RockmasteR

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User Review : Just Cause 2

Ups
  • Real Candy Graphics
  • Amazing Stunts, lots of vehicules and lots of explosions
  • lots of shooting and action
Downs
  • Eats your CPU at lunch
  • No DX9 support
  • not so good story

lots of vehicles to drive, a large island, lots of guns and a bad attitude makes JC2 a must!

Cars: Check
ATVs: Check
Bikes: Check
Airplanes: Check
Helicopters: Check
Driving all those above: Check
Lots and lots of Guns: Check
insanely Stunts and Jumps: Check
Big explosions: Check
Bad Attitude: Check
Amazing Graphics: Check

Phew, that was lots of Checks, so is that game worth playing?
Hell yeah!!
Just Cause 2 is one of those games that forgets about gravity, about the law, and everything that concerns real life. It's a large game with lots of vehicles to drive, lots of explosions, lots of guns and lots and lots of other things.
The island is so large that you even forget how GTA IV is large, hell, GTA IV is just a baby compared to this game.
One of the best thing in the game is the Chaos meter, where you have to fill it to unlock more missions, to get the chaos needed, you have to blow lots of stuff, play secondary missions and kill lots of bad guys.
Unfortunately, if you have Windows XP, you are out of luck, the game only supports Directx 10 that comes with Windows Vista and Windows 7 (that have DX11).
The good thing is that game is really optimized and have a great engine, so you can play the game with a Dual Core and Geforce 8500 GT and low settings
but to enjoy the game on a good resolution and on medium settings, a Core 2 Duo and a Geforce 9600 GT is suggested

Finally, Just Cause 2 is a great game for the players who loves sandbox games, and love stunts and great explosions (who doesn't!!!!!??) :P
the bad things about the game is that it only supports DX10 so no DX9, and the missions can be a little frustrating, and a little warning, if you get bored of large games, I won't suggest playing this game.
BUT if you enjoy all the things I said before, go ahead and dive in the world of Just Cause 2

Score
9.0
Graphics
The game looks really good, with the DX10 only engine, you will enjoy this graphical masterpiece
7.5
Sound
the music is not bad, the guns sounds real enough, but the voice acting is cheesy
9.0
Gameplay
lots of stunts, amazing explosions, and great variety of vehicles will make you stuck with the game
8.5
Fun Factor
with a very large island to explore and lots of missions and things to explode, this game will keep you entertained and coming back for more
Overall
8.3
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Knushwood Butt506d ago

The Yakuza Games

Haha, yeah, currently over 100 hours into Yakuza 0. Considering going for 100% and well on the way but may not get there. Cat Fights are a real chore.

blackblades506d ago

I use to be a trophy hunter, was getting around 20 to 30 platinums a year. Had a saying of Play-Beat-Platinum, play and enjoy the game like there wasn't no trophies, beat it and at least get 50% then look at them and see if I'll platinum and platinum it. I think death star was a pain, the servers was ending so i had to rush and play that for awhile none stop. NGs2 was hard because of that online trophy but easy if you had the partner that can do it for you while you grab the enemy attention. Grinding idk, death was grinding last one I had to grind for platinum literally 1 trophy needed was dungeon travler or something vita gave up on it. After that I stop trophy hunting get like a 1 platinum a year or 0.

Knushwood Butt506d ago

Yeah, if I enjoy a game I usually go for the platinum unless there are some unreasonable trophies in there.

For Yakuza 0 I've invested too much time in it to give up just yet and most of the content is good fun, apart from Cat Fighting which is broken and dull after a couple of fights.

DarXyde505d ago

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 was literally the last platinum I got on PS3. After that, I went into PS4 kinda deflated and getting them where it felt appropriate.

I genuinely HATED that platinum, but it was a personal challenge I took upon myself. It was a lot of "get 1,000 kills with [insert weapon]" and it got to be a bit tedious. Master Ninja really pissed me off, but the WORST which you alluded to was that bloody Gold trophy for missions that you needed to do online because the AI was useless and got wrecked in moments. I jumped on the game a bit late so I struggled with finding a partner for at least 1.5 months. After that, I burned out hard with trophy hunting. I still came back for games I really enjoyed (Bloodborne, Dark Souls III, Nier: Automata, and a few others that escape me) and low hanging fruit that was just a bit time consuming and I didn't want to buy new games at the time (Final Fantasy XV). Total, it becomes clear where I taper off since I've only plat'ed 33 games since there inception of trophies which really isn't much.

Screw Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 lol. That game was pure nightmare fuel.

blackblades506d ago

I say never force getting a platinum, its not worth the trouble definitely if it costing you to waste time on chore like grind. Those brainless design trophies.

hotnickles506d ago

Dead rising was the worst one I’ve ever tried. I haven’t tried it with the modern console “rest mode” but the 360 didn’t have that.

Duke19506d ago (Edited 506d ago )

Was GTa4 the on where you had to collect a shit ton of pigeons around the map and there was no help in finding them?

roadkillers505d ago

Yep. I’d say GTASA was more difficult since there were so many collectibles

Profchaos505d ago

The saving grace was that there was only on average 50 collectables with the two exceptions being graffiti and oysters from memory horseshoes and photos were capped at 50 each.

But for me it was all the other grind that was way more painful in SA like the car export lists which even with guides took way longer than collecting stuff

iivGHOST505d ago

There was a guide book that came out with the game that had all the pigeons in it. I actually still have it

Chocoburger505d ago

One of the more recent games I got a Platinum in was Killzone: Mercenary for Vita. What a crap game, that requires so much terrible grinding.

Awful game, awful experience.

outsider1624505d ago

Oh man..wish i could get a vita. I've been trying to get a preowned too(in my country) but no luck.

CantThinkOfAUsername505d ago

I can vouch for Just Cause 2. It was the reason I quit achievement hunting. 86 hours in, the game bugged on me during one of the last side quests (it failed no matter what I did) and my save file got corrupted. Wiped it off my drive and never looked back.

SonyStyled505d ago

I downloaded the ‘complete edition’ or whatever it was called for $2 about 7yrs ago in hopes of trophy hunting it for a platinum. It always sounded fun and I would like to commit time to it but not enough for a platinum trophy

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