A few years back, Eidos dropped an over the top title on the last gen consoles and the 360. Mercenary Rico Rodriguez was tasked to liberat a large, politically unstable island, from the tyrany of a corrupt government.

The grapple hook isn't just a useful gadget in combat but it's also fantastic for exploring and creating stunts. It's been brilliantly implemented and you'll soon be moving effortlessly from one vehicle to the next, grabbing enemies off passing motorbikes, latching onto helicopters, and generally...

Exploring the beautiful island and finding great stuff; Destroying everything in sight; Developing our own stunts and being creative in combat

Having to trek for miles in the main campaign for little reward; The unpredictable targeting system in combat

Prepare to be mildly surprised, because we'll bet you a shiny pound that you won't find Just Cause 2 described thusly in any other gaming publication. We've put hours and hours into this desperately feisty third-person action game, and the best analogy we're going to make today is that it's the...

For all its slight foibles, Just Cause 2 is hugely entertaining, and despite the creeping feeling of repetition beginning to set in as you destroy your 500th fuel tank or collect your 1000th item, there's more than enough freedom to pull off ludicrous stunts and experiment with your weapons,...

As sequels go, you don't get much more improved, polished and flat-out fun than Just Cause 2 . Avalanche has done a phenomenal job of capturing the most important element of any video game, and they've done while giving you one hell of a play

Every so often, a game comes along that shatters the status quo. A game that challenges norms, rewrites the rules, and does a bunch of other things that can only be explained with cliches that don't really mean anything.

Simply put, Just Cause 2 offers outrageous action on an epic scale.

Unbelievably huge game world; stunning graphics and draw distance; amazing raft of vehicles and things to do

Mission structure can be a bit confusing at first

Fight for the Agency once more as Rico Rodriguez. Explore the island while creating Chaos. Free to play the game how you want. Use your grappling hook and parachute for crazy carnage. Interesting storyline with plenty of twists.

New grappling hook – Large game world – Side quest variety

Lack of seriousness might throw some people off

" Just Cause 2 " is such a massive improvement over it's preecessor in almost every aspect particularly the action and graphics although it appears that this is where the production budget has been spent rather than on the sound.

Just Cause 2 is ridiculous in the best possible way. In the space of a few moments, you can grapple to a hovering helicopter; beat up the pilot and hijack the chopper; blow up a cluster of fuel tanks; put the chopper on a collision course with an enormous antenna; jump out at the last moment; and...

Enormous; varied island to explore with lots of things to do; More than 100 vehicles to drive and pilot; You pull off all sorts of crazy stunts; Stuff blows up in lots of awesome ways; Using the grapple hook and parachute to move around is great fun

Broken targeting can make gunplay a pain; Some of the missions are more frustrating than fun; Various glitches and other scattered annoyances