Just Cause is the kind of game that makes even James Bond’s more improbable antics look positively sane. Rather like our favourite cocktail-shaking military spy, the game’s hero, Rico, comes equipped with all sorts of high-tech gadgets, can fire all manner of stupidly powerful weapons – but with sillier hair. But it all goes a bit crazy, as you soon find out.
For a start, Rico has a parachute which allows him to casually jump out of planes and land directly on the roof of a speeding car with ease, or whip out his grappling hook to grab the back of a vehicle, then open his parachute and rise up into the air for a bit of motorway paragliding. As you do. But our particular favourite sees Rico shoot his grappling hook up to reach a helicopter, pull himself up to grab onto its tail, and then simply leap into the cockpit.
All in a day’s work, it seems. Now we just need the cocktail.
In short, Just Cause is the kind of unhinged action game that lets you do stuff you wouldn’t be able to do in real life – whether that’s driving cars at ridiculous speeds, shooting planes down with giant guns or, you know, paragliding down a motorway. And we can’t help loving it for it.