Just Cause 2 Grapple Mechanic Developer Diary

Just Cause 2 Grapple Mechanic Developer Diary Eidos Avalanche Studios Just Cause 2 The Grapple Andreas Nilsson: (Senior Programmer) In the first game we had the grappling hook like a weapon or like a device that you had to choose from your inventory but in this game we integrated it to Rico’s arm. Magnus Nedfors: (Game Director) It’s always valuable for you playing in any position when the running you can shoot, grapple and while free falling through the air you can use the platform and, you can use it in all different situations with your arm, you can latch on to something really you know platform and you can combine that with another big feature from Just Cause 1 is the parachute. Andreas: It’s totally integrated into combat you can tether out an enemy from a distance to a lamppost and he will hang there and he’s totally defenseless and then you can run over there and lash him with the grap hook. Peter Johansson: (Lead Game Designer) There’s a lot of things that you can do with a dual hook. Andreas: You’re in a combat situation and you meet three characters and a car is driving by and you tether one of the enemies to the car and it drags away and then he’s gone and then a helicopter shows up and you can tether the next guy to the helicopter and he’s gone. And then you see a red barrel on the rooftop and I can pull down the red barrel on the last guy. Peter: Just a while ago actually ago a guy at the office discovered that you can tether an enemy to one of this gas canisters that we have spread around. Shoot the gas canister to make it sort of the pressure makes it fly away. That of course takes that enemy with it so you can see him fly away screaming behind that gas canister that’s really nice. Andreas: Another thing you can do with it is we call juggling you can tether an enemy, you pull him towards you and when he’s flying through the hair you shoot him so it takes off and keep doing that he’ll be gone off ground. Magnus: That being part of you want to use it for is stunts. Peter: I like to lift vehicles with a helicopter and actually using that vehicle as a wrecking ball because we’re useful if you don’t want to waste ammo. Andreas: There’s going to be some very, very few in patience so much can do with the grappling hook. I think players are going to invent new ways of using the grappling hook. Just Cause 2 coming 2010