{"id":5004,"date":"2010-04-11T02:17:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T07:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benie.beniesbuilds.com\/personal\/?p=916"},"modified":"2010-04-11T02:17:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T07:17:31","slug":"just-cause-2-the-ultimate-sandbox-game-of-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2010\/04\/11\/just-cause-2-the-ultimate-sandbox-game-of-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Cause 2 &#8211; The ultimate sandbox game of the 21st century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got JC2 three days ago. Though I didn&#8217;t know if I should get it at all. Due to the fact I never played the original Just Cause. But this has nothing to do with the original.<\/p>\n<p>The game is like Crysis, GTAIV, and FarCry 2 in one. Crysis due to the island setting. FarCry 2 due to the factions, and GTAIV for the car chases\/hijacking.<\/p>\n<p>It starts as you being a secret agent. Almost like James Bond. Even the music makes you feel like some international spy only seen on TV.<br \/>\nAfter you do three missions, you&#8217;re pretty much on your own. You can go ANYWHERE on this humongous island complex. There is a few places where you will be killed on sight by the military if you decide to just waltz into one of their bases.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, it&#8217;s been three days. Yet I haven&#8217;t even discovered half of all the settlements. I&#8217;ve been dicking around using the BOLOpatch (aka Trainer + Anti-Crash) and other mods I downloaded, with the Military; blowing up their generators and shit and laughing as I take down their Air Support with one RPG. Not to mention boring the Dragon Megathread Chat with my ramblings on how awesome this game is. How I did this and that and found it funny.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.. the story of the game is about a rogue agent and former mentor of the player character, and a power-happy leader of this fictional island complex known as Panau. You can decide to continue the story, or help out the three local factions, or&#8230; do whatever you want. Completing the game isn&#8217;t really a requirement, as you&#8217;ll still be able to do everything even if you complete it.<\/p>\n<p>Then why am I not doing it? One good reason. I can&#8217;t handle &#8220;OMG HURRY! BEAT THE CLOCK BEFORE THE BOMBS BLOW!!&#8221; pressure. It&#8217;s not that I crack up under pressure, it&#8217;s the fact of my &#8230; high temper level. I will rage and throw things if I don&#8217;t win every, and I mean <strong>every<\/strong> mission I sign up for.<br \/>\nI am waiting until someone releases a Freeze Time mod that stops the fucking time limits! This is also why I&#8217;m not doing the many races available to me. I HATE everything &#8216;beat the clock&#8217;. I know this feature was placed for challenge-loving people. Too bad I&#8217;m not one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s a fun game. But you got to make the fun happen. But it was worth every bit the $50 I paid, and made me glad I upgraded to Windows 7, since it only works with it or Vista.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got JC2 three days ago. Though I didn&#8217;t know if I should get it at all. Due to the fact I never played the original Just Cause. But this has nothing to do with the original. The game is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2010\/04\/11\/just-cause-2-the-ultimate-sandbox-game-of-the-21st-century\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}