Just Cause 2

[dimples]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kjs-SC70Wg

[Serio]

A year late to be posting the E3 trailer. The game was great fun though, and had enough side activities to keep me entertained for two weeks.

[dimples]

How is it late? It's a trailer of a game. :)

[Jason]

I've still not got round to playing this one. Looks like a whole bag of brain-in-a-bucket fun - sometimes 'realistic combat' just won't cut it, and you want to rip out a tiger's spleen in the cockpit of a falling helicopter whilst the nuke ticks down to detonation in the orphanage or something equally ridiculous. Just Cause 2 looks like a great game for that kind of escapism. :D

[JustaBitOutside]

I played some of it, reminded me a lot of Red Faction, which was a pretty good time.

[Jason]

Got this last night, and it's ludicrous fun. There's not many games where you can leap from an exploding bridge, grappling-hook yourself onto an attacking helicopter, swing underneath it for a few seconds before climbing onto the front of it, throwing the pilot out and commandeering it for your own ends (mainly shooting missiles at explode-y things).

[dimples]

It does have some really cool things you can do :D When you look at all the dots you should clear in the map, it seems impossible. Has anyone done it? I should buy it again so I can try to clear them all. Got an obsession of clearing that sort of stuff :D I actually cleared all in Saboteur. You can imagine how much fun that was.. not
Now I'm trying to get all Green orbs in Crackdown 2

[Diachron]

Now I'm trying to get all Green orbs in Crackdown 2

Ah, a fellow orb-hunter. I'm a compulsive collector, so I love it when games offer side-collections. (Banjo Tooie being perhaps the most over-the-top collection-fest ever (and which is on XBLA arcade, by the way)).

My wife loves collecting, too. I'll usually clear an area of enemies, and then she goes in to hunt. She was the one that found the last few orbs in the first Crackdown, and flags in Assassin's Creed, so she's getting good.

As for Just Cause 2, it's sitting on my to-get-to stack, mocking me!

[dimples]

Crackdown 2 at least makes it a bit easier to find them. As you can see which are near you and then there is that big map in the achievements section that show the locations :) But I doubt I'll get them all. Got pissed at the game :D I want to get the hoodie, but I just can't complete a single wingsuit

[Diachron]

The wingsuit is like the Dodo plane in GTA3... seemingly impossible to fly/operate until you finally get the knack of it. But there is much gnashing of teeth until that moment!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K8o5E60Js8