Just Cause 2 is an open-world action-adventure video game developed by Avalanche Studios, published by Eidos Interactive,[4] and distributed by Square Enix. It is the sequel to the 2006 video game Just Cause.[5][6] Just Cause 2 employs the Avalanche Engine 2.0, an updated version of the engine used in Just Cause.[6] The game is set on the other side of the world from the original Just Cause, on the fictional island of Panau, which is located in south-east Asia. Rico Rodriguez returns as the protagonist, aiming to overthrow the evil dictator Pandak "Baby" Panay and confront his former mentor, Tom Sheldon. The game picks up a couple of years after the first Just Cause, with Agency operative Rico Rodriguez being dropped into Panau, a fictional island nation in the Malay Archipelago of Southeast Asia. Formerly a US ally, Panau is ruled by Pandak "Baby" Panay (the son of the former leader, US-friendly "Papa" Panay, whom Baby Panay is suspected to have murdered) who institutes a harsh, oppressive dictatorship and cuts off all ties to the US. Rico's mission is to oust Panay from office, as well as track down and assassinate his old mentor, Tom Sheldon, who the Agency fears has gone rogue after disappearing during the regime change. In order to find Sheldon, Rico allies himself with the three dominant criminal gangs on the island: the Roaches, an organized crime syndicate, the Reapers, a communist revolutionary army and the Ular Boys, an ultranationalist tribe opposing foreign ...