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    Just Cause

    Game » consists of 6 releases. Released Sep 27, 2006

    Just Cause is an open-world action game that has you play as Rico Rodriguez, a black-ops agent helping guerrillas and cartels to overthrow the government of San Esperito.

    will2k123's Just Cause (Xbox 360) review

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    Just Cause review

    I got Just Cause off my brother for my birthday.
    When I started to play it, I found it fun, but the entrance to the game  was boring.
    You're parachuting down from a plane for about 3 minutes, going to help some guy on a beach, and the bad guys just HAPPEN to show up as soon as you arrive.
    You're also pretty much invincible, and the bad guys are crap shots, so getting rid of them is easy, however, I wouldn't expect insane difficulty for the start of a game.

    Then you're being driven around, going to your safe house, shooting things from your truck with a mounted machine gun (Which just so happens to have unlimited ammo and no reloading).

    Then when you're in your safe house, you either choose to go on missions, or free roam.
    I started off free-roaming, being the sand boxer that I am, and I found it good, but police were too quick to jump on you.

    You can go speeding past them at any speed you like and they don't bat an eyelid, but tap into another car, and they're after you like flies to a bug zapper. This is a problem that Driver for the PlayStation avoided. If you sped though traffic lights and a cop was about, they'd chase your ass down.
    It was a more realistic sandboxing experience.

    Glitches.
    Oh the glitches.
    If you speed down a fast car as quick as possible, then plow it into a tiny little rock, there's a chance that you'll smash into it and your car will set on fire...

    or you'll fly into space.

    Seriously, I went flying vertically upwards multiple times when I hit a rock.

    One time, I went straight out to the edge of the game in the sea, and dove in.
    Since the cops were after me, I now couldn't go back up, or a parrade of bullets would make me swiss cheese.
    So I had to swim back to shore (A LONG WAY) under water. Luckily, you don't have to breath, so it's all good.

    But underwater, I found strange textures begin to happen.
    I was swimming along and saw grass. I was like 'Ok, maybe it's just moss or something' then I saw along and I saw a tree.
    A TREE.
    UNDER WATER.

    WHAT!?

    Also, at another point, I crashed my car in a massively awesome way, and then when I found a similar car in a parking lot, it's front was jammed in the ground, so it was at a diagonal.

    However, the game is pretty good.
    It can be fun flying over to anywhere you want, but the 'Skills' that you have, where you press a button and you do a stunt, seem a bit lacking.

    The missions I tried, but found myself doing the same thing over and over, so I gave up on that.

    It's an OK game.
    It's not perfect, but it's not horrible either.

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