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An okay Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Just Cause is a GTA-ish type game that is not as good as GTA. I found the game to be a little monotonous and frequently glitchy. There are some cool features in the game such as parachuting and flying a good variety of different planes, and the explorable area in this game is HUGE. To be honest though, I found myself playing it through just to finish it, even though I wasn't always having fun while doing it. If you can get it for under 15 dollars you may be satisfied with your purchase.

Horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is perhaps the worst video game i have ever played.

yes the graphics are nice but the gameplay is horrific, boring, and just plain not fun, i rented this game and after 5 minutes i had enough and i gave it another 20 minutes and no improvement.

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The music is anoying, the controls suck, jumping off of car roofs is only fun the first 20 times, not realistic at all, environment is unplayable despite it being a huge map (you have to stick close to the roads).

this game could have been amazing if they worked with rockstar but then again GTA 4 is coming out at the end of april.

if you like GTA, this game will make you mad lol. Don't bother buying or renting.

BLEH, Buy it only if it's onsale.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for 22 bucks plus tax and now I feel like I was ripped off. I played the game for maybe about an hour and have never picked it back up. I'm a little disappointed. It's like a crappy, blurry version of GTA, except in the bahamas.

Lots of cool stuff to ride on. But it doesn't seem like you could ever die. It feels like the game is made for a little kid. The aiming is pretty much done for you, yet the ability to drive just plain sucks.

Not even worth stealing.

Like a vacation...everything looks great, but I'm still bored.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

From a technical perspective, the 360 version of Just Cause stands out for a few reasons. The game engine is very capable and manages to render the huge areas on the fly with little loading times. Everything has a nice sheen and overall, the game looks awfully good. While the in-game models look fairly average, the island of San Espirito looks alive, bustling with activity. The sheer depth of it over the horizon is what grabs you from the initial parachute drop. This one-ups GTA...

Unfortunately, like a lot of similar games, you'll end up playing some repetitive missions, and the game can bog down a bit here and there (I found myself not playing it for a while as a result). It's not that bad, but you start to feel like you're going from one end of the island to the other, over and over, for nearly the same objectives. There are some side-quests to add some variety, but they too aren't all that interesting. Fortunately, Just Cause adds the addition of the grappling gun and parachute, which make exploring the island a bit more enjoyable, in and of themselves. With the meat of the gameplay being a bit lackluster, at least they made getting around in the game more enjoyable.

Not what I was hoping for

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game seemed like it would be awsome but I found it difficult to control, lacking in story and just kind of annoying to watch. I think that fans of the GTA format of games might like it but it has less story and activitys then even the first GTA for playstation. However I am not the best to judge this game since I am more a fan of KOTOR and Oblivion RPG style games then the GTA format

Big. Really Big. Maybe even TOO big.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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.

Most underrated game on the 360.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Just Cause is by far the most underrated and overlooked game on the 360. I've purchased this game, played it, and sold it to Gamestop, just as I always do with games. I have done this twice now with this title, and every time I can't help but buy it back again. The first time I popped in the disc I was just blown away by how visually beautiful the islands are. When you first start you are silently free-falling down over a deep blue ocean with mountainous tropical islands laid out before you. There is a dreamy wispy track playing in the background. Birds, planes, and helicopters all fly around in the distance as boats swish past down beneath you. You deploy your parachute and slowly float down to a white sandy beach where the shallower sky blue waters are lapping the shore. Its honestly just plain gorgeous. Within the first five minutes I really came to grasp with just how huge this sandbox is. You are asked to drive across the first island you are on. Now this alone takes about 5 minutes and you think "no big deal." But then once you bring up the menu and map you realize that this single island you just drove across is like only driving across the state of Rhode Island, with the whole United States still left to explore. There are a few bugs which I have encountered only on rare occasions, but that is to be said about pretty much any game that doesn't have a massive multi-million dollar budget. Overall, I am shocked that this game never got the respect it deserves. I'll definitely be keeping it this time.

could have been great...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

... I spent half an hour on this game before getting bored out of my mind then another painstaking half hour TRYING to enjoy it but it was a lost cause (Was that a pun?). This game could have simply been GTA with a little twist and it probably would have been a top seller but instead it fails miserably.
The enviroment may be huge but it ALL LOOKS THE SAME! The gameplay is unchallenging and there appears to be no enemy AI at all. All in all the whole thing becomes repetitive to the point where you no longer care about the story line or the character, or what the hell you're supposed to be doing. I hate to be blowing a trumpet for GTA San Andreas, but at least I got to know my way around that game without a map because there was enviromental change between cities and an engrossing storyline. Oh and you could jump out of planes in that game too!

Glad I Waited To Buy It

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've come to a conclusion about Just Cause-They decided that they're going to make everything so massive that people won't notice the little things. There is an array of tanks to choose from, not to mention a huge amount of cars, planes, helicopters, boats, spanning the spectrum of each type of vehicle. Yet when you crash these, with exceptions of mid-air collisions, it doesn't feel real at all. That's not to mention that the map may be huge, but it might as well be exactly the same. I read in a magazine that if the map for Just Cause were the size of your hand, the map of San Andreas would be the size of your thumbnail, but the map for San Andreas is loaded with so many more goodies than this map, which is a few large cities which are completely un-interactive, LOTS of forest and the occasional rural village which, unsurprisingly, looked just like the last one and the people are exactly the same! Coincidence? I think not.
Now, there are some redeeming features to the game. First of all, something which I have seen no game do with the exception of racing games themselves, is that Just Cause shows a difference between torque and horsepower. The Vampire will go up a hill the Fukada Tournament can't but conversely cannot go as fast in a straight line. This would, of course, be more beneficial if I still wanted to play the game.
Another bright spot was the ability to do stunts, though you'll quickly learn they aren't particularly exhilarating after a while and that they become more useful as a quicker means of transportation.
Then there is something which really killed me about this game, which I think the developers were both conscious of and were aware of just how obnoxious it was, which was the Americanism-the way one suave Latino man dressed in all black, with the help of an army clad woman who's always in a bathing suit and his boss dressed in a Hawaiian shirt can topple a dictatorship. Not to mention, the United States took it upon themselves to do so. Oh, and they decided to destroy ANYTHING that stood in there way. But that's not enough, they had to cause a thermonuclear meltdown on one of the Islands. Great.
So maybe its just me, and this game has its value in the area of cheap thrills, but call me stupid, I wouldn't buy this again given the opportunity to make that choice again.

Holy Crap This Game Sucks!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: June 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I understand that this game has really good graphics and a huge world, but this game just plain sucks. The storyline is not enticing...I found myself doing the same this over and over and over again. How friggin' boring!! The world is huge, but it all looks the friggin' same! The creators of this game really could have done a better job. I truly recommend that you do not buy this game....it sucks.

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