Just Cause Demo out now

[Shoitaan]

You heard me, go get it.


I'm downloading it. Personally I dont think the game will be that good but lets see after the demo :)

[JJBDude]

How much MB is it? At 65% on Test Drive so I still got a lot of downloading to go. :(

[RiLu@]

Downloading it now, can't wait to put my hands on it

[carocat]

How much MB is it? At 65% on Test Drive so I still got a lot of downloading to go. :(

632.71MB! :)

[Dcontrol]

Getting the missus to download it now. I downloaded the trailer earlier in the week and the game looks ok.

[TBS Trojan]

hope this game is awesome, ive read up on operation just cause and it was pretty cool.

[carocat]

Here's more info on the game: http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/727/727178p1.html

[damien©]

Downloading it Now

[phatmuther]

ill get this later, along with TDU (Y)

[RiLu@]

28% in 25 minuts not bad!

[TBS Trojan]

this demo is awesome, the only that sucks is the fighting, it auto-aim, but the vehicles are cool, parachuting is cool, o and u get 4 targets but you have to finish before nightfall.

[mjmaskrey]

Just rang the missus to download it for me...should be ready for when I finish work in a few hours.

:)

[gashead]

Meh, It's OK, but definately not amazing.

[Shoitaan]

The lightings very nice.. the sunset while freefalling kinda stuff but its not that great. Its definetely not terrible though.
But I'm definetely not buying it

[HotFish]

Meh, It's OK, but definately not amazing.

Agree - played a demo of this ages ago and it hasnt improved much since then. Fair enough it looks great if yet bland, but he walks like he brad pitt himself and the fighting is pants. I said before it plays like Total Overdose (esp the level i played on the demo before) where he jumps and shoots etc.

Alright - i will wait to see what people's reactions are to it when it's released.

Cya's

[Fleeboi]

From what Dcontrol's been telling me this game sounds pretty good, so I'm downloading the demo now.

Currently on 69%.... 69! w00t!

[Raisedbyflames]

its good graphicaly you can do cool stuntsand that but its naff andfeelscheap andnasty, also youdont needtoaim for the bad guys itsdoes it for you takes noskill

[phatmuther]

downloading now (Y)
9% in 9 mins (Y)

[Shogo35]

I was pretty impressed. I will certainly rent it. It;s like GTA, and Mercenaries combined with a setting certainly inspired to Cuba.

[Dcontrol]

From what Dcontrol's been telling me this game sounds pretty good, so I'm downloading the demo now.

Currently on 69%.... 69! w00t!

Aye I said it looks pretty good and I like the parachute and that but overall I find the control system a big letdown. I'd say it is an average title.

[Fleeboi]

Downloaded and played it.

Loved the graphics, hated the graphics, loved the graphics again.

Hated the control mechanics.

Hated the way he runs.

Loved driving the boats.

It's a love, hate thing going on, but I won't be getting this game, I'll play SR instead.

[padds78]

Im downloading it now so ill post back with my views. From what everyone else is saying i havent got high hopes:D

[phatmuther]

thought it was alright, but the steering for the cars is AWFUL, you move the thumbstick a tiny little bit, 2 secs later the car goes that way, they need to sort that out, its hard to stay in a straight line :D

other than that i woulda like to have seen more stunt like crash things, you know, where you rum into another car head on and go flyin out the windscreen like in flatout or saints row

[linkofhyrule]

I am utterly disappointed, and I wasn't even excited in the first place :o

The graphics are nice, but the controls, auto-aiming, weird cars and just about everything else is total crap. I mean come on this is a 360 title they could have at least turned the cars into some cool US and European ones instead of leave them in Japanese. I also don't get the point of going into stunt mode on vehicles, all you can really do is jump to other cars and I have to admit Pursuit Force did it better and that was a PSP game, a pretty average one at that. The way you just jump into the car from the top is weird too as is seeing the boddies just floating in mid-air through the car as you drive off.

Also the parachuting is really stupid, no way to control where you land.

No destructability as well, which is very disappointing. Actually, let me correct myself, no destructability unless you're in a chopper. You can shoot metal posts with rocket launchers and they don't even budge, which is very poor IMO.

One last gripe is that it is free-roaming, but at least in this demo mission you had to be from one place to the next fast, with no time to explore in-between. From hearing the story of the game, I think that could be the way it is all the time :( Defeats the purpose of the genre really.

Only good things I can say are the graphics are pretty (Y) and the chopper and boat driving is pretty fun.

Defo will be avoiding this one aside from maybe a rent for achievements if they're easy

[HotFish]

Im right arent l? I predicted this will be pants as there has been no real info on it until a month before its is released. I now think it might not go to press yet for the 360 as they will know that it is pants and has a lot of competition over the next few months.

Go back and finsh this properly - i certainly dont want another Total Overdose style game.

[gashead]

One last gripe is that it is free-roaming, but at least in this demo mission you had to be from one place to the next fast, with no time to explore in-between. From hearing the story of the game, I think that could be the way it is all the time :( Defeats the purpose of the genre really.

Gotta agree. I think that's probably what I disliked most about the demo. Sure, it was only a demo, but couldn't they let me do what I want even on a small portion of the island?

[Fleeboi]

Gotta agree. I think that's probably what I disliked most about the demo. Sure, it was only a demo, but couldn't they let me do what I want even on a small portion of the island?

I killed the first guy in the car, then just went where ever I felt like, I started jumping off cliffs, swimming to islands etc, just don't go to see that guy about the next mission and you should be good to explore.

[TBS Trojan]

yea i think open-ended games are one the greatest ideas ever. also i have to agree that car sterring sux. you press over for one second and the car rapidly jerks.

[Tobes]

Graphics are real pretty.

I thought it wasn't bad. Will be getting this game :)

[robsta06]

i had it within 15 minutes! yay! :D i actually hated it on my 1st go, i had NO IDEA what was going on, but i left it for a while then came back on to it, now i love the thing! and i hear it 30£ so its a must buy, along with SR and DR

[crashlock]

ok ok

I shall now speak - lol

I went into this demo with much caution as the screens looked boring and the hype machine was telling me this was nothing special. Within the the first 10 seconds of this game I was shouting at my TV "This game is ****ing broken!!". I free fell from the sky and clicked past the "press A to pull your parachute" which I didn't do straight away.. I decided I'd press it rather late. My character proceeded to land from free fall into an action pose on top of a moving car, with no parachute in sight!! WTF!!?? This is what caused my angry outburst.. Understandably. I then tried to play it like GTA, but it after a few times of the game ending after 2 mins with the explanation "he got away" blar blar. I went and killed this dude in the car marked by a mass of red arrows, which then freed me up to explore the island until the sun went down.
I think Fleeboi said this games is a love hate kind of game. And after playing it for a time I think that's a fair point. I loved some aspects of this game. Like sheer lushness of the island was refreshing. And shooting up cars and jeeps where the tyres get damage/deflate and the panels fly off followed by a petrol fueled BOOM! Or zipping across amazingly beautiful HD tropical water in a speed boat. It felt like I was actually in the original Miami Vice!
But there's plenty to hate in this game too. It had so many bugs that would rival the amount found on an actual tropical island. I won't even try to list them let's just say it's riddled! And I find it perplexing as to why they decided to create an amazingly interesting and beautiful map but switched off when it came to character design. Did they use bad Xbox assets for the characters or what? Even if they had used Chronicles of Riddick the Xbox game assets, the characters would look better! Some of vehicles such as the Police 4x4 are let a let down too. After seeing the cars in PG3 (which is nearly a year old) no 360 game should produce anything less impressive.
As for physics, this game just raped the rule book on that. Pretty laughable.

To round up this game I thought was: Test Drive unlimited (car handling like washing machines on wheels) + Saints Row + Bugs x Sketchy physics = Just Cause .

It should be renamed from "Just Cause" to "Just Rent".

[RiLu@]

I tried the demo yesterday and I think it will be fun to play.

Big place to go around and destroy stuff!