Just Cause

Like one-time NFL superstar Ricky Williams, Just Cause shows early promise—using the game's grapple hook to hitch onto fleeing Jeeps and parasailing behind is terrific fun—but instead of blooming into a must-have disc, the game decides to vanish into the mountains, grow a beard that would have made Abe Lincoln feel inadequate, and then hit the hookah morning, noon, and night. You play as the suave Rico Rodriguez, an operative hired to trigger a revolution and bring a corrupt government to its knees. With a 250,000 acre island to stage your coup and some truly spectacular OH-SHIT-style missions, this game has potential. But its utterly forgettable title (Just Cause? That's the best you could come up with Eidos?) and gameplay that's buggier than Maine on the 4th of July both ultimately doom this game to straight to bargain bin status.