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It's like taking a vacation to the Caribbean... only with guns!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game doesn't do a whole lot. It's mostly kill this and grab that. Most of the enemies are about as dangerous as a wet bag full of puppies. But what this game does do, it does VERY well!

The freedom in this game is phenomenal, allowing you to rampage like a little Godzilla from one end of a lush tropical paradise, to the other. Jumping from vehicle from vehicle, once mastered, will allow you to zip around at maddening speed. And overthrowing government controlled towns and drug-lord HQ's is a real blast!

The only downside to this game is that a vehicle stealing missions are painfully unbalanced. In these, you need to steal and bring back a speical vehicle in one piece. This is nearly impossible, as EVERYTHING damages your vehicle. This game is very much bent on allowing you to DESTROY everything, not keep anything in one piece. It's often easier to jump out of said vehicle, go back on foot, and take out the 20+ jeeps, helicopters, tanks, and generic soldiers with just a machine gun and some cheezy one-liners, then even bother trying to drive.

The game is also a bit low on the challege side of things. The only things in this game that will even remotely threaten you are the occasional heat-sinking missile and slow drivers. The missiles tend to sneak up quietly and without warning, blowing up you and your aircraft instantly, without warning. The slow drivers, on the other hand, are just a game glitch. When you get hit by a vehicle, the game not only takes in account the speed of the vehicle, but also the amount of time you touch it. So if somebody runs into you VERY slowly, like a peasant in a truck, they can grind you to death faster then taking 20 speeding jeeps to the face! This makes stealing vehicles a bit more hazardous then it really should be.

Other then these minor problems, the game is awash with amazing visuals and insane combat. It's like taking a vacation to the Caribbean, only with guns. If you like beautiful, free roaming, treasure hunting, and GTA-style F***ing with people type of games, you'll LOVE Just Cause! But if you like dirty, blood-soaked games that play on a rail, moving you from one game element to other, without the slightest bit of freedom or control, then go buy Gears of War instead.

Big. Really Big. Maybe even TOO big.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game has an extremely large, totally open world. The main problem I have with this game is that it is TOO big. Because they elected to have "Safe Houses" in which you could save your game and respawn after you die, the gameplay is a little bit frustrating. For example, you can drive to a mission point for a good ten minutes, get there, die, and then have to start back over driving another ten minutes. The safe houses themselves are too far away from each other, as there are only about forty or so on this island that has at least 100 settlements that need to be liberated. Which brings me to my second point: the settlement liberations, which are a main part of the game, are all TOTALLY IDENTICAL, except for minor details, like how much the road bends or how far the road blocks are from each other. Much more fun (and Frustration) can be had by liberating cities. Unfortunately, there are only maybe 6 cities in total. Totally the opposite of the liberations, the side missions and main missions are totally unique and, even though I have been playing this game for a good 4 months, I still occasionally stumble upon a new type of side mission.

The story itself is pretty well done. You are Rico. You cause crap to happen. Bad crap. You are an expert in "regime-change", a term used a good fifteen times throughout this game. The other main characters you encounter along your journey are each unique, even though only maybe three character models were created for those you have to kill.

This game is in no way realistic. For example, you can steal a car right in front of the police, and they won't care. However, if you bump into another car in the car you just stole, the fuzz will be on you like white on rice. Cliches aside, the physics are totally unrealistic. I went six kilometers into the air, then jumped out of my plane. I landed, without ever deploying my parachute, in the ocean. I was totally okay, not even hurt. Also, Rico has serious ups, as he can jump easily from a stationary car to a helicopter flying overhead.

Minor gameplay tweaks were needed for this game to receive 5 stars in the fun column, but overall it is a very satisfying, free-roaming shooter with stuntman-like moves and lots of action.

Total replay value...worth the inexpensive price for sure!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: March 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The map is huge, the stunts are rediculously impossible and make the game so fun. The graphics don't awe and even the colors seem overdone and corny. If you want a realistic, strategy sneak around and flip switches to solve the puzzles and then finally after dodging, ducking and hiding kill the 3 bad guys per level then this is not for you. This game requires almost no strategy and is probably easier than it should be, but it is just so fun. I highly recommend you get it. The story is completely cheesy but it is to be expected given the plot of the game. I am not a kid and I advise you to buy this game because the price is low for such a good game.

Most underrated game on the 360.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Just Cause is by far the most underrated and overlooked game on the 360. I've purchased this game, played it, and sold it to Gamestop, just as I always do with games. I have done this twice now with this title, and every time I can't help but buy it back again. The first time I popped in the disc I was just blown away by how visually beautiful the islands are. When you first start you are silently free-falling down over a deep blue ocean with mountainous tropical islands laid out before you. There is a dreamy wispy track playing in the background. Birds, planes, and helicopters all fly around in the distance as boats swish past down beneath you. You deploy your parachute and slowly float down to a white sandy beach where the shallower sky blue waters are lapping the shore. Its honestly just plain gorgeous. Within the first five minutes I really came to grasp with just how huge this sandbox is. You are asked to drive across the first island you are on. Now this alone takes about 5 minutes and you think "no big deal." But then once you bring up the menu and map you realize that this single island you just drove across is like only driving across the state of Rhode Island, with the whole United States still left to explore. There are a few bugs which I have encountered only on rare occasions, but that is to be said about pretty much any game that doesn't have a massive multi-million dollar budget. Overall, I am shocked that this game never got the respect it deserves. I'll definitely be keeping it this time.

could have been great...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

... I spent half an hour on this game before getting bored out of my mind then another painstaking half hour TRYING to enjoy it but it was a lost cause (Was that a pun?). This game could have simply been GTA with a little twist and it probably would have been a top seller but instead it fails miserably.
The enviroment may be huge but it ALL LOOKS THE SAME! The gameplay is unchallenging and there appears to be no enemy AI at all. All in all the whole thing becomes repetitive to the point where you no longer care about the story line or the character, or what the hell you're supposed to be doing. I hate to be blowing a trumpet for GTA San Andreas, but at least I got to know my way around that game without a map because there was enviromental change between cities and an engrossing storyline. Oh and you could jump out of planes in that game too!

Save your money, if it isn't on sale.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: April 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I picked up Just Cause when it was on sale about two weeks ago, and while I can't say I'm disappointed, I'd be pretty upset if I paid anything more for it.

I was hoping for something along the lines of Hitman with a Saint's Row twist, only to wind up with the most "ho-hum" game I've ever played on the Xbox 360.

Sure, the graphics are nice, and you can explore the "world", but it takes forever to get from one mission to another, and the on-screen map is just about worthless. Bystanders in the game mill about like carbon copies from Capcom games, and rarely (if ever) react to anything you do.

As others have pointed out, the physics make no sense at all. You can hang outside an unpiloted helicopter and shoot at things, or practically teleport from a parachute to a moving vehicle, but if you're driving a truck and go anywhere near a rock, you're stuck.

Throughout the game, you get a nagging questions in your head, like "What am I supposed to be doing?" and "Why do I care about anything that's going on here?"

Big kudos to Amazon, though. They had this game so cheap that I can sell it for more money and buy a decent game.

I Only Played the Demo

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: October 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

so maybe take this with a grain of salt, but I didn't really care for Just Cause. It seemed too much like Mercenaries to me, with the difficulty turned way way down, and also it seemed kind of pointless. I started playing and had no idea where i was or what i was supposed to be doing, and just by randomly shooting people I managed to complete 2 of 4 objectives in about 10 minutes. Seemed kind of silly

Also it didn't seem like there was any way I could ever get killed, and given the amount of stupid mistakes I was making (couldn't find the weapon button for about 30 seconds in the middle of a shoot out, grenaded myself, etc) I should have been killed pretty quickly

Maybe the full version is alot better, but from what I saw I'd rather stick with Mercenaries

Holy Crap This Game Sucks!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: June 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I understand that this game has really good graphics and a huge world, but this game just plain sucks. The storyline is not enticing...I found myself doing the same this over and over and over again. How friggin' boring!! The world is huge, but it all looks the friggin' same! The creators of this game really could have done a better job. I truly recommend that you do not buy this game....it sucks.

Glad I Waited To Buy It

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've come to a conclusion about Just Cause-They decided that they're going to make everything so massive that people won't notice the little things. There is an array of tanks to choose from, not to mention a huge amount of cars, planes, helicopters, boats, spanning the spectrum of each type of vehicle. Yet when you crash these, with exceptions of mid-air collisions, it doesn't feel real at all. That's not to mention that the map may be huge, but it might as well be exactly the same. I read in a magazine that if the map for Just Cause were the size of your hand, the map of San Andreas would be the size of your thumbnail, but the map for San Andreas is loaded with so many more goodies than this map, which is a few large cities which are completely un-interactive, LOTS of forest and the occasional rural village which, unsurprisingly, looked just like the last one and the people are exactly the same! Coincidence? I think not.
Now, there are some redeeming features to the game. First of all, something which I have seen no game do with the exception of racing games themselves, is that Just Cause shows a difference between torque and horsepower. The Vampire will go up a hill the Fukada Tournament can't but conversely cannot go as fast in a straight line. This would, of course, be more beneficial if I still wanted to play the game.
Another bright spot was the ability to do stunts, though you'll quickly learn they aren't particularly exhilarating after a while and that they become more useful as a quicker means of transportation.
Then there is something which really killed me about this game, which I think the developers were both conscious of and were aware of just how obnoxious it was, which was the Americanism-the way one suave Latino man dressed in all black, with the help of an army clad woman who's always in a bathing suit and his boss dressed in a Hawaiian shirt can topple a dictatorship. Not to mention, the United States took it upon themselves to do so. Oh, and they decided to destroy ANYTHING that stood in there way. But that's not enough, they had to cause a thermonuclear meltdown on one of the Islands. Great.
So maybe its just me, and this game has its value in the area of cheap thrills, but call me stupid, I wouldn't buy this again given the opportunity to make that choice again.

Not what I was hoping for

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game seemed like it would be awsome but I found it difficult to control, lacking in story and just kind of annoying to watch. I think that fans of the GTA format of games might like it but it has less story and activitys then even the first GTA for playstation. However I am not the best to judge this game since I am more a fan of KOTOR and Oblivion RPG style games then the GTA format

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