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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45788

Eidos has released

a playable demo (local US mirror ~ 576MB) for
Just Cause, allowing you to try out the upcoming PC/PS2/Xbox/Xbox 360 action game by Avalanche Studios (SE). In this single player demo: Liberate a village, assassinate some political leaders, and explore the beautiful island of San Esperi

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yhancik · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject:

i had never heard of that game before, but the previews look quite good

i might give it a try

djRom · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:20 pm Post subject:

I plan on downloading the demo tonight when I get home from work. Smile

I too have never really heard of the game. Or atleast followed it enough to remember it.

djRom · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:47 am Post subject:

Well I just got done playing through the demo...

Wow...This is like a (good) cross between GTA, Hitman and a hint of Max Payne. This is definitely a must try for any action shooters.

I do warn this though, it seemed pretty easy, as there was a lot of health pick ups. But I think the point of the game is pulling off kewl tricks, killing people, and being in huge fire fights, not so much being the most accurate or whatever. Its just plain fun.

nb411 · Elite Member Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 497

Yep well said Rom. This game is about pure fun and luckily its minor flaws don't get in the way too much.

djRom · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:53 pm Post subject:

Well, thank you. ^-^

Besides, my other minor qualm was when I was driving, it was a bit weird because you would get tunnel vision very quickly. Though I think it was harder because my computer was chopping it up a little bit at some parts. I didn't bother changing the video settings since I figured in this day and age, programs should know best. And clearly, they still haven't perfected that. lol

I will probably play it again tonight, and actually look at the controls, and video/audio settings. Oh yeah, and hitting hte enter key is kind of annoying in the middle of battles with those tutorial things.

The boat part was fun, and so was jumping off a cliff and shooting out my parachute. Very fun game, especially since you are strapped for time, in time with the sun setting.

Still, a must play, and I will probably be picking it up.

yhancik · Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:23 am Post subject:

damn, my computer is having hard times too

i'm sure that if i could disable those shadows it would be alright

i didn't play much, but indeed it's great, although the way you don't control the movement with the mouse is a little disturbing at first (for a PC game)