![just cause 2 review just cause 2 review](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSxU8DEYYFpA3NFBxsdzJC8imE2Azyr8TAutANRjghjMR/just-cause-2-720x480.jpg)
There’s lots of chasing leads and searching for contacts and working for criminal factions, but really that’s all there is to it. The president is assassinated and replaced with his sadistic son, who promptly stops sending the usual oil tribute to the US, so you get sent in to find out what’s going on and (eventually) overthrow him. We’ll get it out of the way quickly, because it’s not something we need to dwell on.īasically, there’s a fictional country called Panau which has always been allied with the US. The story, by the way, is both simple and boring and doesn’t really merit the big find-the-memory-cards sequence that Avalanche opens the game with. There’s the occasional parachute jump to further liven it up, but even that is rendered a little disappointing by the fact that you are, at that point, still learning how best to control your character, Agent Rico. They’ve chosen to start the game off with a big injection of storyline and fetch quests, throwing the occasional awkward gunfight in there to placate you while the necessary blunders are dealt with.
![just cause 2 review just cause 2 review](https://gamecritics.com/files/images/just-cause-2-screenshot-02.jpg)
So, what makes Just Cause 2 such a slow-burner on the enjoyment graph is the fact that the developers don’t embrace that immediately. It’s only the chance to see something new go boom that keeps you playing. The story is negligible to the point that you’d only notice it if you got a papercut from the script and the characters are a bunch of unsympathetic arseholes that make you want to turn the speakers off.
#JUST CAUSE 2 REVIEW MOVIE#
It’s the game-equivalent of an Arnie movie the type of thing you watch because of the big, pretty lights and nothing else. Just Cause 2 is an explosion generator, that’s what.