Just Cause 2 (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.

An epic quest to find the gang known as the Roaches. I’d avoided seeing them earlier, instead doing missions for the other two gangs, so last night, after much mayhem, I decided to go and find them. Couldn’t. There were no Roaches icons on my map that I could see. I spent minutes zoomed in,

I’m still playing this when I’ve got an odd half hour spare. It’s still absolutely wonderful. Every time I think I might be getting a little tired of it, I fire it up again and find myself running and flying around with a huge grin on my face. Last night I had an excellent time

For such a big game, it’s all a bit samey, isn’t it? But no more so than a lot of other games, so that can’t be the issue I have with it. There are just annoyances that highlight it – principally the way the merest hint of contact with another vehicle stops you dead. No,