't even shoot back.. and on bikes they can run you off the road.. If you've got a friendly AI on the top mounted machine gun and the enemy is on a bike chasing you, the AI will never land a hit, where as the enemy will bleed you out relentlessly, and if they're too close the friendly AI wont even shoot as the gun doesn't aim that low. fuck its crap.. The enemy has a full cover system that they use to hide from you yet you are forced to just run and gun -oh wait, the dive/roll feature! fuck iiiiitts craaaaaaap. i'm so pissed off i bought this..

Having to find hidden items to liberate a location is the worse thing ever. It should be standard issue; go in destroy everything, liberate! but noooooooo you've got to run around a stupid fucking village looking for hidden packages while an unlimited amount of crack shot soldiers shot you down.

What about the lack of health kits or even AMMO? Mercs 2 all over again.
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At least with Mercs 2 your health came back.
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install it to the HDD and you wont run into repeating audio kenji.

I'm highly enjoying this game so sosososo far. I ignore vechiles completely, i find the grapple parachute combo works faster, and for the long trips i just go and and and and and steal a military jet.

And i also thought mercs 2 was great......
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So whos up for some Mercs 2 coop? :P
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install it to the HDD and you wont run into repeating audio kenji.

I'm highly enjoying this game so sosososo far. I ignore vechiles completely, i find the grapple parachute combo works faster, and for the long trips i just go and and and and and steal a military jet.

And i also thought mercs 2 was great......
Install install install to the HHHD? I'll give it a trytrytry.

Cerb i'll leave the mercs2 Co-Op to you and Necris :)

Why did they take the para-sailing away? What i mean is in JC1 you could have the parachute open and grapple hook a car and it would tow you a long.. another brilliant option now gone. You could reel yourself out and in.. gone.
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This has to be one of those Kenji moments, right? It's the backbone of the gameplay and I'm sure I've seen it in the videos.
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Nope. As soon as you grapple a car, you lose your parachute. And no reeling.
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Well that's just dumb! I was going to end up picking this one up, but I don't think I'll bother now.
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yeah i'll wait till it's on sale or bargain priced. I don't see the point of running out the day a game comes out and buying it. then everyone plays it for a week and it's forgotten.

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I'm playing this on PC. Though I downloaded it (illegally) and the copy I got requires me to turn down all the graphic settings for it to be playable. Which is BS because my system on paper, should be able to play it on max settings.

But from what I've played of it so far, it's good. I'm gonna have to by a controller to play it on my pc as the movement and weapon firing screams for a controller.
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Wish they added snow boarding.....This game is soooo set up for some serious over the top agent skydiving, landing on a mountain, snow boarding down, blowing up shit and free falling off the edge at the end onto a boat

Hitch hiking by para-sailing was the bomb though, and i have no idea why they removed it. I keep playing this and comparing it to Merc's 2.......I really just want them to throw in the air strikes from Merc's into JC2
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