Just Cause (video game)/Awesome

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  • The gameplay mechanics are such that Rico can star in one every thirty seconds or so.
  • The ending of the first game deserves special mention. After Rico jumps out of his own plane and on to the presidential jet, climbs inside, and massacres the dozen or so heavily armed bodyguards protecting Salvador Mendoza, the San Esperito dictator, his target bails out of the plane at ten thousand feet in an act of desperation. Rico leaps after him, controls his fall so that he is right above Mendoza, and plants a stick of dynamite square in the middle of his back. He then opens his chute and glides away, muttering "See what happens when you piss me off?" as Mendoza explodes in a massive midair fireball behind him.
  • And the ending of the second doesn't? Baby Panay, Panau's dictator, has nuclear missiles aimed at the U.S., Japan, Russia, and China, as they're fighting for Panau's rich oil supply. He launches them, but gets caught on one of the missiles. Rico grapples onto another one, and as he gunfights Panay while surfing the nuclear missiles, he disarms the missiles one by one. At the last missile, the one Panay's riding, he jams Panay into the missile and redirects its guidance system to explode above Panau's oil fields, thus ensuring that the four countries will stop fighting for Panau.