Just Cause (Xbox 360)

Ever the tight fisted one, I waited nearly a year before Just Cause became affordable enough (I resent paying £40+ for a game) to justify a purchase. Just Cause recently shot for a limited period to around £10 on some online entertainment websites, namely in my case Play.com. You play Rico, a mercenary who takes up a series of missions to help revolutionaries take control of a heavy government controlled South American country. And literally that is the top and bottom of the story. The gameplay is quite diverse but incredibly tedious as there are main missions, and silly little repetitive side missions. The main missions are generally more ...  Read the complete review

'Viva la revolution' - a common quote you will hear throughout this brilliant game. This game should be advertising the Xbox 360. Why? This game has the most incredible, scenic, picturesque graphics I have ever known a game to have. The gameplay is just wild, and so unique with stunts being a natural part of the game. If you like jumping around and performing stunts, then this is more than the game for you! With your very own parachute equipped the whole time, the ability to perform crazy stunts is almost always at the push of a button! The size of this game is enormous as the islands cover a total of 1024 km², making it around 16 times larger than Grand Theft Auto, and ...  Read the complete review

One of the first games that was available on the Xbox 360, Just Cause is highly impressive on paper. Freeform sandbox gameplay? Check. A huge island to roam around, bigger than basically anything seen before on a game? Check. Beautiful next gen graphics with the mandatory pretty vegitation? Check. Superb levels of interaction, allowing you to comandeer any vehicle you see in the game? Check. And it looks good too. In fact, starting up the game you're treated to some seriously impressive action gameplay. Plummeting from the sky, you are instantly treated with a magnificent vista of the island stretching out in front of you. On the road below, cars look like ...  Read the complete review

Just Cause is an amazing game, which I always have the urge to play. It's a great game to just mess around on and purely have fun. This game is well-known for the amazing stunts you can pull off as well as the stunning graphics. You are a secret agent working to over-throw the government for a revolution. There are only 21 missions in the game, but they are each fairly long and some are a bit trickier than others. The game is set upon an enormous Island, consisting of many small islands. The map is enormous - bigger than GTA IV and GTA: San Andreas put together! To get around, you can use boats, cars, helicopters, planes and bikes. You can pull of great ...  Read the complete review

Ragdoll Physics, Sandbox Gaming, Open Environments. These are all recent buzzwords that computer games have taken on to describe how they play. The problem is that after one game successfully implements them and sells millions of copies another 50 games come out that are essentially clones. So what is the most copied game of the past 5 years? Grand Theft Auto, that’s what. We have now seen GTA like games set in malls, with aliens and now in the jungle. ‘Just Cause’ wears its heart on its sleeve; it’s an action fest that does not have time for real life. You play as Rico an undercover Hispanic agent working for the CIA whose job is to undermine the ...  Read the complete review