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Dive into an adrenaline-fuelled free-roaming adventure with 400 square miles of rugged terrain and hundreds of weapons and vehicles.
Just Cause 2 is a open world, action and sandbox game
developed by Avalanche Studios
and published by Square Enix.
Released on March 23rd 2010 is available only on Windows
in 7 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Polish and Russian.
It has received 50,739 reviews of which 46,001 were positive and 4,738 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.78€ on Gamivo.
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Windows
- OS *: Microsoft Windows Vista (Windows XP is unsupported)
- Processor: Dual-core CPU with SSE3 (Athlon 64 X2 4200 / Pentium D 3GHz)
- Memory: 2GB System Memory
- Hard Drive: 10GB of free drive space
- Graphics: DX10 compatible graphics card with 256 MB of memory
(Nvidia GeForce 8800 series/ ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro)
- Sound: 100% DirectX 10 compatible sound card
- DirectX®: Microsoft DirectX 10
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I remember the first time I played Just Cause 2. It was early 2010. I was sixteen, my soul hungry for chaos, my heart still unaware of the weight nostalgia would one day carry. That day, I bought a cheap copy with some leftover birthday money. A plastic case, a simple disc, for my dusty old PC. But it wasn’t just a game. It was the beginning of something. It was Just Cause 2. I installed it, launched it, and it was as if the real world faded away. I spent every hour of that day soaring across Panau. The jungles, the cities, the deserts — stitched together by impossible stunts and explosions. I wasn’t playing it. I was living it. And then came so many freefalls, so many crazy escapes. Endless hours tethering enemies to gas tanks and sending them flying. I knew every village, every military base, every hidden easter egg. And without any guide—when YouTube tutorials were still slow and rare—I found every upgrade, every ridiculous secret. It was my world. It was home. Every now and then, my father would glance at the screen, shaking his head at the madness. He came from a world of Pac-Man and Space Invaders — a world with no parachutes, no grappling hooks. I still remember the time I showed him how to skydive off a helicopter onto a moving car. He just laughed and said, “That’s not a game. That’s a movie.” It was my refuge. It was our small bridge. And now, years later, I go back. The world has changed. I have changed. I’m thirty-one now. And he... he’s no longer here. Yet every time I boot up Just Cause 2, it feels like opening a window into the past. The graphics are rougher now, the controls a bit stiff, but the heart remains untouched. Every explosion, every whistling freefall, every ridiculous stunt speaks a language only the soul can hear. It’s the voice of youth. It’s the whisper of my father laughing at the impossible. Just Cause 2 isn’t just a game. It’s a time machine. It’s a second chance to touch, even for a moment, what we thought we had lost. And as I grapple onto a helicopter in the sunset skies of Panau, I remain there. Fingers on the keyboard... And a tear I cannot tell — whether it’s sorrow or gratitude.
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This thing is a gem, that I only recently did all achievements for, I have owned the game for close to 15 years. I would say this game due to it's age has become a classic, but it was since it's inception an extremely well made game, with a gigantic open world, that has lots to do in it, both content wise and non content wise. What I mean by non content wise, is probably the core of what made the game so great, you have a grappling hook. While this may not seem much at first glance, it's the Swiss army knife of grappling hooks. The amount of crazy things you can do, with the very few tools it contains, which is to be honest all the same tool, is astounding. What the grappling hook is, is two steel hooks with a steel wire between them. This might not sound like much, but the hooks can attach to anything and the cable can or can not be attached to you. Meaning you can slap people around using it as a flail, you can super pull yourself around like a monkey on crack, you can assist your parachute making a parasail, you can tie enemies to lamp posts and hit them like pinatas, you can tie enemies together and hit them like pinatas, you can flip pursuing vehicles sending enemies flying off of bridges, you can attach explosive objects to vehicles, you can use debris or other vehicles as giant flails attach to your vehicle... By now, you are probably getting the point and my lackluster imagination probably haven't even dipped into the fountain of crazy stuff. This paired up with a 400x400km map, littered with enemies, explosives, destructive mega objects and a bunch of other stuff every few hundred meters for you to play with, makes for a very destructive playground. Completing the entire map takes maybe around 80-100h, but the point isn't to complete the entire map, the point is to go in, get creative and make Pandak Panay run scared.
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Pro tip for getting this game to work on modern systems: go into options of the game, and set decals to "off" Before i did that the game often crashed on me after 30 min of gameplay. But after this it became alot more stable! so stable that i could even complete all story missions of this super fun action game. this game is great - the amount of chaos you can do as Rico is a pinjata of enemies blowing up, overtaking enemy helicopters and planes - along with all the things you can destroy if you want to. And the game features one of the largest open world maps made in any game. I had not have this much fun since old school GTA 1-2.
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One of my favorite games of all time. The main story and the side missions are great, but the ability to just leave and do whatever you want cannot be understated. There's nothing like the sheer amount of joy and the feeling of freedom I get when I do something crazy like sneak onto a military base to steal a plane, fly across the entire map shooting at everything I see, and then crash the plane into an oil rig (parachuting out at the last second, of course).
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There are 4 of these games. This is the one you should pay attention to. Coming back to this game after having played the 3rd and 4th installments is truly a breath of fresh air. While Just Cause 3 modernized the series and brought lots of welcome little QoL improvements to the table, Just Cause 4 effectively took the least appealing aspects of JC3 and, rather than dispense with them and mingle the best of 2 and 3, leaned further into them, driving a death nail into the series in the process. Avalanche went the wrong direction with the series, and it started with the changes to the physics and animation. JC2 is so wonderful for largely the same reason that the violence in Tom and Jerry is wonderful. It's the physics, sound effects, and the sense of real weight and momentum behind everything that makes it so viscerally satisfying and fun. JC3 and, more so, 4 felt very loose and floaty, which immediately breaks immersion. That was my main gripe with the sequels to this game, but there is a laundry list of other unfortunate design choices that were made that I'm certain others have pointed out. All that to say, this is the best one. Absolutely one of the highest value-for-money games you can buy. Most of the time you can buy it for less than a bag of pork rinds. Heck, you can buy this whole series for peanuts. Go ahead. It's not like you can't extract at least SOME joy out of JC4. Play it with your friends. Pass the controller around. Get it on your Steam Deck. This series is perfect for mobile fun.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Just Cause 2 is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.
Just Cause 2 is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.99€ on Steam.
Just Cause 2 received 46,001 positive votes out of a total of 50,739 achieving a rating of 8.91.
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Just Cause 2 was developed by Avalanche Studios and published by Square Enix.
Just Cause 2 is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Just Cause 2 is not playable on MacOS.
Just Cause 2 is not playable on Linux.
Just Cause 2 is a single-player game.
There are 8 DLCs available for Just Cause 2. Explore additional content available for Just Cause 2 on Steam.
Just Cause 2 does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Just Cause 2 supports Remote Play on TV. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Just Cause 2 is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Just Cause 2.
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Online players
91
Developer
Avalanche Studios
Publisher
Square Enix
Release
23 Mar 2010
Platforms
Remote Play
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