Awesome / Just Cause

• The penultimate mission, "Sink the Buccaneer", also deserves a mention. Problem: you have the presidential destroyer armed with three nuclear warheads stored in armoured containers. Solution: jump a monster truck into a military base to get the codes, steal an armoured vehicle with anti-aircraft cannons and drive it to the military port while shooting down pursuing helicopters, then use an underwater scooter to navigate the mine-laden harbour, climb aboard the destroyer, and blow it to holy hell with C4 charges.
• The ending of the first game deserves special mention. After Rico jumps out of his own plane, that he used to chase and shoot down not one, but three cruise missiles, and onto the presidential jet, climbs inside, and massacres the dozen or so heavily armed bodyguards protecting Salvador Mendoza, the San Esperito dictator, his target bails out of the plane at ten thousand feet in an act of desperation. Rico leaps after him, controls his fall so that he is right above Mendoza, and plants a stick of dynamite square in the middle of his back. He then opens his chute and glides away, muttering "See what happens when you piss me off?" as Mendoza explodes in a massive midair fireball behind him.