{"id":817,"date":"2010-04-12T18:01:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T01:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/?p=817"},"modified":"2011-01-12T21:53:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T04:53:32","slug":"just-cause-2-demo-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/just-cause-2-demo-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Cause 2 Demo Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5290\/5350663987_c51e8539c1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-818\" title=\"Just Cause 2\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5290\/5350663987_c51e8539c1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did not really have much of an interest in playing Just Cause 2, but after reading and hearing a lot of people&#8217;s reviews of how much they loved it I decide to give the <a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.xbox.com\/en-US\/games\/offers\/0ddf0001-0000-4000-8000-00005343880d?cid=SLink\">demo<\/a> a try. I can see why people are enjoying Just Cause 2. It is a huge open world with a great grapple hook and parachute mechanic. However, after playing the demo I just don&#8217;t really care for Just Cause 2.\u00a0 The weapons all felt pretty weak and lame. The story, at least in the demo, seemed to be there just to give you a reason to run around and blow stuff up.\u00a0 Which can be fine but combined with the really bad voice acting I found it really annoying.\u00a0 With games like Red Dead Redemption and Crackdown 2 coming out in the coming months I&#8217;ll be getting my fill of open world, sandbox games very soon.\u00a0 No reason to play a mediocre one now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not really have much of an interest in playing Just Cause 2, but after reading and hearing a lot of people&#8217;s reviews of how much they loved it I decide to give the demo a try. I can see why people are enjoying Just Cause 2. It is a huge open world with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[97,142,5],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","tag-demo","tag-just-cause-2","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}