Just Cause 2 employs the Avalanche Engine 2.0; an updated version of the engine used in Just Cause. The game is set on the other side of the world from the original Just Cause, on the fictional island of Panau in Southeast Asia. Panau has varied terrain, from desert to alpine to rainforest. Rico Rodriguez returns as the protagonist, aiming to overthrow the evil dictator Pandak “Baby” Panay and confront his former mentor, Tom Sheldon.
We set the graphic options to their highest settings with SSAO on high. Anti aliasing was disabled however we toggled on x16 anisotrophic filtering.
At these settings the game remains playable throughout, enabling AA proves too much and the engine performance drops dramatically.