Ahmed
BrentonJust Cause
October 24th 2006 06:00
Available on: Playstation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, PC
Just Cause is the videogame worlds answer to such movies as ‘Once upon a time in Mexico’, all the way down to the crazy as stunts you can perform in game.
The story revolves around revolution on the troubled (fictional) country of San Espirito, a beautiful clump of island paradises whose citizens are oppressed under a government that sells drugs to make its money.
You play the role of ‘Rico Rodriguez’, a ‘special’ CIA operative. If Antonio Banderas was a videogame character he would be envious of Rico Rodriguez who is essentially a rip off of Antonio Banderas in the first place, albeit with lots and lots of steroids injected for good measure.
It reeks of Hollywood type stunts, special FX and outlandish physics (the latter probably due to poor programming). Mind you this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, if you can turn off your brain you’ll find it really enjoyable to parachute off the deck of a fast moving speed boat and go flying up in the air, then using a grappling hook to grab onto a helicopter and parasail it over a prison and letting go and parachuting down right in the middle of it, kill all the guards with duel wielding Desert Eagles and escape with the eccentric and brave leader of the rebellion… Yeah, it’s about as clichéd as it gets on all fronts.
The game is sandbox style ala Grand Theft Auto, that is you can pretty much go anywhere you want in the game with no restrictions. It is set on a few large tropical islands, the graphics are actually quite good too, especially from a distance when you get a birds eye view of everything.
While the gameplay is fun, it is limited, you can only perform so many stunts and only a few types of missions, it does get boring and repetitive quite quickly, this isn’t something you, or your kids are going to enjoy for very long no matter how much you or they like violence, cool cars and crazy stunts.
Like any dumb fun movie, you’ll have fun, but not for long, you end up wishing there was something to think about while playing, not just mindlessly killing the bad guys.
Controls are a little bit awkward, they just don’t mesh in a way that you can feel comfortable with. I especially don’t see how kids will be able to adapt to it.
There is a lot of violence in the game, unlike real revolutions in this game what you do is go into any given town or city on one of the islands and with the aid of a bunch of hapless rebels kill as many government officials as possible, mainly police and soldiers, before reaching sandbox strong holds and lobbing grenades to destroy them. This is essentially what you’ll be doing by and large aside from a few other bits and pieces of jobs. It is very similar to Grand Theft Auto. You can kill anyone you see walking by you, however the difference is that there are no prostitutes or gangsters on the street. You don’t get money for killing people either, and the only people you'd have motivation to kill are government officials, such as soldiers and police.
Unfortunately I find it hard to recommend this, its benefit isn’t much, it doesn’t have what makes games worthwhile and satisfying to play, there literally is no real feeling of accomplishment from achieving anything in the game, sure its fun doing it, but it just doesn’t translate to ‘yes I done it!’ after you're done with it.
Box Cover
The scenery sure is pretty
It reeks of Hollywood type stunts, special FX and outlandish physics (the latter probably due to poor programming). Mind you this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, if you can turn off your brain you’ll find it really enjoyable to parachute off the deck of a fast moving speed boat and go flying up in the air, then using a grappling hook to grab onto a helicopter and parasail it over a prison and letting go and parachuting down right in the middle of it, kill all the guards with duel wielding Desert Eagles and escape with the eccentric and brave leader of the rebellion… Yeah, it’s about as clichéd as it gets on all fronts.
The game is sandbox style ala Grand Theft Auto, that is you can pretty much go anywhere you want in the game with no restrictions. It is set on a few large tropical islands, the graphics are actually quite good too, especially from a distance when you get a birds eye view of everything.
While the gameplay is fun, it is limited, you can only perform so many stunts and only a few types of missions, it does get boring and repetitive quite quickly, this isn’t something you, or your kids are going to enjoy for very long no matter how much you or they like violence, cool cars and crazy stunts.
Like any dumb fun movie, you’ll have fun, but not for long, you end up wishing there was something to think about while playing, not just mindlessly killing the bad guys.
Free Falling in Just cause, note lack of parachute, but will pop out of no where if so desired
Controls are a little bit awkward, they just don’t mesh in a way that you can feel comfortable with. I especially don’t see how kids will be able to adapt to it.
There is a lot of violence in the game, unlike real revolutions in this game what you do is go into any given town or city on one of the islands and with the aid of a bunch of hapless rebels kill as many government officials as possible, mainly police and soldiers, before reaching sandbox strong holds and lobbing grenades to destroy them. This is essentially what you’ll be doing by and large aside from a few other bits and pieces of jobs. It is very similar to Grand Theft Auto. You can kill anyone you see walking by you, however the difference is that there are no prostitutes or gangsters on the street. You don’t get money for killing people either, and the only people you'd have motivation to kill are government officials, such as soldiers and police.
Unfortunately I find it hard to recommend this, its benefit isn’t much, it doesn’t have what makes games worthwhile and satisfying to play, there literally is no real feeling of accomplishment from achieving anything in the game, sure its fun doing it, but it just doesn’t translate to ‘yes I done it!’ after you're done with it.
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Comment by Jay
Hmmm - having read that maybe I WON'T buy it after all
Laters
Jay
Comment by Ahmed
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Comment by Ahmed
techy.Bytes
Video Gamer Kids
Little Green Foosballs
PolyKicks
Qwerk
Cinema Three
Oh, did you miss my comment on the other post?