Just 'Cause 2

[Aggressor and Usurper]

I bought it, having played it and thinking "OH MY GOD THIS IS AWESOME!" After 5 days, I was bored out of my tree, doing the exact same missions and finding the same collectibles.

The repetition was painful, and there was barely any reward, other than upgraded weapons which you use to grind more money to upgrade your weapons which you use to play strongholds to get more money to buy more weapons to grind more AAAAAARGH

So yeah. Traded it in for Mass Effect 2. It probably would have been more fun if I'd given it more of a chance, but I've never been more bored by a game.

 

[C95J]

the game is really fun, a bit repetitive sometimes, but if you like to blow just about everything up, then it is the game for you!

 

[Theninja'skatana]

Hey Escapists! I've been playing the Just 'Cause 2 demo, and I really like it. It's intense. And I was wondering, for owners of the full game, if it's the same experience?

Please answer in great detail.

If you like the same kind of intense over and over yeah
But the game world is big WAAAAAYA WAAAAAAAY big 40sq. miles aparently anyway the point is watch Zp.Though yahtzee is brutally honest he's still honest

 

[GrinningManiac]

Lets put it this way

My friend has this game. I have played it twice around his

I have had more fun in those two sessions than with entire games. The madness, the hilarity and the general "WOW, KABOOM, SWISH *BANG BANG* KABOOOOOM AWESOME YEAH BANG" of it all is just brilliant.

 

[LordLoudmouth]

actually about 9 to a dozen, dont remember

 

[Kif]

It is exactly the same as the demo... the whole way through... i.e. it never changes.

So it's fun to dip into every once in a while but once the initial excitement is gone it gets tedious.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Yeah, it's a blast. It's utterly insane, and the amount of shit you can blow up is unreal. It does, however, suffer from the same failings as Mercenaries and RF:Guerrilla. The blowing up of stuff is fun, don't get me wrong, but it's pretty much all there is to do so if you've played the game for an hour then you've pretty much played the whole thing.

 

[MercurySteam]

Hey Escapists! I've been playing the Just 'Cause 2 demo, and I really like it. It's intense. And I was wondering, for owners of the full game, if it's the same experience?

Please answer in great detail.

Don't make the same mistake I did. I bought it cause I was desperate and ended up selling it cause it didn't do enough things right. Yahtzee was right though. It does take a lot of effort to make destruction that boring.

 

[icyneesan]

Depends how much fun you have doing point crazy sh*t. Also I recommend the PC version for that mod that lets your hook shot become unbreakable. I had around 50 hours... but then my video card melted D:

 

[Baradiel]

Its a good game, and doesnt take itself too seriously. However, the gameplay gets soooo repetitive. It can really drag on.

 

[Quid Plura]

I had a lot of fun with it, but at the same time, I didn't play it in one stretch. It gets repetitive sometimes.

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

It's pretty entertaining but I would've never bought it myself. I borrowed it from a friend.

 

[Legend of J]

I got it for £20 and it was worth it defnitly would reccomend it for the flying alone (and i don't mean flying vehicles).

 

[Zhukov]

I played the demo and enjoyed it. Then I bought the full game and hated it.

The full game is basically just the demo repeated about 30 times over.

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Also, when I think of Just Cause 2, I think of the worst voice acting to ever come my way. No, really. If you think Bolo Santosi sounds bad, just wait till you encounter Tom Sheldon.

 

[vallorn]

Yeah, it's a blast. It's utterly insane, and the amount of shit you can blow up is unreal. It does, however, suffer from the same failings as Mercenaries and RF:Guerrilla. The blowing up of stuff is fun, don't get me wrong, but it's pretty much all there is to do so if you've played the game for an hour then you've pretty much played the whole thing.

only if you dont take the initiative and mix it up a bit.

sick of ground assaults? skydive from a high helicopter of crash a plane into the base.

sick of shooting? use explosives and the hookshot.

sick of blowing stuff up? do stunts in your car/plane/helicopter or go hunting for secrets.

 

[vallorn]

I played the demo and enjoyed it. Then I bought the full game and hated it.

The full game is basically just the demo repeated about 30 times over.

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Also, when I think of Just Cause 2, I think of the worst voice acting to ever come my way. No, really. If you think Bolo Santosi sounds bad, just wait till you encounter Tom Sheldon.

Tom Sheldon wanst as bad as Bolo Santosi, Leader of the revolutionary army known as the REAPAS!

 

[Dexiro]

It's surprisingly fun in small phases. At first it's awesome and you go on a massive rampage and abuse the fuck out of the grapplehook and parachute, then it gets boring.
Then you sort of dig into the details and hunt for easter eggs and fast vehicle locations and whatever else, and the missions actually start being quite fun

 

[Fortuan]

i definately suggest the game. I did the same thing play the demo and then got it. My wife was a big fan of watching b/c it was so insane

 

[AlphaOmega]

Look up ebay for nvidia promotional codes.
I got myself a copy for 14dollar, with mod goodness!

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Yeah, it's a blast. It's utterly insane, and the amount of shit you can blow up is unreal. It does, however, suffer from the same failings as Mercenaries and RF:Guerrilla. The blowing up of stuff is fun, don't get me wrong, but it's pretty much all there is to do so if you've played the game for an hour then you've pretty much played the whole thing.

only if you dont take the initiative and mix it up a bit.

sick of ground assaults? skydive from a high helicopter of crash a plane into the base.

sick of shooting? use explosives and the hookshot.

sick of blowing stuff up? do stunts in your car/plane/helicopter or go hunting for secrets.

I know the tricks of the Just Cause trade, but what I'm saying is that although there are many ways of blowing stuff up you still end up blowing stuff up. I know how you take down an enemy base is up to you, but after that your next mission is to blow up another base. And then another, and then another, and then another etc.

I like the game, I really do, but what I'm saying is it can get a little repetitive.