Product Description

In Just Cause, you take on the role of the flamboyant Rico Rodriguez - a specialist in regime change. The island of San Esperito is suspected of stockpiling WMDs and it's your job to negate the threat to world peace. This little tropical paradise is about to implode as various factions vie for power. Play the island's factions off against one another; incite a rebellion among the masses; or build alliances with rebel forces and drug cartels. Explore over 250,000 acres of mountains, jungles, beaches, cities, and villages. The island can be explored by land, sea, and air -- at your disposal is one of the most varied and exciting array of vehicles ever seen in a Video game. Wealth of missions side-missions, bonus missions, and many more -- plenty of action throughout the islands Your support team, Sheldon and Kane, provide you with reconnaissance info, extraction and vehicle drops

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3453 in Video Games
• Brand: Eidos
• Model: 788687200523
• Released on: 2006-09-26
• ESRB Rating: Mature
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .53" h x 5.75" w x 7.75" l, .25 pounds

Features

• Freeform gameplay - Approach missions in any way you like, or break off from the fight and enjoy exploring the islands
• Huge environments with over 250 thousand acres of land to explore - The largest environment ever seen in a game
• Over-the-top stunts - Jump from vehicle to vehicle, parasail, skydive, and base-jump
• More than 100 of the most varied, exciting array of land, sea and air vehicles ever seen in a video game
• Cutting-edge technology delivers a huge, beautiful, detailed world while eliminating loading times

Customer Reviews

Amazing...
This is one of the most amazing games for the Xbox 360 in terms of its graphics. The enviroment is expansive and the most realistic I've seen for most 360 games. It just makes you want to "get in" the game...amazing graphics. The missions are quite easy to understand and most missions are fun to do. It's an open enviroment so you can literally go anywhere on the map even off road. There are tons of vehicles to steal from civilians, gangsters, and even cops and the military. I have drove in the game numberous cars, trucks, motorcycles, ATV, boat, helicopter, an airport buggy (those that haul the luggage bags) and even a bulldozer I found in a field.

You'll love this game if you like adventure type games and doing missions. You can built you rep with the local guerillas and druglords and shoot cops and government officials. Somethings I found was that the screen gets jaggy when I move the screen or camera really fast, maybe that's just because I have it set on 1080i on my HDTV. However, the characters looks smooth, much like the ones in Dead or Alive game. Because of the gorgeous graphics I rated it a 5, but after a while you might get bored of running around all across the map to get to a certain location or do a mission. Other than that...spectcular game!

Big. Really Big. Maybe even TOO big.
This game has an extremely large, totally open world. The main problem I have with this game is that it is TOO big. Because they elected to have "Safe Houses" in which you could save your game and respawn after you die, the gameplay is a little bit frustrating. For example, you can drive to a mission point for a good ten minutes, get there, die, and then have to start back over driving another ten minutes. The safe houses themselves are too far away from each other, as there are only about forty or so on this island that has at least 100 settlements that need to be liberated. Which brings me to my second point: the settlement liberations, which are a main part of the game, are all TOTALLY IDENTICAL, except for minor details, like how much the road bends or how far the road blocks are from each other. Much more fun (and Frustration) can be had by liberating cities. Unfortunately, there are only maybe 6 cities in total. Totally the opposite of the liberations, the side missions and main missions are totally unique and, even though I have been playing this game for a good 4 months, I still occasionally stumble upon a new type of side mission.

The story itself is pretty well done. You are Rico. You cause crap to happen. Bad crap. You are an expert in "regime-change", a term used a good fifteen times throughout this game. The other main characters you encounter along your journey are each unique, even though only maybe three character models were created for those you have to kill.

This game is in no way realistic. For example, you can steal a car right in front of the police, and they won't care. However, if you bump into another car in the car you just stole, the fuzz will be on you like white on rice. Cliches aside, the physics are totally unrealistic. I went six kilometers into the air, then jumped out of my plane. I landed, without ever deploying my parachute, in the ocean. I was totally okay, not even hurt. Also, Rico has serious ups, as he can jump easily from a stationary car to a helicopter flying overhead.

Minor gameplay tweaks were needed for this game to receive 5 stars in the fun column, but overall it is a very satisfying, free-roaming shooter with stuntman-like moves and lots of action.

Freefalling fun
I knew I liked this game after jumping out of a helicopter at about 15 thousand feet, freefalling AFTER the helicopter (with clouds rushing by), grabbing onto the falling helicopter in freefall, and getting back and flying off again with about 1500 or so odd feet to spare. :) The glide ratio of the parachute took some getting used to (it's much higher than typical skydiving parachutes), but it's for the best since it allows one to travel really far under canopy. Fun stuff.

If you like playing around with a parachute this game is a good time. :)