The actual act of hijacking vehicles has become more involved in certain instances as well. If a vehicle has an armed guard in the passenger seat, Rico will have to deal with them first. Sometimes reaching in and wrestling with them happens through Quick-Time Events, but more interestingly, sometimes you’ll have a shootout, using the vehicle itself as cover. For instance, grappling up to a helicopter, Rico faces a copilot attempting to shoot him off. Hanging from the chopper’s nose, you can jump to either side of the cockpit to gain cover from the fire. Once an opening presents itself, a quick leap over and the copilot’s falling to an embarrassing doom.
Based on the simple aspect of rewarding random destruction with progression of the story, the devs have addressed one of the main complaints of the original game: exploring the world was great, but there wasn’t enough to do that mattered. The other part of having enough to do revolves around the side missions. We saw significant variety in the handful of story missions we witnessed, but we don’t know how well the side mission structure has been beefed up. Since the game world and mechanics looked just about finished, a fall release gives plenty of time to polish up the missions and make sure there’s more to do than random destruction and the main story missions, although from the look of it, that random destruction has so many possibilities this time around, it could keep players’ inner mercenaries occupied for quite a while.
Mar 31, 2009
