Gamefly just sent me Just Cause 2 for 360, which I've thoroughly been having fun with so far this weekend. It'd been on my watch list, and my Gamefly queue itself, since its demo was released/since I made a Gamefly account back in March, but they refuse to send new games to new users, assuming theft/non-payment/etc. But 2 months is definitely not 2 years, especially when I have school and such on my plate, so it's a good thing it hit during a lull in my social life.
Some highlights from Just Cause 2 so far:
-The plot revolves around, basically, dethroning an entire government singlehandedly, not to mention the to-be-dethroned is pretty much a slightly more evil Kim Jong Il (the game takes place in the Pacific on a large Korea-like island and the dictator himself seized control from his father, though the virtual one inherited the island through murder, not natural causes).
-Thus, mostly you're running around as James Bond, Jason Bourne, John McClane and the entire A-Team crammed into one dude.
-The voice-acting and plot of the game range from funny to hilariously bad. Of special note is one Bolo Santosi, the leader of the Reapers, whose accent is a mix of East Asian, English, Polish, and a mentally slow person.
-I bought a plane from an arms dealer, tried to fly it off a small runway, failed and watched as I rocketed straight into a mess of trees, then straight down into an explosion.
-You unlock missions by causing explosions.
-The game literally gives you an entire island nation and says "Go crazy, dude. Here are some weapons. We'll tell you when you blow up enough crap to move on."
-The second time I bought the same plane, I managed to get it up off the ground. I noticed an island off the corner of the map. It was a recreation of The Island from Lost.
-Before I made it to the Island, which shoots an untraceable EMP at you which makes you crash with no way off, I noticed something out in the sky and investigated. Turns out, it was a double-zeppelin a mile up with a strip club inside. The area's name? The Mile High Club.
-You can lash enemies to your vehicle and then drive/fly away while dragging them. You get an achievement for doing this 5 times.
-You can also do this to civilians. As shown HERE.
-I eventually reached a mission where you scale a huge skyscraper to broadcast a message to the people of the nation. Armed goons were there to stop me. I was able to use a grappling hook to toss them, one by one, off the unguarded side of the 'scraper. I was not informed of their deaths until a full 15 seconds later, when they hit pavement.
All this and I'm only 4-ish hours into the game.
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