So after a lot of nagging from GeneShark/Tom I decided to have a look at the Just Cause 2 demo, I had a look through the Playstation Store and went to download it. It was at this point I realised I had about 70MB free space on my hard drive, so I went over to my 360 and downloaded it there.

So when I loaded it up it started going through some intro cut-scene thingy, which I was not paying much attention to because I was too busy talking in our IRC channel (which you should totally join). Without noticing I was then in gameplay, I took a few steps forward then a timer appears in the top-right corner. This was the timer for demo play, it was set to 30 minutes, which I suppose is a reasonable amount of time for a demo.

Now with most game demos what I would expect is the typical tutorial level (and maybe one more) so I can get used to what the game was about. But it seem what little explanation about what I was doing was in that little cut-scene (crap >.<). But nevertheless I tried to make sense of it. There were basic control prompts still like ‘RT to shoot’ etc. So I started having a look around for something to do relevant to progress. That was until I found the grappling hook…

How goddamn awesome is this

For nearly the rest of the demo I found my self grappling onto and riding on top of cars, grappling up huge-ass cliffs and parachuting down or unnecessarily grappling along the floor. I alerted some police of some kind and had a bit of fun shooting the before grappling off into the skies.

Although at one point I stumbled upon this military base, and stole a helicopter (by grappling onto it and then entering of course) which was fun, until I left the ‘Demo area’ at which point I had to turn a helicopter around and get it back to the demo area within 10 seconds. Of course I couldn’t and the demo reset and put me back to the start (without resetting my 30 minutes) it was at this point I couldn’t be asked anymore.
So, in conclusion I’d have to say: didn’t have a damn clue what was going on, but the grappling hooks and helicopters are fun. This game is out this Friday (on week of posting). Or was released 26th March 2010 if this is being read at a later date.

This was fun too!

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