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Like a vacation...everything looks great, but I'm still bored.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

From a technical perspective, the 360 version of Just Cause stands out for a few reasons. The game engine is very capable and manages to render the huge areas on the fly with little loading times. Everything has a nice sheen and overall, the game looks awfully good. While the in-game models look fairly average, the island of San Espirito looks alive, bustling with activity. The sheer depth of it over the horizon is what grabs you from the initial parachute drop. This one-ups GTA...

Unfortunately, like a lot of similar games, you'll end up playing some repetitive missions, and the game can bog down a bit here and there (I found myself not playing it for a while as a result). It's not that bad, but you start to feel like you're going from one end of the island to the other, over and over, for nearly the same objectives. There are some side-quests to add some variety, but they too aren't all that interesting. Fortunately, Just Cause adds the addition of the grappling gun and parachute, which make exploring the island a bit more enjoyable, in and of themselves. With the meat of the gameplay being a bit lackluster, at least they made getting around in the game more enjoyable.

An okay Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Just Cause is a GTA-ish type game that is not as good as GTA. I found the game to be a little monotonous and frequently glitchy. There are some cool features in the game such as parachuting and flying a good variety of different planes, and the explorable area in this game is HUGE. To be honest though, I found myself playing it through just to finish it, even though I wasn't always having fun while doing it. If you can get it for under 15 dollars you may be satisfied with your purchase.

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

BLEH, Buy it only if it's onsale.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for 22 bucks plus tax and now I feel like I was ripped off. I played the game for maybe about an hour and have never picked it back up. I'm a little disappointed. It's like a crappy, blurry version of GTA, except in the bahamas.

Lots of cool stuff to ride on. But it doesn't seem like you could ever die. It feels like the game is made for a little kid. The aiming is pretty much done for you, yet the ability to drive just plain sucks.

Not even worth stealing.

Horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is perhaps the worst video game i have ever played.

yes the graphics are nice but the gameplay is horrific, boring, and just plain not fun, i rented this game and after 5 minutes i had enough and i gave it another 20 minutes and no improvement.

Negative:
The music is anoying, the controls suck, jumping off of car roofs is only fun the first 20 times, not realistic at all, environment is unplayable despite it being a huge map (you have to stick close to the roads).

this game could have been amazing if they worked with rockstar but then again GTA 4 is coming out at the end of april.

if you like GTA, this game will make you mad lol. Don't bother buying or renting.

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.

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!

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