(Weapons range from pistols to high-powered shotguns to massive turret guns.) Accumulated points open up new obliterating and blood-spilling missions, and can also translate into new weapons and vehicles. The more devastation caused, the more chaos points Rico racks up. Thus, igniting fuel depots, detonating broadcasting towers or demolishing statues of the high-lord dictator are the kind of torch-the-world activities that panic the populace and make up the heart and soul of this title. The only requirement, really, is for him to incite as much explosive bedlam as possible along the way. Or if he wants to go old-school, he can also commandeer and motor around in over 100 different vehicles-everything from a motorbike to a military jet to a tank.Īs Rico zips about, there are a series of unlockable Agency and rebel faction missions-such as rescuing captured agents, destroying military bases or carrying out deadly assassinations-that move him ever closer to his end goal. And since all those miles are “to scale,” Rico has a fancy grappling hook strapped on his arm that helps him move Spider Man-like from here to there.

You can go anywhere on the 400 square miles of city-dotted landscape and do whatever you want. How you get him to that face-off confrontation, however, is pretty much up to you. Rico’s mission, if he chooses to accept it (and if he didn’t there’d be no game), is to find Tom and end the spy’s roguish ways. Tough guy Rico is sent to the fictional South Asian country of Panau-a large island paradise that’s recently been taken over by a Kim Jong Il-like dictator.īut Rico’s not there for the flower-strewn fields, the majestic mountainsides or the propaganda-laced broadcasts, he’s on the trail of his former mentor Tom Sheldon, who skipped off with a bunch of Agency secrets and a big bag of cash.

Gamers play as Rico Rodriguez, a nearly indestructible operative from a CIA-ish agency called, appropriately enough, The Agency.

And while it’s not the jihad terrorist simulation I may have made it sound like, digital chaos is definitely on the loose. Just Cause 2, Square Enix’s action/adventure sequel, does. There aren’t many video games that will let you hijack an airliner and send it hurtling into a skyscraper while you leap out at the last second and grab on to a passing helicopter for a slick getaway.

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