OMG! Just Cause 2!!!!

I never played the original Just Cause. I'd heard how average it was from pretty much everyone, so I couldn't be bothered picking it up - even as a rental. Then out of nowhere it's sequal came out (ok, maybe not "nowhere" - Sweden or something I believe). Whereas the original had been plagued by reviews themed around it's mediocrity, everything I read about JC2 focussed on how fun it is.

And that's a very important point. It's very fun. It's got more than it's fair share of issues - both minor and major and I can't decide which catagory somethings sit in. For example, no movement while crouched? Am I missing something? This guy is supposed to be a top grade secret agent who can leap from moving vehicle rooftop to moving vehicle rooftop, but he can't duck while walking?!???!? But it IS fucking good fun! Here's an example that I still can't quite believe; I finished my first mission and I spotted a helicopter. "Sweet, I'll have some fun with that". So I dive in and only after taking off do I realise it has no guns. Rather than ditch it, I land next to a nearby statue of the local dictator and attach my winch to it's head and the other end to my chopper. At this point I'm just planning on seeing if I can tear the statue down, which it turns out I can. What I didn't count on was the head staying connected and my sudden realisation that I now had a make-shift wreckingball on my 'copter! So then I'm blitzing around smashing water towers with this dictator's stone noggin when his soldiers turn up in their own (heavily armed) whirly birds. In a truly inspired James Bond-esque moment, I swing round and manage to take two of them out with my wildly swinging rock bonce just as they manage to turn my transport into a firey ball of death. I bail out, hit the 'chute and land right next to one of the bikes their ground support had abandoned, which I then commandeer before making my escape into the countryside.

And this was only within my first hour of play. Hope it keeps up!