Quote: "Okay, so you have 100+ vehicles to destroy stuff with, a massive island to destroy stuff in, and missions that tell you to go destroy stuff. But still, all you do is run around shooting and blowing things up."
There is a lot of blowing stuff up, yes. But it's not all that. The island itself is an incredible place to explore, and the ways in which you can traverse it are many and varied. It's also as stunning to see underwater as it is above, which is quite rare.
There are some really fun 'race missions', where you don't blow anything up, it's just about getting from A to B as fast as possible - and in JC2 that can mean anything - drive a bike off a cliff and parachute there, take a chopper or a jet fighter, or a motorbike for some pretty awesome off-roading. Sometimes there are "ascent" races, where you have to grapple and climb to the top of really tall places as quickly as possible. There are also package missions (finding lots of packages, some at sea, etc).
I agree the story is paper thin, and the videos all focus on the blowing stuff up, but it's a true sandbox game with a beautiful engine powering it. And just
exploring is fun enough for me.
Quote: "For me, gameplay comes second to story"
That's really bizarre. For me story is almost irrelevant, gameplay is
everything.
