@Vodoo: No way. 2. No question. It IS that Spiderman Game before Spiderman. because the city is ridiculously big and you get grapple\parachute.
I can see enjoying 3 casually, but f*cking 2 there is MORE than 100% completion worth of stuff. I have never played an open world game that I 100%, only to find I have to download a computer program to get the rest of the stuff.
Basically, with the city and all... JC2 actually oozes detail and variation. 3\4 just didnt do that. Like you never got tired in 2. Could always go to the desert, Winter Mountains, GTA city (pedestrians in street and all like its no joke). They more variation in bases, different objects to destroy. 3 just repeated... where were the gas lines and sh*t? (edit Or the deep missile silos with code entry? Or the custom satellite dish style bases?) There was nothing! (was there even a dance air base club a mile in the sky?)
2 is a masterpiece. It is actually the definition of a masterpiece. 3 fell TOTALLY off the map. Completely new team (JC2 team was doing Mad Max which actually used a modified JC2 engine and why the weather in that game is so good), and it showed. Sorry to be so bluntly honest but its true.
@Vodoo: Anyone who recommends 3 over 2 has never played 2. It is SO much better. The branch of Avalanche that made 2 was the same that Mad Max (decent game), while 3 and 4 were sent off and completely rebuilt by a newly opened branch.
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