I'm about 2 weeks late in posting this video. The game was waiting on my desk at work when I came back from my vacations a few days ago, and I only now managed to play the game enough. Sorry about the delay!
Just Cause is one of those games you either like a lot, a just can't stand. Personally I'm enjoying every minute of it, no thanks to its incredible engine and the "over the top" gameplay. The demo wasn't that interesting, but the final game was much better for me.
As you can see in the video, Just Cause is incredible visually. Avalanche Studios really did an amazing job with the game engine, capable of displaying kilometers of ground, trees, sea, rivers and a beautifully animated sky with realistic clouds. And even if there are still some pop-in issues, this is still an impressive technical feat.
the gameplay is a bit more tame, but for me the free fall is still as fun as during the first minutes, I just love seeing the ground getting bigger so quickly and opening the parachute at the last moment. The gunplay is ok, with a classic but nicely working targeting system, and the vehicules can be handled correctly immediately.
The real problem with Just Cause is to keep playing until the end, as the story isn't really interesting, and the mission variety isn't exactly impressive either. Only the pleasure to find new place and new vehicles will keep you playing. Either it's enough for you and you'll enjoy the game completely, or you'll stop playing after a few hours.
As a bonus, I've also included an amazing video showing a full day/night cycle. It normally takes 30 minutes, but I've accelerated it to a bit less than 2 minutes. It's simply beautiful.
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Oh and the view from the top of the tallest mountain in the middle island (the one with a base right on the top) and then the amazing base jump you can do to get the 1000m achievement!
MS is shooting its own foot with these games!
Imagine if I was a young kid who just started searching around to see which next-gen console is goona be the one to choose!
So imagine I walk into a games-store and there it is watching Heavenly sword on PS3 Stand and Just Cause on xbox 360 stand.. mmmmmmmmmmmm I think we all now how the senario ends here..
But uts true you now how many times when i was in greece they used to have fusion frenzy 1 for xbox while showing devil may cry 3 for PS2!
I got so mad cause we all now how much superior xbox is to PS2 but few games-stores managed to do it anyway and they didnt care cause they loved sony!
Now.. if those type of stores can do that with the current xbox which was far more advanced imagined how much they can hurt 360 when PS3 is out!
MS promises that 360 will look better in the future.. well Mr Moore we need the good ones now!
All the big names all the good games all the 360 most wanted games are not out yet! Thats not just cause.. but only because of the fact that real next gen games take time!
i walked into a gamers store last week and I saw the 360 games! None of them was Must have considering the ones we are waiting for!
Maybe it is true that next-gen hasnt really started yet
Just Cause is a good game though. Not great, but as a 'Sandbox' game it does a good job.
Is it auto-aim? Seems all you do is hold aim and shoot....Doesn't sound exciting and the bit where u mounted a machine gun at the back of the truck was WAAAY too long.,....it was basically the whole footage! I got bored just watching it...
but beyond that with such limited supplys you're not exactly going to be able to get a ps3 anyway to play that heavinly sword....
the initial ps3 shipment and the following few months will go to all hardcore ps3 fanboys that will get one regardless not the general consumers... while the 360 sits ready to be sold with dozens of games looking awesome... hell GRAW and OBLIVION look better than most of the damn ps3 launch titles .... stop looking at CGI and start looking at their actual gameplay... even MGS' gameplay looks like crap now that we've seen it so give me a break.
Next gen has started, its just it seems people are so fasinated with frigging CGI its depressing... get over it and look at what the games for the ps3 will look like (like the mgs footage) not the CGI look at gameplay... the majority are about equal to the 360 launch titles but none are as good as the CGI or the spec video on what they wanted it to look like... once again Sony tech demos dont represent gameplay just like with the ps2... atleast with the 360 what we see is what we get end of story.
My problem here cchance is that PS3 has the mainstream appeal and that is a fact!
Just the other day a friend of mine said she was gonna bye her husband a gift and she said she'll wait for PS3 to come out! No this woman has no IDEA of videogames!
Styl the word PLAYSTATION has established the name as "Video games".
Microsoft is very hard to fight something like that! All I'm saying is that MS has to have all of its prospectives and angles locked and solid from Sony's bombs!
Blue Dragon not here! Lost odessey not here! Too Human not here! Gears Of War not here! Mass Effect not here! Smackdown Vs Raw 07 not here! Forza motorsport 2 not here! . . .and so ON and ON and ON !
I dont want 360 for the live arcade games! I want next gen NOW!
Even test drive unlimited i played the other day U see the cars and you go WOW and Then!! the surroundings ... the grass the buildings everything was soooooooo BLURY!! really not impressed! It was like i had and all computer and had the track detail indicating LOW! It was the same with Project gotham racing 3!
Even it says that is next gen! its not all there! It doesnt feel completely new!
And then I saw motorstorm and i was so pissed off! That game has some serious next-gen elements and thats why sony is smart!
MUD and DIRT! when did we see mud and dirt like that on PS2? Never! Thats why they chose to bring out a game that takes advantage of new elements!Who cares about the game mabe beeing crap or something! The point is that SN manages to deliver What people want to see! People like that girlfriend of mine i just mentioned!
Microsoft needs TOP TOP TOP quality and nothing else! Its the only way!
And kissing japanese asses wont give MS anything but humiliation!
Peter Moore Calling Japanese xboxfans the most dedicated from all of fans tha was just stupid! Why not begging them instead! Japan is geting litle stupid ports for 360 every month and the rest of the world is still waiting for some true nxt-gen games!
..nice
Just Cause is aight. Awesome graphically but I wasn't diggin the gameplay that much. meh
Sidons cool it with the "!!!" OK
It makes you seem twelve.
Save your money.. Sompe proper games coming in upcoming weeks.
Just 'cause.
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