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

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.

It isn't often that I find myself speaking so definitively about games these days. I feel confident, though, when I say that Just Cause 2 is the best damn sandbox game in years. Although it isn't without faults, Just Cause 2 is a full throttle thrill ride.

) but managed to sell over a million copies - with the much more impressive PC and XBox 360 versions scoring significantly higher. Sadly, there was never a PS3 port released so millions of gamers just about to move to next-gen Sony consoles (the PS3 launched in November 2006 remember) missed out.

The original Just Cause quickly became one of the major titles I was looking forward to in 2006, although when it was released I wasn't as positive in my review as I would have hoped to have been, eventually coming to the conclusion that it was one of 2006's minor disappointments.