Just Cause 2 Review (4/5)

After a flawed and frankly overblown first outing, Just Cause 2 has little expectation to live up to- so it's brilliant that the sequel will blow everyone away (literally in many cases)! Rico Rodriguez ventures to a new island in a simplified but all the more interesting plot featuring a host of annoying yet lovable voice actors, an island which- while smaller than the original's- is still 100 times the size of GTA IV's (reaching 1000 square kilometres) and has lots more things to do than its predecessor's did. To advance the storyline, you'll have to cause chaos- a lot of it- and that means destroying military bases, civilian villages, capital cities, and partaking in some simply awesome faction missions (one sees you commandeer a fully-armed jet in order to destroy a rocket before it does the same to the island). While in the original these tasks would have been mundane, now the tension and fun have been ramped up dramatically to provide an overall more refined experience for gamers. If you're a fan of free-roaming games without too much plot, then why are you still here and not at your local game retailers already? If not, Just Cause 2 is still worth at least a rental by anyone of the age!