I gave the Just Cause 2 demo a whirl earlier on, and I must admit that I’m a little torn on whether I liked it or not.

It seems like most of my major concerns with the game have been fixed – the driving is way better than it was and the weird wanted system seems to have been straightened out – and it’s certainly bright and colourful.  But it seems to have done a ‘Warrior Within’ and made Rico a much darker character than the first game.  Admittedly that’s based on a very short intro movie – with some of the least convincing accents I’ve heard since, well since Heavy Rain, but I was under the impression that Rico was supposed to be ‘James-Bond-played-by-Antonio-Banderas”, a likeable rogue, not some grim mercenary calling himself ‘Scorpio’.

More importantly, the gameplay is based around ‘rampaging’, where you go out of your way to cause as much property damage, it’s even called ‘Chaos’ in game.  This kind of play has never really appealed to me as I’m much more of a story orientated kind of guy.  It’s going to be a rental I think, definitely not a buy.