Just Cause 2 Review

Hello again people of the internet, TKH here. Today I thought I'd do something a little different and do a review of a video game. The game I will be reviewing today is Just Cause 2. It's available on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. Although this is a game released back in March-April of 2010, I still feel I shall review it regardless.

The plot of Just Cause 2 is not one of the game’s strong points in this third person shooter. It's a very basic and straight forward plot that doesn't have many twists or turns in it.  Rico Rodriguez is the protagonist, with his aim being to overthrow the evil dictator Pandak "Baby" Panay and confront his former mentor, Tom Sheldon, on the fictional island of Panau, located in south-east Asia. The voice acting is also a major let down, with accents that sound truly horrible. If you're looking for a game with a detailed and interesting story, there are plenty of better games out there to cater for this. However, the game has many strong points within it.

 The game allows you to free roam around the game world, meaning that the game never forces you into doing any of the missions. If you wanted you could do the first tutorial mission which you have to do, and then proceed to explore the island. The map is very big in size, allowing for many hours of fun exploring it. The only thing about this is it can get boring pretty quickly at times if one tries to explore the map for extended periods of time.

The graphics of the game are very good. Being in an aircraft and looking down at the islands makes for some amazing views, with there being a good variety of different terrains, including deserts, forests and snowy mountains. The variety of vehicles in the game is also huge. There are about a hundred and fifty different types of vehicles, including planes, helicopters, boats and cars. This means that there are endless different vehicles to traverse the land in. There are also multiple different weapons in the game, with shotguns, assault rifles and pistols being amongst them. There is also a grappling hook for the player to use, being able to grapple to any object or person in the game. It even allows for the player to kill enemies in rather unique and different ways, for example by hooking them to the back of a moving car.

What the player will be doing for most of the game is blowing stuff up. Doing this gives the player money with which they can buy weapons and vehicles. Upgrading these is enabled by finding the vehicle and weapon parts scattered around the islands. The explosions look authentic enough and spectacular, with the amount of things the player can blow up being almost endless. The weapons are for the most part nicely balanced, although there is an advantage the assault rifle has over most other weapons.

In summary the game is very fun and can give you hours of arcade fun in a truly massive world. With hundreds of towns and military bases to explore, and plenty of upgrades and collectables to find, this game could keep you busy for hundreds of hours after you complete the roughly nine hour length main story, with many side quests that are available as well. Although the story and voice acting is not a strong point of the game, I still think it is a game that is worth a shot at playing, if you like third person shooters with plenty of explosions and action, with my rating for it being 8/10.