As you probably already know we at TwistedJunk are huge fans of Grand Theft Auto clones or games with a sandbox style in them. The team at Avalanche Studios and Eidos did do indeed a great job with Just Cause 2 and we are quite impressed with this game. As life isn’t perfect we can’t expect games to be either and we will tell you of the bad things first and to finish things off we will let you know of the good things because there is a  lot  is a lot of good in it.

The Bad

Just Cause 2 has some good things that were going to point out in the good section, but here is the bad. We are sure the game developers had great intentions with the game, but there were some things that needed to be in this game and it seems like the creators of the game just didn’t think of these things at all.

  • Vehicles and ways to get around
  • The vehicles and transportation system of this game simply suck, they are slow and the cars are bad quality which makes the game a little annoying being that the Island is huge. Accessibility of vehicles is another huge problem because while you are in one Panau’s many highways there are cars everywhere,  but try looking for a boat or an aircraft you will be lucky if you find one and then if you do someone is always trying to shoot you down and fuck up your ride.
  • Boats / The Bad
  • Boats are a problem because it isn’t that there aren’t any boats around, it’s that when you do manage to find one it always belongs to the army. I have found boats that belong to civilians, but even those get shut down. In a place as big as Panau you just can’t have too much of that because you will be swimming for hours to get to a certain location. There is a lot of sea in this game and without the proper boat system the game gets’s annoying people.
  • Aircrafts / The Bad
  • Aircrafts are another problem because you have to check your map to see which is the closest military airport around and some of the airports don’t have planes in them, which makes things even more frustrating than they already are.
  • Our suggestion.
  • Put in a future game a taxi system similar to the one on GTA where if you need to get to a location it just gets you there.
  • Missions
  • The missions in Just Cause 2 get really annoying because once you start one you can’t leave the place of the mission and if you do then the mission is basically over.

Suggestion: Make it optional

The Good

  • There is no doubt that Just Cause 2 is a good game and we know that it is, but as much as there are negative things about the game there are good and positive things. Below are the benefits of owning Just Cause 2.
  • Grappling Hook
  • The grappling hook is probably the main reason that and this game and I have a love hate relationship. A great thing that can be used as a weapon and simply to do fun stuff with.
  • The Para shoot
  • The par shoot is another feature that we love about this game, being that the transportation of the game sucks you end up using it the most because it is really the fastest way around the island.
  • The Map
  • The map is pretty impressive because it’s huge it almost feels like Just Cause 2 added each country on this earth to the game and that is a lot of real estate. Its good to be in a tropical region and then get on a plane and get to a location with snow, or a desert area and the developers did a great job at the feel of the game.
  • Loading Time
  • The great thing about this game is that once you load the game you don’t have to worry about loading time. if you die or get out of the mission area you will die and then have to wait a bit to get back to the mission, but not too long.

In conclusion playing as Rico Rodriguez brought back old memories of the original character and for sure it’s a game that we will play a lot as it is really fun. We were not happy with the accessibility of vehicles, and the amount of time that it takes to get to certain vehicles, but that’s ok if you like to repeat yourself a lot.  The missions were also annoying to play being that once started one you are basically on house arrest on that location which means you cannot leave that location. The good things simply do not make up for the bad things as there are more annoying things than fun things

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