Just Cause 2 Demo This Week...

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/26/just-cause-2-demo-...

After seeing this, I don't think this game will ever get old

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Thanks to an anonymous tip-off (thanks v much btw), I've been giving the demo a go on Steam and it's nice to play but I reckon - despite the cool stunts - this game, unless there's a good storyline somewhere - would really get boring very quickly.

So, all I've had is a few 30 minutes sessions, which I wished had been longer (no glitch unfortunately for PC I'm aware of) and I found it pretty repetitive actually. The AI is as wooden as it comes and destroying the same old targets time after time is really, um, repetitive and boring.

Its long term appeal and re-playability will likely prove of interest to adolescent boys only with no imagination and a penchant for mindless destruction but I do agree, the game does definitely have potential. Nice large open area? Check. Sunny climate? Yup. Lots of different types of vehicles to drive/ride/fly? Oh yes. Plenty of novel ways and big guns to kill an enemy? Of course!

Just Cause 2 looks like it's got a good recipe for short term fun but seeing how samey it was in every way - civilians, traffic, places etc, I think it's the type of game that will really need something special story-wise to get my attention if I'd ever play it through to the end. I hope I'm proved wrong and there's more substance to this title. At £25 for PC, it's at the top end of what I'd call a must buy game and too pricey to buy on whim.

Edited by SPOOKish (Wed 10-Mar-10 19:27:05)

I have a couple of tips for you:

1)Get the demo unlocker, it removes the timer and can also expand the map quiet a bit.
2)Don't buy from steam buy the LE from game, its only £25 and you get more, HOWEVER the game uses steamworks as its protection which means you just tap in your serial and its activated on your steam account. Much better than £28 for a regular edition of the game.

It looks like theyve improved on the faults with JC1 i think JC2 will be more fun to pick up and play then a kill spree in GTA is these days.

Cheers FireFalcon, hadn't realised there was a PC version to unlock the time limited demo. I definitely will play the demo again now, as I'll get a better look around now for sure.

I saw that Game were selling the JC2 LE game for £25, that's where I finally got BFBC2 from (which I just started playing and am getting absolutely slaughtered in). The thought of spending £50 on PC games in a week makes me cringe but I might go for it if it turns out all right from my favourite games reviewers here.

Thanks again.

What could ever get boring about grapple roping a guard to the back of a high speed moving vehicle and pulling him along?

JC2 looks to do right what mercs 2 tried to and failed horribly.

Well, admittedly that did look like fun. Also grapple hooking a guard to a gas canister and then shooting it also looked kind of cool. Hehe.

Just tried the demo again and got a horrible blue screen of death (Win 7). Had trouble the first time I played the game - often when loading the sound goes weird and everything freezes for a bit. Comes unstuck eventually and Windows is still responsive (ALT+TAB works). This time, it BSODed, which was nasty as Windows failed to load after a crash dump and restart.

Back up now though but a bit nervous about trying the demo again...

:/

Post the BSOD info, lets see if we can point you in the right direction to fix it.

This game has some really cool shooting and explosions and its all about the fun factor ,i agree it might be a little repetitive but if you like pulling of cool stunts and blowing the hell out of things then i think its right up my street .

If we want to talk about boring then 2 words............Far Cry 2

Another prime example of a wasted opportunity along with most of the games released so far this year.

Bioshock 2............Traded
Aliens V Predator............Traded
Heavy Rain........................Traded

Only Mass effect 2 can rank as a class game been released this year and the rest have failed to inspire and live up to all the previews and Hype machine heaped upon them by the media.

Roll on a week Friday when finally we get to play the new God Of War 3 for the PlayStation 3..................This game will surpass the hype and live up to expectations guaranteed.

Edited by time2die (Thu 11-Mar-10 00:22:25)

I think it's my soundcard playing up. Creative really are useless when designing drivers and products that don't go tits up every 5 seconds. Got my drivers reinstalled but I don't think they're clean - I need to use that special tool to remove the old corrupted files I guess. Just need to find it.

I hate computing sometimes, well most of the time actually. Nothing's ever simple, especially when it comes to gaming on a PC. BFBC2 now won't play ball. Won't connect to games once the server browser's up.

A question of fixing things (what a joke) the easiest most painfree (efficient & effective) manner. Guess it's time for a Windows reinstall then, ho ho.