So i am currently a college student, full time, taking an overload of classes. Needless to say i dont have much money to spend on anything, let alone video games. But come on, I'm a gamer, nothing will stop me from getting my fix. I just have to pick wisely! Which is what i Thought i was doing when i read the reviews from about four seperate sites about Just Cause 2.
A beautiful game, that has its flaws, but is so much fun you won't notice them. So they said. But once i got behind the controller of this action game, i wished i had never taken the chance of scraping together $60 for it. $60 i will never get back.
Just cause 2 is amazingly beautiful. It has stunning graphics, and the game is a very good size. And they reviewers were also right about it taking time to complete 100%. It took mebetween half and hour to an hourjust to devistate a single army base. But after i reached that 100% marker on that single base, i was already bored.
The story line is a major let down, much like one of the review sites say, it is a "b-rated movie". The voice acting isn't As bad as some of the sites made it out to be, but it was still pretty bad. But the one thing i wish the review sites would have emphasized more were the glitches and terrible auto-aim mechanics.
Yes, gamespot said "you could be shooting a guy right in the face, but not a single bullet will hit him. If the auto-aim doesnt wantyou hitting your target, you're not goingto.Making this one of the few games thatpunish you for being a good shooter but reward you for being a poor shooter". They didn't make a huge deal about it however. Once i started a mission that took place mostly on top of moving vehicles, i noticed the amazingly horrid auto-aim system first hand and died several times because of it. You really have to get crafty in order to get the kills, rolling across cars, hanging off one side of the hood to hit a specific target, and so on. I could literally have my gun point blank to a soldiers face, unload an entire clip, and my bullets would seemingly disappear in mid-air. This was very frustrating and made the game an instant turn off for me. It seemed that the only time i could accurately and effiently kill an enemy was when i was riding in an army vehicle with a mounted cannon....i'd like to see the game make me miss then.
However; I do like the concept of hookshot'ing yourself to helicopters, throwing pilots out and taking control. I love the parachuting and plummiting to the earth at ridiculous speeds, waiting till the last second to yank that cord to slowly come to a gentle landing. The action seems pretty good, if only the game was more accurate with some sort of logical reasoning behind it.
All in all, this game is definetly a renter. I'm not even going to bother completing it (which is why i posted this blog rather than a review). The story line is a bore, the gameplay is not very rewarding aside from weapon upgrades, new guns and new vehicles you can purchase off the black market...this game has nothing going for it. It's much like a hack 'n slash game, but with a gun. No Depth. Run in a room, guns blazing, don't have to aim at all, and walk out in one piece. This is going to be a title that i attempt to re-sellat gamestop. Huge disappointment. Think of GTA combined with a horrible attempt at creating a secret agent feel, with a shotty auto-aim system, glitches in character voices, lack of story and substance,but with stunningvisuals.
6/10 (lowest score out of any game i own on the PS3 System). The only reason it got that high was because of a great enviornment and a hugeisland that you can freely roam.