Just Cause 2 Black Market Aerial Pack
Three aerial toys for Just Cause 2's sandbox: the fastest jet in the game, a multi-lock missile launcher, and parachute thrusters that keep you airborne longer. Niche, but delivers for players who live in the sky.
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About Just Cause 2 Black Market Aerial Pack
I'll be straight with you: this is a small DLC and it knows it. The Black Market Aerial Pack drops three items into Just Cause 2's already-chaotic sandbox, and the value entirely depends on how much of your time in Panau you spend off the ground. If you're the kind of player who grapple-slingshots between mountaintops and steals every aircraft you can find, this pack was made for you. If you mostly drive, shoot, and grapple at ground level, you can skip it without missing much. The headliner is the F-33 DragonFly Jet Fighter, and it earns its top billing. It is the fastest plane in the base game, clocking in at around 413 km/h, and it arrives fully upgraded to six stars right out of the Black Market. The armament is genuinely excessive in the best possible way: four miniguns and dual rocket pods mounted under the wings. Compared to the other aircraft you can commandeer in vanilla Just Cause 2, the DragonFly sits in a class of its own for air-to-ground strafing runs. Players in the Just Cause 2 multiplayer mod reportedly called it overpowered, which tells you everything about how it handles in a normal single-player rampage. The Multi-lock Missile Launcher is the sleeper pick here. Community writing around the other Black Market DLC specifically calls it out as the stronger missile option compared to alternatives, and in practice it rewards players who want precision targeting rather than spray-and-pray. It fits naturally into Just Cause 2's rhythm of escalating chaos: lock on, launch, watch the destruction chain. The Dual Parachute Thrusters are more situational. They extend your parachute glide by boosting you forward, which sounds great until you factor in that you lose them on death or game restart and need to repurchase from the Black Market every time. For players who have mastered grapple-slingshotting for fast travel, the Thrusters will feel redundant. For players still learning Panau's aerial traversal, they are a genuine quality-of-life addition during that learning window. The pack sits comfortably at "Very Positive" on Steam with 86% approval across 138 reviews, which is about right. Nobody is disappointed who understood what they were buying: a jet fighter with absurd firepower and a couple of supporting aerial tools. The honest caveat is that the Thrusters' consumable nature makes them the weakest of the three items for regular play, and the whole pack assumes you already love the base game enough to want to extend a specific playstyle. This is not a content expansion. It is a power-fantasy accessory for a game that was already built around power fantasies. Alex, Scout Team
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- Developer
- Avalanche Studios
- Publisher
- Square Enix
- Release Date
- Apr 29, 2010