Fun destruction and chaos
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“Spent 10 hours destroying bases and hijacking helicopters 10/10 would do again”
Steam review · 33 h played ↗
Just Cause 2
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 90%Very Positive · 90%Avalanche Studios2010Sandbox · Action · Adventure
The verdict
A huge, explosive sandbox where the grappling hook and parachute make getting around fun, but the PC port crashes on modern systems and the loop gets repetitive. Skip it if you hate collectathons or fiddly fixes.
Great for
Players who want mindless explosive chaos, grapple-and-parachute traversal and a giant map to roam
Main risk
Frequent crashes or failure to launch on modern Windows and GPUs, needing community fixes
What players love
Huge, varied open world
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“The sense of scale in this game is crazy, all these years later this 360 game still has one of the largest open world maps ever made.”
Steam review · 25.2 h played ↗
Grappling hook and parachute traversal
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“Pairing the grappling hook with the parachute was pure flow-state energy”
Steam review · 166.1 h played ↗
Graphics hold up for its age
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“The graphics are the best I've seen so far, for a 2010 game this takes the cake.”
Steam review · 78.8 h played ↗
Cheesy story that stays out of the way
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews
“The story is strictly there as an excuse to blow things up”
Steam review · 380.1 h played ↗
Runs well on old hardware and Steam Deck
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews
“it runs perfectly out of the box on Steam Deck with high graphic settings and very low TDP”
Steam review · 121 h played ↗
What players complain about
Frequent crashes and launch failures
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews
“You're likely going to have the same issue that everyone else is having where the game crashes every twenty minutes.”
Steam review · 20 h played ↗
Repetitive grind and copy-paste bases
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“After a while you're simply repeating the same activities over and over again.”
Steam review · 9.7 h played ↗
Clunky, janky controls and movement
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“Winner of "worst controls ever devised by a human being".”
Steam review · 5.3 h played ↗
Dated compared to Just Cause 3
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“Unless you are playing this game before you play Just Cause 3, don't bother. It feels like a huge downgrade.”
Steam review · 3.8 h played ↗
Empty map and slow travel
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews
“travel takes up what feels like 30% of the game time.”
Steam review · 5.2 h played ↗
Chaos grind gates the story
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews
“most of the time you'll be destroying same oil tanks, generators, statues and transformers in order to progress and unlock next story missions.”
Steam review · 41.5 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support10 GB
Minimum
OSMicrosoft Windows Vista (Windows XP is unsupported)
ProcessorDual-core CPU with SSE3 (Athlon 64 X2 4200 / Pentium D 3GHz)
Memory2GB System Memory
GraphicsDX10 compatible graphics card with 256 MB of memory
Storage10GB of free drive space
Recommended
OSMicrosoft Windows Vista SP1 or Windows 7
ProcessorIntel Core® 2 Duo 2.6 GHz or AMD Phenom X3 2.4GHz or equivalen
Memory3GB system Memory
GraphicsDX10 compatible graphics card with 512 MB of memory
OSMicrosoft Windows Vista (Windows XP is unsupported)
ProcessorDual-core CPU with SSE3 (Athlon 64 X2 4200 / Pentium D 3GHz)
Memory2GB System Memory
GraphicsDX10 compatible graphics card with 256 MB of memory
Storage10GB of free drive space
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