This is for anyone who likes big explosions jumping off cliffs, just cause they can. 89 vehicles and 1,025km² map s
User Rating: 7.5 | Just Cause PS2
Just Cause is a game that is great, while it lasts. The map is so big that there is rarely a time when you say “I remember dieing here.” The jungle covers most of the map with a few towns and villages that inhabit the tropical forest. The game boasts a massive 1,025km² map size. The towns are usually small and the graphics on the houses are repeated in every major settlement, but this doesn’t ruin the ability to explore the urban areas. The jungle is well built for vehicles to drive through. Although it is hard to drive full speed through the tree areas without hitting anything it is made a little easier by the fact that some of the tree’s you can drive through. Even so if you do manage to drive in the course of a jungle and miss the solid tree’s you do have a high possibility that you will hit some rocks that are in random places on the floors of the rural area. Most of the cars react differently to the rocks, some are sent flying into the air and others just hit them and topple over only to blow up at the bottom of a ravine. Unfortunately, the graphics on the PS2 version have had to been made worse because the PS2 couldn't handle it on full graphics, if only the PS3 was out. This means that at times, usually in towns, you can see a juddering in the picture as the frame rate slows right down to cope with the high amount of graphical objects on the screen. Although this doesn’t ruin the overall game and it is still very playable even with this annoyance. Another small let-down with the game is the length of the story mode missions. Although every level is interesting and fun, they are mainly very easy and there isn’t very many to play anyway. There are many ways to complete the missions, you could parachute in killing every guard before you even set foot in the base or you could ram down the door with a truck then blow up the whole place with explosives, killing everyone on site. You could finish the game in a week of just playing casually for half an hour a time. For those who do like games to be impossibly hard, there are a couple of tricky missions in the last section of the story mode that just, in my view, are stupidly difficult and annoyingly long. But don’t let this stop you buying it, there are hundreds and I do mean hundreds of sub missions that involve you either killing people or stealing a box of weaponry. These missions are repeated over and over but strangely are interesting to attempt again and again. Completing these sub missions adds to the take over of that area on the map and when it is taken over, the police won’t try to attack you for just simply flying over. Some of these sub missions are liberations, where you have to take over a small village buy killing the government men and destroying road blocks until finally swapping flags, these are fun and once again there are many was to complete these, you could take a helicopter there and blow the whole place up or attack on the ground using stealth.
There are 89 vehicles to use including helicopters, planes, boats, motorbikes, cars and mini-subs. There are lots of helicopters ranging from a mini gyrocopter that has no weapons but is fast, through to a huge monster of a chopper that has mounted machine gun and homing rocket launcher. The boats are also widely different, some seem like they are powdered by snails and others go almost at the speed of sound with a machine gun and rocket launcher as standard. There is less of a variety of planes with about 4 to choose from. One being a normal mini plane you see in most pictures of the game and others are fighter jets with the full weaponry. There is one plane that is a huge passenger plane that can be found in an airport, how you’re meant to land it, I don’t know. The motorbikes and cars are hard to control at first but after some practice you can steer them away from the edge of cliffs, but only in the last second as the steering is sometimes dodgy and is very easy to slide about.
There are many different guns, some being rocket launchers and some being sniper rifles but they all do the same job, and very well. The guns are easy to use with an easy aiming system that locks onto the person the game thinks you most want to kill. Even if it doesn’t lock on to the right guy at first you can click R2 and select another person to exterminate. Overall this is a game you must get and try. You can do so much that it will not run out of interest to soon. This is for anyone who likes big explosions and the feeling of freedom when they drive a car off a cliff edge and parachute out to watch it explode on the ground below, just cause they can.
