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Just Cause (Xbox 360) | 
 enlarge | From: Eidos
Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
Buy Used: £4.95
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 2249
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: action-games
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: Video Game
Age: 15 - 18 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PJUSTTEN07
EAN: 5021290027114
ASIN: B000H0JXGA
Release Date: September 22, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: 100% Guaranteed, Sameday 1st Class Dispatch, boxed with instructions
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Product Description
Your world... Your rules! In Just Cause, you are a field operative and specialist in regime change backed by a top US secret government agency who will overthrow the corrupt government of San Esperito.
Amazon.co.uk Review:
In a nutshell:
Grand Theft Auto might give you the freedom of a whole city or county but in Just Cause you've got the task of overthrowing a 250,000 acre island all on your lonesome in the world's first Che Guevara simulator.The lowdown:
Taking inspiration not just from Grand Theft Auto but also Mercenaries and old Amiga classic Midwinter you play CIA black ops agent Rico Rodriguez as he attempts to overthrow the evil dictator of the fictional island of San Esperito. Despite the huge island and the complete freedom of movement you have on it the game actually only has 21 story missions. There are over 300 side missions but it quickly becomes obvious that these fall into only a very small number of different styles, not all of which are all that entertaining. What makes the game fun though is just wandering off and doing your own thing, which invariably involves upsetting the local military or drug lords and instigating a massive, impromptu firefight. The game may lack depth and variety but it offers a freedom to explore and cause chaos that few others can rival. Most exciting moment:
As impractical as it may seem you've always got a grappling hook and a parachute, which allows you to lock onto any vehicle and commandeer it whenever you want. It also lets you perform some utterly outrageous stunts as you parasail behind boats and jump from a moving aircraft straight onto a road convoy miles below you. Since you ask:
Instead of storing the island of San Esperito as a gigantic map the game uses a new technique called procedural synthesis to create the landscape on the fly. This is the only way to make such large scale graphics work on the PS2, especially when you're flying miles above the island. The bottom line:
Che Guevara meets James Bond in this shallow but satisfying sandbox game.
HARRISON DENT
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
 Somebody make me a strong coffee!!! July 10, 2008
carys (wales)
I'm bored. Given up. Too many police chases. Crap cars. Grappling hook is always bloomin' selected when you need your gun, and makes you look like a right berk. Too much traveling to get to absolutely pathetic missions. I spotted this game recently. i bought the 360 in christmas 2007, so have started off playing games like Assassin's creed, which was breath taking!! So playing a two year old game at a cheap price, I expected it wouldn't be up to par with Creed on the graphics side. And it isn't. Nice views blah blah blah, but ultimately - there's no meat on this chicken.
 Not good enough May 17, 2008
M. Shepherd
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
After waiting awhile for GTA4 to come out a friend and I tried this game to pass the time and what a disappointment. The one major factor to this game is that they have put way too much effort in the scenery and not into the game physics, the way the guy runs is just retarded, all the vehicles are just stupidly designed. If your thinking about buying this game, don't waist your money, go buy GTA4 instead or Saints Row(i also saw it says on the game cover the game is better than Oblivion and GTA, Ha ha what a joke!)
I would love to like this game April 28, 2008
Rob (London)
I like this game or at least I think I do, it might be that I just want to like it. Its got so many nice touches and tries really hard to build on a lets face it a very repetitive formula. I like the idea of liberating the island in a mock revolution style, but the story is so painfully boring, it should be so exciting and so involving but I have skipped all apart from the first 5 cut scenes because frankly I just don't give a damn. Its so easy as well, I haven't used anything but the pistols throughout the game and the missions could be completed by Big Brother contestants after they have had thier weekly supply of alcohol, they really are that basic.
Plus what really gets me is the achievements for completing the 7th mission doesn't come til you have completed the 8th mission and the one for completing the 14th mission doesn't come til after you complete the 16th or 17th mission.
Also the island, great it is massive, but I once went on a two week holiday of the Norwegian fjords, the first day I was amazed by the glaciers and beautiful countryside and fjords, the second day I had unpacked my Dreamcast and did not leave it for the rest of the two weeks, its great having beautiful scenary but don't make it look all the same if you don't want people wishing they had never bothered.
 big game, big fun May 1, 2007
Lee S. (UK)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I first got this game when it came out and got it as part of my xbox 360 package. Although I liked the game I decided to trade the game in after 2 weeks as I only had this and PGR3, I really wanted TDU at that time. Then after about 5 games later I started to get cravings for Just cause after seeing various reviews etc on it and decided to buy it back for 18. Now that I fully understand the gamer points system and have got used to the xbox 360 controls properly I have found the game a lot better than the first time I played it.
I decided to take my time and not just fly through all the missions, this makes the game a lot more fun as you discover hidden volcano's and varous citys and settlements etc.
The graphics are very good and you easily get sucked into the beauty of the landscape (you can almost feel the warmth of the sun and sea etc). Every time I play it I find new stuff to do, new vehicles to use from cars boats and planes. The weather changes as you fly around the island and you can be blown about abit during storms adding to the adventure, this list just goes on and on. You have to play it a bit differently from GTA games in that some of the cars are easy to loose control of but then when you do have an accident the police are fun to defeat and also good fun to run from.
On the down side there are a few glitches and the cars are not in top detail compared with the scenery. But this is a small price to pay for such a big game and hardly ever spoil any fun.
In reflection I think that this game for the money it can now bought for is a bargin and I'm pleased to have it back in my collection once again
Fun for a day April 4, 2007
C. Hamilton
5 out of 17 found this review helpful
For the first day or so, it is quite entertaining, just being able to freely fly, drive or parachute around but after a while it gets really boring because all the cars are old bangers and the map is basically just trees so its the same everywhere and also the missions are all pretty much the same dispite it saying theres side missions, main missions and liberations which are all the same. a really annoying thing is the way he runs which is really spastic and he is constantly wheezing and his highj heels are always clicking its really annoying after a while. The game is really un realistic such as you being able to jump out of a helicopter or a plane at the highest point and hold on to the back of it, steer it while out there then jumping forward and landing inside it again!!!!!
I say don't buy it its poor quality. also take a look at how many are up the for sale (35 when i last looked) and you should take a hint from that
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