n September 2006 we had Avalanche Studios action game Just Cause. Now, thirty three years later, we see and continue, simply titled Just Cause 2. And playing the same person Rico Rodriguez, but this time Panau fictional island in the South East. The ultimate goal is to deposed dictator local Pandak "Baby" Panay, and we face former boss, Tom Sheldon.
And, as in the first title of the series, we stragglers anywhere in the world opened the game with no storyline to follow. AI is very advanced, and combines perfectly with difficulty adaptable. The game reacts to player, and fits on its capabilities.
The enemies know how to hide behind objects in the environment, and plan their actions, to attack as well-organized. Besides the multitude of weapons ranging from rifles and pistols to rocket launchers, in Just Cause 2 control and a range of vehicles including a Boeing 737 (jet passenger plane) or other fighters. And the absolute novelty, we have an emergency parachute, and a hook for hanging.
The graphics are rendered by the Avalanche 2.0 engine, and focuses more on character appearance. The required minimum should include a dual core Pentium D 3 GHz or Athlon X2 4200 +, 2 GB of RAM, 10 GB free on HDD, and a GeForce 8800 or Radeon HD 2600Pro with 256 MB memory. And it recommended CPU to 2.6 GHz Core 2 Duo and Phenom X3 processors at 2.4 GHz, 3 GB RAM, 10 GB all the HDD, and GeForce GTX 250 or Radeon HD 5750 with 512MB. And the bad news, the game does not work on Windows XP. He needs Vista or Win7.
Just Cause 2 has been released simultaneously on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. The price is 50 €.