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Stole a display model sports car then leaped it over the airfield fence then drove it at speed into the pilot and his bodyguards then jumped out and grapple zipped across the hangar to avoid the chain of explosions triggered by the damaged car then tied the one remaining guard to the tail of a chopper then flew the chopper out of the hangar then got shot down but escaped and opened our ‘chute and grappled to the enemy chopper that shot us down and shot the passenger then dragged the pilot out then flew to a mountaintop and jumped out then opened the ‘chute and drifted down the mountainside enjoying the view while the helicopter crash-landed in a ball of flame behind us.

Rodriguez's magic parachute can travel up as well as down. Neat trick.

We tried that with proper sentence structure and punctuation and stuff, but it wouldn’t fit. The point is, an awful lot happened in just a 5-10 minutes spell of play, and it happened fluidly, seamlessly and without resorting to cut-scenes. There was one brief QTE when we hijacked the enemy chopper, but other than that it was all gameplay. Once you’ve got the hang of it, Just Cause 2 is nearly always like that. But only nearly always.

The biggest problem we had was that the controls are sometimes inexplicably inaccurate and inconsistent. Like you’ll sometimes find that, for no apparent reason, you can’t shoot the passenger of a car when you’re standing on the roof of it, or you can’t shoot your grapple hook over, as opposed to into, a waist-high barrier without jumping up first.

For the most part though, Just Cause 2 is a major improvement over the original and will provide hours upon hours of raucous fun for anyone willing to persist, improvise and experiment to the full extent of its possibilities. And you might need to bring just a little bit of forgiveness with you too.

Mind the Stargate! You'll end up in Egypt-world!