Just Cause (360)

Did the third story mission over the weekend. Yes, an actual story mission! (The reason I’m only updating the blog now with weekend gaming is that Monday was a Bank Holiday and yesterday I went to London and ended up standing on a street singing – on camera, mind you – for the BBC. But

Absolutely brilliant. Still. Even spending several minutes simply pushing the left stick forward to fly a helicopter fifteen kilometers wasn’t a paid, given that the scenery and the sunrise were so beautiful. (And I checked Twitter and played Words With Friends with my other hand.) It’s a truly remarkable game in a lot of ways.

In a change from the normal format, I’m going to offer some PRO TIPS for Just Cause 2. PRO TIP: Trying to escape from an entire army on a moped is not the best idea. PRO TIP: When jumping from a really, really – no, like, really – high building, remember to open your parachute

Bah. My pet theory was that the bizarre accents seen in the demo of Just Cause 2 were because the makers of the game didn’t want it to be set anywhere geographically specific, so had used different styles of architecture and weird voices to try and make sure things were set in some fuzzy fantasy

A huge funsplosion of a demo, it lasts a little over half an hour and I managed to find time to play it four times last night. It’s that good. It gives a you a huge sandbox to play around in – though it’s a tiny area of the full game’s map – and all