The map's peppered with a reassuring quantity of stuff too. Where Mirror's Edge achieved a sense of terrifying vertigo through cleverly working the camera angles, Just Cause 2 does it through brute force -you're thousands of feet above the earth and, thanks in no small part to infinite draw distances, it feels like it. Dubai-grade skyscrapers rise up from icy cliff faces and tower above cities, their sheer altitude demanding they be base jumped from.

Impossibly close climates range from vast desert plains to dense jungles and snowy mountains. Not just in the north, east south and west but in the up and down too. Line.īesides the grappling hook and parachute fun, the world itself is huge. You can even tow vehicles using it, if you can imagine such a luxury. Riding on top of a limousine before tethering the front of the vehicle to an overhead sign caused the car to back flip, launching us into the air. Otherwise the grapple is comprehensively useful, working in almost every circumstance we tried during our hands-on session. Melee him to death while he's hanging, and the game cheerfully awards you a pifiata kill. Tether an enemy to a ceiling and he'll dangle helplessly. Tether a man to the back of a car and he'll be dragged along by it Tether a car to a road during a chase and it will be violently jolted, flipping and spinning madly through the air before coming to a standstill. Tether two people together in this way and they'll be flung towards each another with lethal, hilarious force. The hook's abilities have been shaken up too, you're now able to hold the grapple key down to attach it to somebody or something, before releasing it while aimed at another object to attach one to the other. Where Just Cause's use of the grappling hook and parachute was restricted, the sequel allows you to use both at any time.

To this end, and unlike in the previous game, you're never stranded on the ground for long - as long as you can grapple, you can fly.

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