Product Description
Just
Cause 2 is a stunning technological leap from the original - Designed
with 2nd generation software technology for a true high definition
gaming experience. New level of action gameplay in open environments -
Only Just Cause 2 delivers action in the air, on the land, and under the
water, plus multi-point, real-time vehicle movement and grapple-action
that allows players to grab nearly anything within 200 feet. Three times
as many missions as the original - All-new abilities and stunts. The
best open-world action on the market!.
Product
Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2501 in Video Games
- Brand:
Square Enix
- Model: 1000101836
- Released on: 2010-03-23
- ESRB Rating: Mature
- Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7
- Format: CD-ROM
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .40
pounds
Features
- Multi-point vehicle movement:
Every vehicle has multiple points inside and out to move between in
real-time, not cut scenes, jumping between multiple positions on a
single vehicle or to other vehicles¿ with over 100 vehicles
- Air,
land, water and underwater: Just Cause 2 delivers action everywhere
from 500 feet above to 50 feet below through jungles, snowy
mountainside, deserts, cities and more, with over 600 square miles to
explore and destroy.
- Nearly endless and open-ended game-play:
From deep missions to small jobs, to free exploration, players follow
the route they want when they want.
- Grapple nearly everything
within 200 feet, including enemies. Progressive destruction - vehicles,
building, enemies, and landscape. Pull off amazing stunts with Rico's
re-designed parachute.
- Weapons galore: Single and dual handed
weapons, rocket launchers, grenade launchers, explosives, and vehicle
mounted weapons.
Editorial Reviews
From the Manufacturer
On
the island nation of Panau, rival gangs wage war in the streets while
the ruthless dictator Baby Panay exercises a system of oppression and
corruption against his own people. Somewhere on the island, your friend
and mentor Tom Sheldon has disappeared with top-secret intel and
millions in Agency cash. As Rico Rodriguez, the Agency's most dangerous
weapon, you must infiltrate the island and locate Sheldon, setting off a
violent chain of events that will set Panau ablaze.
Basejump
and attack from above
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Use
your signature grapple to travel or to tether enemies and objects
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You
are an instrument of chaos
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Harness
Just Cause 2's unique parachute and grapple combination to create your
own unbelievable, high-speed aerial stunts. Whether free falling from
thousands of feet, hijacking enemy fighter jets in midair or blasting
through security checkpoints on the ground, use your imagination to
create maximum chaos. With hundreds of weapons, vehicles, missions and
Rico's trademark parachute and grapple, experience vertical freedom
unparalleled in the third-person action genre.
- Take to the
air like no other game. Experience total aerial freedom with the unique
parachute and dual grapple.
- Freefall, BASE jump, vehicle surf,
parasail, skydive, grapple, slingshot, leap between vehicles, hang from
helicopters, scale buildings. The impossible is within your grasp.
- Your
best tool is now a weapon. Fire two shots with the grapple hook and
attach unwilling enemies to high-speed vehicles, hang them upside down
from buildings, tether objects in mid air. The possibilities are as vast
as your imagination.
- Explore the island paradise; from
sprawling cities, secluded beaches and towering mountain peaks – more
than 400 square miles of your own personal playground.
- Hundreds
of objectives can be completed in any way or order that you choose.
When it's time for a break from Agency business, kick back and enjoy all
the attractions that Panau has to offer.
- Catch air on a
high-speed dirt bike, race across the sea in a power boat, or fire a
spread of rockets from an attack chopper – more than 100 land, sea and
air vehicles are yours for the taking.
| System
Requirements |
|
| Minimum | Recommended |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows 7 (Windows XP is
unsupported) |
| Processor | Dual-core
CPU with SSE3 (Athlon 64 X2 4200 / Pentium D 3GHz) | Intel Core® 2
Duo 2.6 GHz or AMD Phenom X3 2.4GHz |
| Graphics
Card | Nvidia GeForce 8800 Series / ATI Radeon HD 2600
Pro with 256MB memory or equivalent DX10 card with 256MB memory | Nvidia
GeForce GTS 250 Series with 512MB / ATI Radeon HD 5750 Series with
512MB or equivalent DX10 card with 512MB memory |
| Memory | 2GB RAM | 3GB |
| DirectX | Microsoft
DirectX 10 | Microsoft DirectX 10.1 with Vista SP1 |
| Hard Drive | 10GB
of free drive space |
| Optical
Drive | DVD-ROM drive |
| Sound Card | 100% DirectX
10 compatible sound card | 100% DirectX 10 compatible Dolby
Digital 5.1 sound card |
| Internet
Connection | Internet connection required
for product activation |
| Input | Keyboard and Mouse (Microsoft Xbox360 controller optional) |
Customer Reviews
9 pounds of awesome in a 3 pound bag
Just Cause 2 is about the
most fun that I have had with a PC game in a while. The graphics are
absolutely amazing, view distance, dynamic environments. The look of
this game is everything of Far Cry 2, with even more gasps of awesome.
You
play the part of Rico Rodriguez, a CIA agent who is about the most
physics breaking mass of testosterone I have ever seen. You are dropped
into a large, open country to drop an evil dictator out of power by
working with several different factions. To do this you have mass
amounts of vehicles at your disposal, a multitude of guns and explosives
and most importantly, a grappling hook and parachute.
This last
part is the best part of the game. Using the hook, you can climb
objects, access flying vehicles from the ground, pull people out of air
and even tie object together. Tie someone to a barrel and blast the
thing into space to see some real fun.
Initially, the game did
not impress me. The story and mission parts of the game reminded me of
Far Cry 2. Lots of repetition and little development. Then I hit a point
where I slammed my car into another car and flew them both off a cliff.
Seeing myself falling I decided to use my grappling hook to escape, but
only managed to snare another bystander. In the end I opened a
parachute and glided to safety all while watching one of the most insane
wrecks ever. The game is full of stuff like this. Tie a motorcycle to a
car and use it as a wrecking ball. Rope a plane and ride it around just
because you can. So many times I found myself asking "Man wouldn't it
be cool if I could to this?" Moments later, I did.
At this point I
found that the point of the plot and game is actually secondary to the
extreme sandbox fun in there. At points of my new found enjoyment, my
wife actually thought I lost my mind due to the non-stop laughter and
childlike joy radiating out of me. The fun factor of this game is higher
than anything I can imagine playing lately. Honestly, this game is pure
sandbox first, and an actual game third. Also, your destructive acts
are rewarded with guns and vehicles. How many games honestly reward your
childlike explosive needs?
As for the lack of XP support, well
we saw this coming. Not many people cried that Halo didn't work on
windows 3.1, so we really just need to move on here. DirectX 10 will
simply not work on XP, and the look and feel of this game is something
so amazing that you just need the best to make it happen.
If you
are on the fence about getting yet another FPS in a time where they are
roaming the earth, get off on this side now. This is not yet another
modern day shooter remake, nor are you wandering yet another WW2
battlefield, this is something truly special.
A ROLLERCOASTER OF A GAME
What you get if you cross Far
Cry's endless sandbox and Stranglehold's cool moves with TOCA's vehicle
realism and Bionic Commando's grappling hook fun? That's right, you get
JUST CAUSE 2. But this is not a perfect world.
Step into the
boots of Rico Rodriguez, the luckiest CIA agent ever on a mission to
...liquidate the ruthless dictator, Baby Panay. Said dictator is not the
most loved ruler to begin with - hence the three existing (and
bickering) factions that oppose him. As Rico you will undertake missions
of destruction to help these factions. Completing these missions awards
Chaos points that advances the story missions and unlocks better
equipment.
The game is just gorgeous! Set in an endless
archipelago world of Panau (actually about 1,000km2 or 400ml2) that
spans from tropical jungles to snow-caped mountains and dusty badlands
you can roam more or less freely. There are seamless day/night cycles
but what are really impressive are the weather effects. Like a
postal-office worker not rain or snow or sleet can stop Rico - and his
clothes will get wet or dusty accordingly. And if you decide to drive
keep in mind that cars will handle differently under different weather
conditions.
The guns are quite satisfying but what steals the
show is the grapple-gun. Grab from passing helicopters and hitch a ride
or tie your enemies to exploding gas-canisters and watch them skyrocket
to their exploding demise. There are a thousand uses for this weapon -
and they are all fun.
There is also an endless supply of vehicles
in this game. From rickshaws to super-cars and from jet-fighters to
cigarette-boats, you shall not have to walk another mile in your life
while in Panau. Crash them and see them accumulate very realistic
damages. That's the good news. The bad news is that most of them handle
like a semi-deflated boat.
Because not everything runs smoothly
in the archipelago. After the fifteenth time you blow up the same tower
and the twentieth time you plant explosives on a speeding car and escape
with your trusted parasail, you will start wondering if there is an
actual point behind all this mayhem. Then again, is there really a need
for a reason to keep blowing up stuff with great style?
To get on
this ride you will need either WinVISTA or Win7. I did not notice this
until I had already opened the box. I am still a loyal WinXP user at
home but, luckily, about two months ago I bought a new laptop and, of
course, it came with Win7. I never found gaming to be comfortable on
laptops (the keys are closer together and laptop mouses not as
ergonomic), but this is besides the point.
The point is that there
was absolutely no reason for this game to exclude about 40% of gamers
that still stick with their WinXP as they are compatible with all of our
classic games.
Moreover, the game requires STEAM to run which
means the copy you pay for will never actually become yours to keep.
Whether you find this acceptable or not, you can now make an informed
decision.
All in all, JUST CAUSE 2 is a game with some flaws but
it also offers exhilarating fun.
Not
perfect, but great fun amid outstanding visuals
I love great-looking PC games
and this one has outstanding visuals. Not only do they look good, but
they're fast too. What makes Just Cause 2 special is the new game engine
it uses, enabling very strong anti-aliasing and texture-filtering
controls right in the game. That's a rarity in PC games these days,
which usually dribble us a tiny bit of anti-aliasing on the edges - just
in order to get a decent frame-rate from their puny console-centric
engines. But Just Cause 2 roars along for me at 1920 x 1200 pixels, even
with all the eye-candy on. It's never yet stalled, stuttered or slowed
down. Now of course, eye-candy wouldn't matter much if the developers
had gone with the herd and chosen a generic dull brown color-scheme.
Thankfully they didn't. You're on 100 square miles of fabulous "open
world" tropical island with all the vibrancy and color that entails
(Fuel, eat your heart out), and there's not a creepy-crawly insect or
midge in sight. All the game's interface elements can be completely
removed (even the cross-hair, if you Google long enough) meaning you can
get a strongly immersive view of this vibrant game world - marred only
by the fact that you can't play in first-person (like you can in the
developer's other game 'TheHunter' which uses the same engine - so don't
tell me the engine can't do it). I won't mention all the fun elements
and the game mechanics, because others have covered those already. There
are a few things to warn about, though: you have to install Steam to
play it, and then it needs a net connection to play; the
opening/tutorial cut-scenes are terrible - bad voice-acting, appalling
lip-sync, and there's a tedious generic opening plotline; the camera is
_very_ loose which leads to some motion sickness. Hopefully that last
point won't matter too much, once you get out of the tutorial and can
start playing the game the way you want to. I'd like to think we'll see
some of the glaring flaws such as the lip-sync fixed with a major patch
soon.
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