Recommended Sandbox style games?

Just Cause 2

What can I say? I love both games, Shadow of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat have some gameplay differences which are causing that they can’t be compared. Shadow of Chernobyl have much more maps, but smaller I think, too much cash you can’t spent, weapons and suits can’t be fixed, but still there are so many of them on map that this is not problem, enemies can’t use grenades, caches need to be unlocked to find something in them. CoP has 3 big maps, weapon/stuff repairing and upgrading, invisible artifacts and detectors for them, “blowouts” and new AI for every monster plus 2 new of these, caches are just item groups put on map from beginning, so next time you will play you can get everything on start. So, both games are worth ending them at least one time. sry for eng at the end

Holy shit Just Cause 2 is freaking awesome…
Strongly recommend

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