As with other games of this ilk (and in particular, Saints Row) progression is via the the three gangs that inhabit the island for whom you must work, interspersed with missions for The Agency, your actual employers. The hunt for the “gone dark” Tom Sheldon is the central focus of much of the game, and the paths to your target are unlocked gradually as you make progress through the game’s story. Yes, the principle feature might be (admittedly lush) jungle but the developers have learned from the mistakes of the first Just Cause, and the sequel offers much, much more to see and do: I’m not normally a fan of special editions, but the map that comes with the one for Just Cause 2 will be a must.
Whilst the initial few missions are structured to show you the ropes (literally, too, but we’ll come back to that) once the reins are off Panau is the ultimate sandbox. It might seem like lots of disparate game styles, but it’s really just showing you the possibilities.Īnd that’s the thing about Just Cause 2: the game’s what you want it to be. Take, for example, the game’s first half hour: having just found out his mentor’s gone rogue and narrowly avoided a heavy dose of anti-aircraft flak, our muscle-bound anti-hero is forced out of a helicopter, tasked with collecting some sensitive information in the dead of night, found hookshotting his way up a vertiginous casino and then faced with escorting a contact with half the island’s government army on his tail.
How about building razing explosions, or guns so powerful they’d make Van Damme blush? It’s all here, and whilst it might sound like every cheesy, over the top 80’s action film you ever watched, Rico Rodriguez’s second adventure is a fine example of how to tie everything together into a cohesive, confident (and fun) action game. A massive, sprawling expanse of land with more vehicles than Arnold Clark? Tick that one too. A grizzled, leather-clad anti-hero with a grudge bigger than his revolver? Check.
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