It was announced in 2007 with a demo attracting two million players. Avalanche Studios worked with Square Enix London Studios while developing Just Cause 2. Panau, inspired by Southeast Asia, was considered by the team a good location for an action game. As a result, mission design, artificial intelligence and most core gameplay mechanics were overhauled. The game was developed as an improvement of Just Cause its team saw missed opportunities in the first game, analyzing and refining it. These points are essential for story progression. Just Cause 2 introduces the Chaos System, in which players must complete missions and destroy government property on Panau for Chaos points. The gameplay involves Rico fighting hostile militants with guns and a grappling hook, enabling players to tether objects to each other and slingshot into the air with a parachute. It features Rico Rodriguez, a major operative of the fictional Agency who arrives at Panau (a fictional dystopian island nation in Maritime Southeast Asia) to overthrow dictator Pandak "Baby" Panay and confront former mentor Tom Sheldon. The sequel to 2006's Just Cause, it was powered by Avalanche Studios' Avalanche 2.0 Engine. I'm certainly looking forward to giving it a try.Just Cause 2 is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by Avalanche Studios, published by Eidos Interactive and distributed by Square Enix. It does sound like a magnificently elaborate brand of madness, though - verging on MMO, but with infinity times more infinite parachutes and the chance to imagine you're battling for a real, flesh-and-blood Bolo Santosi instead of some dumb king or wizard. The mod's creators are also advertising "limitless factions, limitless destruction," which bodes quite well for everybody except rabid fans of limits. Grouped into factions, players will be able to spawn into squads, customize characters and vehicles, capture bases, and keep tabs on what everybody else is up to via new menus and an upgraded PDA. They'll apparently all play off each other's strengths and weaknesses, with, for example, the Assault needing a Medic for truly effective head-on attacks. Initially, you'll have your pick of the heavily armored Assault, flesh-mending Medic, sharp-eyed Sniper, base-hacking Infiltrator, and ammo/rocket-supplying Support.
Classes, meanwhile, sound fairly standard, but this is still an entirely new game system we're talking about. The plan is to incorporate all 370 in-game bases, each of which will provide money and access to custom weapons and vehicles.
It really does sound like quite the thing.
Underneath it all, Just Cause 2's screaming barbed wire eagle heart still pounds away, but I think it's safe to say that this is no longer just Just Cause. The new mode adds giant teams, classes, squad management, squad spawning, alliances, customization, and more. It is, however, still a work-in-progress, and even pure shrieking chaos is only entertaining for so long. Quite frankly, it's the one puzzle piece that was always missing - from Just Cause 2, from plane surfing's never-ending fight to be recognized as an Olympic sport, from life. There's an alternate dimension in which the day Just Cause 2 was first modded to include thousand-person multiplayer is cited as the beginning of a new, gloriously utopian chapter in human history.
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