Just Cause 2 - am I missing something?

Cutshaw said:
It's one of the rare few modern games that doesn't hold your hand and push you from scripted event to scripted event. It's really what you make of it, it's a place to play. Attach a truck to a chopper and drag it through a camp like a wrecking ball to assassinate a General, see how many different ways you can kill soldiers in a base takeover. Stunts, exploration, amazing graphics and sense of space. A story while not to be taken seriously, is funny and entertaining in it's b-movie glory. Ninjas? Exciting and well done physics. Unheard of optimisation.. etc etc

Experimenting with the grapple is obviously key. One fairly tough mission had me climbing a tower on an island full of enemies and just using the grapple I got it done without using any ammo. Fire the grapple into them, aim up at one of the outstretching girders, then fire the other end. They would bounce around screaming, suspended in air for a bit then when you cut the grapple, they fell hundreds of feet to their death. Go off-road in a chase with the military, fly off a cliff you had no idea was coming up, bail out and skydive. Hijack a commercial jet and fly it into a building if you like.

Be creative.

If it all sounds like too much work and you just want to switch off and be entertained, then that is absolutely understandable and Just Cause 2 just isn't for you. Move on.
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+1

This game is all about using your imagination and creativity. Ofcourse you as a single person dropped off in 400 square mile of pure beautiful island and being able to go anywhere is gonna feel 'empty' subjectively.

The total freedom to explore the sheer scale of the island which appears to be even bigger than lingshan island in crysis1 is just awesome and purely satisfying. :cool:
 
Cutshaw said:
It's one of the rare few modern games that doesn't hold your hand and push you from scripted event to scripted event. It's really what you make of it, it's a place to play. Attach a truck to a chopper and drag it through a camp like a wrecking ball to assassinate a General, see how many different ways you can kill soldiers in a base takeover. Stunts, exploration, amazing graphics and sense of space. A story while not to be taken seriously, is funny and entertaining in it's b-movie glory. Ninjas? Exciting and well done physics. Unheard of optimisation.. etc etc

Experimenting with the grapple is obviously key. One fairly tough mission had me climbing a tower on an island full of enemies and just using the grapple I got it done without using any ammo. Fire the grapple into them, aim up at one of the outstretching girders, then fire the other end. They would bounce around screaming, suspended in air for a bit then when you cut the grapple, they fell hundreds of feet to their death. Go off-road in a chase with the military, fly off a cliff you had no idea was coming up, bail out and skydive. Hijack a commercial jet and fly it into a building if you like.

Be creative.

If it all sounds like too much work and you just want to switch off and be entertained, then that is absolutely understandable and Just Cause 2 just isn't for you. Move on.
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This.
It's a great game. Following the story really isn't the main attraction of JC2, it's the fact that it lets you use your own imagination to create as much havoc as you can in as many ways as you can dream up.
Most games do it all for you and gamers don't need to use their own imagination anymore. JC2 really is pure sandbox fun.
 
Bleek said:
I purchased Just Cause 2 in the Steam Sale last year, didn't read the small print and couldn't play on XP.

A year later I have Win 7, install JC2 and play.

Aside from the nice environments and novalty parachute this game feels very wooden and linear, re-spawning enemies, vanishing vehicles and bodies, simple mechanics, no internal areas, no destructible terrain aside from props etc.

Have I missed something because I remember a lot of people raving about it? :confused:
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Agreed. I got bored of it after about 2 hours.

Also the voice acting is the worst I have heard in a game. Just terrible.
 
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Bleek said:
So I need to explore more, are there plenty of hidden treats to uncover then?
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That entirely depends on what you think is a treat. Personally from what you've said I wouldn't waste your time.

I'm no JC2 fan boy, I prefer the GTA and Saints Row series but JC2 is quite a nice step up in scale and freedom and packs almost as much fun, and sometimes more fun than SR3 for the utter mayhem you can cause.

A game like this doesn't need to be about in-game missions which are drip fed to you over the coarse of several hours (SR/GTA) it can be about exploring, finding nice areas or simply trying out something daft which is what JC2 lets you do to a far greater level than GTA/SR have so far.
 
When I borrowed this off a friend on the xbox when it first came out I thought it was rubbish.
I then started seeing people rave about it online and I bought it in the steam sale last year for £2.99

43 hours later and I still play it now and again just for kicks. I haven't even touched the story yet
 
vintage-x said:
When I borrowed this off a friend on the xbox when it first came out I thought it was rubbish.
I then started seeing people rave about it online and I bought it in the steam sale last year for £2.99

43 hours later and I still play it now and again just for kicks. I haven't even touched the story yet
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Hats off to Avalanche they really done a good job giving the PC version the extra oomph and it still running really well and being so scaleable. It's almost like they took pride in their work.. or something crazy like that.
 
Cutshaw said:
Hats off to Avalanche they really done a good job giving the PC version the extra oomph and it still running really well and being so scaleable. It's almost like they took pride in their work.. or something crazy like that.
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Yeah. Its amazing that you can go anywhere and not experience any slow down such as waiting while system loads next set of area as used to happen in the old days.
 
Didn't like it either, blowing up the same props and killing the same stuff got very old for me too. As beautiful and open the game was, there was very little to do outside of barrel killing, vehicle crashing.
 
Bleek said:
That's my point, I wanted it to be so much more but it's not.
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Did you find the mission to destroy the space rockets? Did you go onto the giant flying airship? There's loads to do and destroy. I'd have loved the scenery to be more interactable, but there's plenty there to destroy. Combat is a bit naff too, but this is still a game I dip in and out of... Might re-install it :)
 
Superman mod. That is all.

Also 140 hours played so far! :D

I was mad about it for ages then dropped it for nine months, it's been fun coming back...yes it is very samey and the cities where you start can be a bit boring if you are trying to get 100% but it's also incredibly freeformm and that's where it's genius is.
 
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