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Just Cause 2: Causing Harder
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Wikipedia wrote:Just Cause 2 is a sandbox style action video game currently under development by Swedish developer Avalanche Studios and Eidos Interactive and published by Square Enix. It is currently set for a release in March 2010. It is the sequel to the 2006 video game Just Cause.
Just Cause 2 uses a new version of the Avalanche Engine, Avalanche Engine 2.0; an updated version of the engine used in the original Just Cause. The game will be set on the other side of the world, compared to Just Cause, on the fictional tropical island of Panau in Southeast Asia. Rico Rodriguez will return as the protagonist, who has to overthrow the evil dictator Baby Panay and confront his former boss and handler, Tom Sheldon.
Wikipedia wrote:The game-play is similar to that of its predecessor, in which the player is free to roam the game's open world at will, without having to focus on the game's storyline, much similar to that of other sandbox style action games, like Mercenaries.
Several new additions and improvements to the game were explained by the lead designer of the game, Peter Johansson. The AI has been rewritten to use a planning system which enables enemies to do all sorts of new things. For example, the enemies will use the environment to their advantage, taking cover behind objects, and adapting dynamically to the objects around them. The hybrid aiming system is also a new feature that helps the player to quickly aim at enemies while leaving the player in full control over the cross-hair; as such, the player is rewarded for skilled manual aiming. It also enables you to pinpoint specific limbs manually and have varied crippling effects on the enemy. Just Cause 2 also has an adaptive difficulty system, gradually scaling the difficulty as the player does more in the game.
The game takes place on the fictional island of Panau, situated in the Malay Archipelago. It is geographically similar to both New Zealand and Hawaii.
There are several new weapons in Just Cause 2, such as a rocket launcher with laser-controlled rockets, a one-handed grenade launcher, remote-triggered C4, and a detachable mounted minigun. There are several new vehicles, including a Boeing 737. There is a greater difference in the handling of different vehicles. Ground surfaces now have a large influence on the player's controls (e.g. while a sports car may be suitable for driving on a flat road, it is not particularly suitable for off-road driving). There is also a real-time deformation system and moving parts that can come loose from vehicles.
The player must acquire weapons and vehicles in the field of their own accord, as Rico doesn't have official support from the agency in this game, but later information revealed you can acquire weapons and vehicles off the black market.
Early in the game the player contacts a black market supplier, from whom weapons can be purchased and vehicles and get them delivered to the player's location via heavy drop. As the game progresses, additional weapons and vehicles become available on the black market. Additionally, all weapons and vehicles on the black market have parameters that can be upgraded in several steps, by building upgrades with weapon and vehicle parts. There are over 2,000 parts that the player can acquire.
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Xbox 360 Demo : http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802534307e7/
PC - Steam Demo : http://store.steampowered.com/app/35110/
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Looks like I'll be putting this on my 'rent or possibly buy at a discount' list.
edit: okay, that looks pretty damn badass. Either the devs learned a hell of a lot or it's a different crew doing this one. Definitely gonna rent this one.
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Forget it...
Holy shit
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And no matter how absurd it is, juggling ragdolling corpses with gunfire has been a favorite pastime of mine since Hitman 2.
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Hopefully they worked on that for this sequel.
just cuz
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But the basejumping and grappling hook and tying enemies to O2 tanks and jumping around on the grilles of cars was pretty realistic if you ask me... :P
With better physics (that is to say, with physics) and the ability to grapple corpses to my car, well, I think I'm pretty much sold on getting this.
Just as silly as the original, but it looks like there's a lot more fun ways to kill people now!
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Can a jetpack hook enemies to red barrels? Or to the back of a jeep?
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Couldn't I just use something like the nail gun from FEAR for that?
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Then go play F.E.A.R.
Or Half-Life 2.
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Just Cause, duh.
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Anyway I hope that this is actually a good game and not just a forgettable effort that the first one seems to be.
Plus the explosions look awful, currently.
That said taking cover on the front of a moving car is hilarious.
I think I'll have problems playing other open world games after RF:G though.
This one looks to improve everything the first did, which is insane since I was in love with the first.
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I never asked for this!
Looks way better than the first one, graphically and entertainment wise.
Now if this had co-op I would buy it 100 times.
It was also a pc game, which I remember as being not buggy in any way whatsoever and looking quite good.
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If you are going to stretch the suspension of disbelief that far, why not just make a super-ninja game?
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You are. That's kind of the point. You are an off-brand James Bond without that pesky discretion getting in your way and only one gadget, the Grappling Hook of Awesomeness.
This does look like ludicrous amounts of fun, though. I really should've expected as much the moment I heard "scorpion made of guns."
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