History Videogame / JustCause

[[caption-width-right:350:The game's box helpfully tells you why you can leap eighty feet in the air from the back of a motorbike.]]

* HitTheGroundHarder No matter how far Rico falls he can prevent any damage by pulling himself to the ground with a grappling hook. [[ZeroPunctuation That's right, best way to survive crashing into ground is to hit it faster]]

* HeyItsthatGuy: Tom's voice actor in the first game also played Victor Sullivan from ''{{Uncharted}}''.

* HiTheGroundHarder No matter how far Rico falls he can prevent any damage by pulling himself to the ground with a grappling hook. [[ZeroPunctuation That's right, best way to survive crashing into ground is to hit it faster]]

* BeyondTheImpossible: How many jeeps will they send after Rico this time? How many dozens of cars will be destroyed in a single chase? How close to the ground can Rico get after falling 20,000 feet before opening his parachute? How many parachutes are really in that backpack?
** [[spoiler:How many nuclear missiles will you ride?]]
*** [[spoiler:[[CompletelyMissingThePoint Four.]] ]]
** No matter how far Rico falls he can prevent any damage by pulling himself to the ground with a grappling hook. [[ZeroPunctuation That's right, best way to survive crashing into ground is to hit it faster]]

*** And other helicopters. Of [[BeyondTheImpossible equal size.]]

* SceneryPorn: The entirety of Just Cause 2. Lush jungle, snow-capped mountains, arid desert, the towering skyscrapers of Panau City, vast oceanic expanse, and the sky, oh the sky - all rendered beautifully. And unlike most examples of Scenery Porn, you can visit ''[[BeyondTheImpossible every single point on the island]]''.

** One level involves [[Film/{{Speed}} a convoy rigged with bombs to explode if it stops moving]]. Of course, this being ''[[RefugeInAudacity Just]] [[BeyondTheImpossible Cause]]'', you need to catch up the convoy and disarm the bombs. Individually. While hanging from the rear bumper. And gunfighting.

* WrongGenreSavvy: When Rico confronts Salvador Mendoza on his plane, Mendoza claims, "I must warn you, I have seen ''Film/AirForceOne'' six times, and I assure you, the President ''always'' wins." Rico quips that ThisIsReality ([[RefugeInAudacity s]][[RuleOfCool n]][[BeyondTheImpossible i]][[UpToEleven c]][[CrazyAwesome k]][[YouFailPhysicsForever e]][[StuffBlowingUp r]]); in reality, TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin, and he's the good guy.

* FridgeLogic: Gang leaders in [=JC2=] seem to be unusually confident when flying in one helicopter with Rico, [[ViolationOfCommonSense despite knowing fully]] just [[OneManArmy who]] [[HeroicSociopath he is]].
** Or maybe they're confident ''because'' they know who he is, and he's on their side.
* FridgeBrilliance: Why is there a ship in the middle of a desert? Because the desert is actually a recently dried up ocean bed, like the Aral sea. [[hottip:*:'''Lautan Lama''' means '''Formerly a sea''' [[BilingualBonus in Indonesian ]]]]

* HeroicSociopath: All non-plot-vital characters in the game can be killed, and chances are good you'll run over more than a few accidentally while driving around. But it's all for a just cause.

* HoYay: It's hard not to suspect Sri Irawan may have some ''special feelings'' for Rico.

** The [[spoiler:foreign agents, all of whom can take and dish out more punishment than the colonels]]

* YouFailPhysicsForever: Though this does sort of imply the developers even bothered taking the test, when they really just made a tasteful origami out of the paper. And then blew it up.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Notably averted with the 3 factions Rico sides with in the game. The Roaches, Reapers, and Ular Boys all respect and revere Rico as the incredible soldier he is. The CIA that employs Rico however are less nice and make plenty of jokes at his expense, Tom Sheldon being his mentor appears to be the only nice CIA agent.

** And the [[CoolPlane G9 Eclipse]] with its quad rocket pods with BottomlessMagazines. Spamming missiles towards the general area of your target from a mile away is also your only hope of hitting something without crashing into it.

* MadeOfIron: Baby Pane. [[spoiler:He takes a grenade point blank in the face, gets shot an ungodly number of times, but only dies via ''nuclear explosion''.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Rico has quite a few of these sorts of lines in Just Cause 2. Running over someone sometimes makes him say "I was aiming for the other guy." Or after hacking into and blowing up a gas pipeline, "Nothing personal... It was a design flaw."
* DestructiveSavior: Rico. Theoretically he's there to free Panau (and San Esperito in the first game) from a vaguely oppressive government, but his modus operandi is literally to cause as much chaos as possible and assist any nearby crime syndicates.
** Not to mention that a possible way of causing said chaos in little villages is destroying their ''water supply''. "Break the chains of oppression", huh, Bolo?

** The AI in the sequel enjoys beaching their own boats and crashing them into each other.

** One level involves [[{{Speed}} a convoy rigged with bombs to explode if it stops moving]]. Of course, this being ''[[RefugeInAudacity Just]] [[BeyondTheImpossible Cause]]'', you need to catch up the convoy and disarm the bombs. Individually. While hanging from the rear bumper. And gunfighting.

** WordOfGod says that the highest attainable altitude is 6.8 km or ~22300 feet, and can be reached using a hot air balloon. A typical cruising altitude is around 33000 feet.

* LostForever: The infamous "MV Command" vehicle is only guaranteed to spawn in a single, optional mission.

** And the [[CoolPlane G9 Eclipse]] with it's quad rocket pods with BottomlessMagazines. Spamming missiles towards the general area of your target from a mile away is also your only hope of hitting something without crashing into it.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqHsdW0xQMQ Though it is possible...]]

** Yet those jet fighters pale in comparison to sport cars. Those cars are [[CoolCar very fast, look extremely pretty]]... and have steering so ridiculously sensitive they become almost impossible to drive at high speeds. In the PC version, at least.
** To a lesser extent, the AH-33 Topachula attack helicopter. It looks much more awesome than the [[BoringButPractical UH-10 Chippewa scout helicopter]], and always comes with rocket launchers. But it can't take much more damage and turns ridiculously slow, meaning those scout choppers will often tear it to shreds.
* AwesomeYetPractical: The grappling hook, obviously. It can be used as a quick form of transportation, a weapon, and all kinds of VideoGameCrueltyPotential, and it's easily used.

* AttackAttackAttack: Used and almost literally quoted (they only say Attack twice) by the Panau soldiers, who will keep comming and [[EnemyChatter sound extremely confident about their chances]] despite the fact that they often have to climb over the bodies of the last 3 waves of soldiers that they send your way.

** You say that like getting rewarded for blowing things up is a ''bad'' thing!

* BilingualBonus: One location in the second game - Awan Cendawan Nuclear Plant - supposedly translates to "Mushroom Cloud Nuclear Plant". How apt.
** In fact, pretty much ''every single location'' in the second game has a name that means something in Indonesian/Bahasa, and most of them are named like real locations would be (like "Bamboo Forest Village", "Town of the Rising Sun" and "Polluted Sky Factory", to name a few). There are over 300 locations, all of them with a proper name. How many developers would put effort into ''that''?