Good game if you like blowing things up. (PS3)
This is an exciting and action packed game. Sometimes too much in fact.
The point of the game is to basically cause Chaos by blowing up everything that has a Panauan Star on it. This ranges from fuel stations, Grain Silos, Water Tanks, Cranes, Satellite Dishes, Broadcast towers, Propaganda trailers and more.
You can upgrade and use a small variety of weapons; Pistol, Submachine gun, assault rifle, Heavy machine gun, Sniper rifle, Grenades, Grenade launcher, Rocket launcher and a couple others.
Your main mode of transportation is your parachute used in combination with your arm mounted retractable grappling hook. In fact one of the most interesting aspects of the game is the skydiving and base jumping from objects, planes and cliffs.
There are 104 vehicles in the game (and some through DL). Various cars, trucks, RV's, motorcycles, planes, helicopters and boats. A jet ski would have been a nice addition and I'm surprised there wasn't one. Many of these vehicles come with machine guns and rocket launchers to add to your mission of destruction.
I believe there are about 49 faction missions and somewhere near 10 story missions. However if you count the cities and villages as missions there is literally hundreds more. There are also somewhere around 70 or so different types of race challenges using either land, air, water vehicles and even some where you base jump from a building.
Given the enormous size of the islands, you will be playing for what seems to be forever trying to find all of the faction items, upgrade items and there are over a couple thousand total.
The point to completing the game is to also complete cities, towns, villages, military bases, airfields and other areas by destroying all marked objects and finding all of the upgrades and items. This is really the bulk of the game time, but is necessary because without these upgrades (especially the health upgrades) it is tough to survive a level 4 threat without dying.
That is one of my main issues with this game. If you play on Hardcore, expect to die a LOT. From the start of the game, just killing a few enemy soldiers quickly increases your threat level and enemy soldiers just keep coming and coming until you have mobs of these guys and a couple helicopters gunning for you. It almost gets ridiculous sometimes but after many many upgrades, you can eventually handle it fairly well.
It is a great game if you like exploring. There are a ton of gorgeous sights to see around Panau. There is desert, city, ocean and snow covered hills to explore.
The story missions are really just a small part of the game and aren't really all that interesting. This game is basically a explore and destroy type of game. It is odd to think however that somehow you are a friend of the people when you're finding drug caches for local gangs and blowing up everyone's fuel and water supply.
Overall it is a good game and I enjoyed the experience. It does seem to be repetitive at times and can feel like it takes way too long to complete, but it is a unique and fun game to play and can take up to roughly 100 hours to complete to 100%.
I would recommend it, there aren't enough games out there that give you the options that Just Cause gives you.Read full review
