Wed, Mar 17, 2010 | 20:20 GMT
Just Cause 2 demo downloaded over 2 million times
Square and Avalanche released another Anatomy of a Stunt video today for Just Cause 2, along with announcing that the game’s demo had been downloaded over 2 million times since March 4.
Here’s the blurb from the PR mail:
Since its launch on March 4th, the Just Cause 2 playable demo has taken the internet by storm, receiving well over 2 million downloads. In that time, players have driven a distance equivalent to a trip from the earth to the moon and back four times; Panau Island has lost almost 30 million of its population (with approximately 2.5 million headshots, almost a million drivers hurled from hijacked vehicles and 27,000 Piñata kills); and players have BASE jumped the equivalent of a freefall through the Earth’s core, pole-to-pole, twice.
That’s a load of stats right there.
You can watch the video over on The Lost Gamer, where agent Rico Rodriguez demonstrates that even a harmless island taxi can be turned into a deadly missile.
Game’s out on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 March 23 in North America and March 26 in Europe and not to worry – it’ll get some DLC lovin’ after release.
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Posted in: Action, Adventure, Eidos, Hot, PC, PS3, Square Enix, Xbox 360
Tags: avalanche, just cause 2
11 comments
#1
Xanthene
17/03/10, 8:32 pm
i don’t think that 2 million is anything to brag about. the game is horrible and the demo will probably hurt games sales rather than help.
#2
Michael O’Connor
17/03/10, 8:49 pm
You are possibly the only person I know that thinks that Just Cause 2, based on the demo, is a “horrible” game.
I haven’t had that much fun with a demo since Burnout Paradise.
#3
Filofax
17/03/10, 9:31 pm
Really looking forward to the full game next week.
#4
loki
17/03/10, 9:33 pm
and 2 millions regrets about that
#5
Syrok
17/03/10, 9:45 pm
Not at all. It’s great fun. The story and voice acting will probably be crap, but causing chaos is so much fun.
#6
Madlink
17/03/10, 9:46 pm
Loved the demo. It made the game a ‘must have’ for me. Just really good fun.
@Xanthene and loki, Why no love for Just Cause 2?
#7
MushroomStamp
17/03/10, 9:55 pm
I agree.. this game is a BLAST!! it’s just FUN!
#8
Tamo123
17/03/10, 11:16 pm
This is definitely a game I will be buying on release day unlike Ubisofts titles. These developers actually deserve the money.
#9
Michael O’Connor
17/03/10, 11:26 pm
Am I the only one who found it really surreal when the Square Enix logo popped up on screen though? It’s strange seeing Square’s name on a game like this…
#10
Blerk
18/03/10, 8:34 am
No, that was a bit of an eyebrow raiser for me as well.
I played through the demo and thought it was interesting, but I didn’t get the “instant love” thing that I thought I would like I did with the Crackdown demo. It all seemed a bit fiddly and I wasn’t entirely clear what I should even be doing aside from “trying to destroy things with a logo on them” which I seemed to have some trouble finding. I think I need to go back and play it again.
#11
DaMan
18/03/10, 6:08 pm
the demo was good.
better than I expected, really didn’t like the first game myself.