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So you’re lucky. Your significant other wants to sit down and play a game. And not just any game, either. The title that’s piqued interest is Just Cause 2, Avalanche Studio’s stunt-tastic open-world shooter. But Reddit user rfry11 found his lady love stymied by what he says are poor design choices and bad tutorials that befuddle new players.
Avalanche Studios unveils Renegade Ops, a downloadable vehicle-based action game with up to four players battling to save the world from terrorists. Renegade Ops is coming to the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 later this year from Sega.
Can’t say that Just Cause 2′s brand of open world gun and explosions gameplay is the sort of thing that immediately appeals to me, but hook-shotting your way onto a helicopter or flying propane tank is undeniably appealing.
Just Cause 2 looks like it’s more than merely Bionic Commando set in some banana republic. There’s jet plane surfing!
The game is slated to skydive in next year. Hopefully it won’t feel as rushed as the previous title.
Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios is having to trim their staff by 77 people in the face of two lost publishing contracts over the past year, worth an estimated $US34 million. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Avalanche CEO Christofer Sundberg explains how the layoffs came about. “We lost the first deal in February but we could survive that one because we had a shortage of staff in other projects and we decided to put together a team to work on an original IP that we had in development. But the team that were working on a project that was terminated last week – there were about 67 people on that team.”
