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Just Cause 2 – Xbox 360 Review

I’ll be quite honest. I downloaded Just Cause 2 demo off of the Xbox Live Demo section last weekend. I mean, first off, the Just Cause 2 Demo was enough to make me orgasm my pants time and time again. The content provided in the demo itself was enough to keep me occupied for a very long time. And that it did.

See, I have a hard time paying $59.99 for some underdeveloped piece of shit. And Just cause 2 for the 360 was the exact opposite.

The Skill Levels
When you first start the Game, fresh off of the Xbox Landing page your given the option for different types of game play. Now mind you, this is completely normal, but Just Cause 2 offers a new method lower than “easy mode” called ‘Casual’ it caters to us who want to play the story. We just don’t want to die, and we don’t want a challenge. It this method of game play literally walks you through the game, but allows the player to enjoy all the content in a safer setting.

The world
Now I know alot of people criticized grand theft auto 4 and the whole series for catering to stories more than the actual free-roam aspect. If you’re like me, you wanna wreak havoc! You want to destroy everything, you want to steal cars.

Well your in luck. Just cause 2 allows you to walk out of any mission. Yes, just walk right out. Relinquish your duties, go steal a car, come back, and continue. This is followed by the “Heat Level” a skill point percentage tally based off of the damage you do to stuff. It’s similar to the 1-5 star rating in GTA but not as harsh. 5 stars in GTA is some hard shit to pull off, but Just Cause will allow those that actually want to achieve it, to do so not necessarily with ease, but in a fun and challenging manner.

This being said, go out and buy Just Cause 2. But hey, dont take out workd for it. The demo is up on Xbox Live in the market place 100% free of charge.

As always, you can check out these, and other game demos at http://www.xbox.com/live

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A new TLG segment we are going to start sharing, is the featured blog! This weeks feature is http://www.aaronbartholomew.com/ – He’s the owner of this website, and he gives me a place to write. So go check out his!

PSP Go shows the world that UMD is a thing of the past

Or… maybe not….

The PSP Go was recently released, and it seems Sony has no plan wahtsoever for a conversion of your UMD games that you had with your original PSP. Hey, I’m cool with digital content, but can’t we have the option to play our old UMD Games? And if theres no way to play them (Which is obviously the case right now with the PSP Go) can we at least have a way to convert them?

Just as they do Time and time again, the PlayStation Franchise is proving to us that it’s not a matter of “Hey! We’re releasing this new product – heres all the tools you need to to make it work”, but more of a “Hey, here’s this new product. We have plans to make it work, but they’ll come around in a year when you don’t want it anymore because you’ve already downloaded all your old games out of rage.”

However, Nobody can make this point better than Mega64 - This video was released tonight, and I wanted to share it all with you.

Kudos to you Sony. This is why I haven’t touched a PlayStation product in over 2 years.