After Red Faction Guerrilla, Prototype and inFamous its hard to believe another open world game could trot out this year and blow them all away. But Just Cause 2 might just do that with its combination of A+ action and insane paragliding stunts.

You play as Rico Rodriguez again only this time you look at little more action star and a little less Latin porn star than you did in the last game. This time instead of a volatile South American island nation segmented by civil war (that was definitely not Cuba, definitely not) you're on a volatile south east Asian island nation segmented by war (that is definitely not Malaysia). The fictional island of Panau, your job as a CIA operative is to generally stir things up and play the various warring factions of Panau of each other. Unlike a real life CIA operative who specialise in messing of Middle East peace negotiations and failing to anticipate terrorist threats.

That guy with the gun doesn't look like he wants to help you

I won’t be surprised if you’re skeptical, after the first game I was skeptical of a sequel delivering anything better than a diversion. But trust me, when you watch the vid after the jump all skepticism will be swept away.

And just in case you're a real hard sale, still rubbing your chin and kicking tires, here's a few more screenshots.

I promise you, this game will kick your ass till you love it when it debuts for 360 and PS3 in 2010.

Just like Bionic Commando... only, ya know... good

Thats a round house kick Chuck Norris would nod approvingly at