Just Cause 3

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  1. dmahnke64
    Mar 24, 2017
    4
    All the time I played the game in between crashes and the 90 hours I played before the game corrupted my save file causing me to start all over again was great. The crashing at least once per session and the loss of all my progress after 90 hours of grind, not so much.
  2. J4MESOX4D
    Dec 1, 2015
    4
    Just Cause 3 has released in absolutely shambolic fashion with myself and many other users reporting horrendous performance issues on rigs that surpass even the recommended settings. After many hours of self-optimising and tweaking; even on the latest Nvidia drivers; this game is of a standard not too dissimilar from that of Arkham Knight. With even Xbox One reporting frame rate dropsJust Cause 3 has released in absolutely shambolic fashion with myself and many other users reporting horrendous performance issues on rigs that surpass even the recommended settings. After many hours of self-optimising and tweaking; even on the latest Nvidia drivers; this game is of a standard not too dissimilar from that of Arkham Knight. With even Xbox One reporting frame rate drops south of 15fps; it is collectively a disappointing release all round. The amount of stuttering on PC makes this game virtually unplayable as of now and even the developers pathetic short-term laughable fixes of 'running the game as an admin' doesn't work. The last time developers were this clueless was Rocksteady and we all remember the AK saga too well...

    Technical woes aside; this game is not as enjoyable as the last outing with a boring story, dreadful characters, terrible mechanics, painfully repetitive and underwhelming missions and a huge but bland landscape. The combat and explosive elements are fun at first but after a few hours it just becomes tiresome. There is also no manual save, checkpoints aren't clear and the intro along with general loading screens are far too long.

    It is clear that this game has been released without any due care whatsoever just to grab as many sales as possible before the year end and the quality of the product is in the hands of developers relying on the infamous 'get out of jail' patches to work to any acceptable standard. Avoid until this has been proven to work to the level expected on a variety of setups and even then, don't expect a grand and enjoyable experience. A disappointing end to another dismal year of gaming.    … Expand
  3. PrincessRose
    Feb 27, 2019
    4
    While I loved Just Cause 2 and played the hell out of it, just don't feel the same with Just Cause 3. The controls feel terrible and clunky and the characters are annoying and just not having fun at all. It seems like that just cause 3 takes out all the fun elements that JC2 had and just makes it feel tedious and bland.

    When Iam starting to get into it get interrupted by annoying load    While I loved Just Cause 2 and played the hell out of it, just don't feel the same with Just Cause 3. The controls feel terrible and clunky and the characters are annoying and just not having fun at all. It seems like that just cause 3 takes out all the fun elements that JC2 had and just makes it feel tedious and bland.

    When Iam starting to get into it get interrupted by annoying load screens and have to watch stupid characters like Mario yammer on in a boring soulless way.
    Just can't get into it at all.
    Game feels off and lacking in a certain je ne sais quoi as the French say not sure what??

    And after this appalling game there is no way I'd go near JC4 as that seems even worse.    … Expand
  4. Crackfarmer
    Dec 9, 2015
    4
    Terrible Game, Denuvo protection - for those guys who doesn't know what this is - it's an anti-cracking protection to prevent it gets pirated but the part the most people don't know is that this can harm your cpu & ssd. Just based on this fact the Game is a pure disaster to me.
  5. Revenanter
    Dec 3, 2015
    4
    What's the point to use crap DRM like Denuvo to improve initial sales, when you need to wait weeks to fix all the bugs ?
    The crack will be out soon and we legit buyers will need to wait more for a patch to fix all the fps loss, bugs, glitch, ecc.
    My personal suggestion : stay away from this crap till the fix all, and wait for a discount, atm is only a boring piece of buggy beta.
  6. lhmtgame
    Feb 28, 2017
    4
    To me, Just Cause title is just a Wretch It Ralph. Game's stories is not impressed and boring since JC1.
    Yeah! The game is JUST FOR FUN (like Serious Sam).
  7. JimmyJams
    Apr 26, 2018
    4
    Arcady open world game that gets old fast. The grapple + wingsuit movement system is wonky and not as smooth as it could be. No adjustable difficultly making this game super easy. The stupid capture system makes me tediously hunt down every destructable object in an area and destroy it to capture a base. Multiply that tedium by 30-40 for each base in the game and you have yourself someArcady open world game that gets old fast. The grapple + wingsuit movement system is wonky and not as smooth as it could be. No adjustable difficultly making this game super easy. The stupid capture system makes me tediously hunt down every destructable object in an area and destroy it to capture a base. Multiply that tedium by 30-40 for each base in the game and you have yourself some seriously laborious work to do. Every base is the same with the only variance being the size. It's got the Far Cry 3 effect going pretty strong.

    Anyway I played it this long only to see if it got better. Didn't. Boring.    … Expand
  8. SurujSingha
    May 14, 2020
    4
    Solid Gunplay+ Brilliant graphics+ Massive well-crafted map. Besides it, everything is out of order. The story is trash (trust me its even worse than Just Cause 2). Realism doesnt exist in Avalance's book and a result Jc3 is just another Saints Row game but without **** and aliens. This isnt what i expected. Liberating regions becomes boring eventually with repetitive gunfights and noSolid Gunplay+ Brilliant graphics+ Massive well-crafted map. Besides it, everything is out of order. The story is trash (trust me its even worse than Just Cause 2). Realism doesnt exist in Avalance's book and a result Jc3 is just another Saints Row game but without **** and aliens. This isnt what i expected. Liberating regions becomes boring eventually with repetitive gunfights and no variation in gameplay. I expected more serious assassination missions like jc2. If you love explosions and large scale firefights and riding choppers and vehicles, buy it. But if you want a more grounded approach, dont buy it.… Expand
  9. Andrevery
    Jan 5, 2022
    4
    Меня игра не зацепила. Все выглядит слишком шаблонно и открытый мир не хочется исследовать. Рублей за 100 можно взять, но я бы лучше посоветовал Saints Row 4, например.
  10. MickEllix
    Dec 4, 2015
    3
    AMD BEWARE!!! map was just triangles even with a r9 290x so I thought oh well not very optimized for this card so I put in my old r9 280 nope still **** triangles lol I have to use an even older Nvidia card to play, game companies like this are a cancer to PC gaming. gameplay is fun but I cannot respect the release now fix later attitude
  11. wgerik
    Feb 13, 2016
    3
    I hate this game. So, so much.

    Not because the gameplay itself isn't fun... it is... it really is. The problem is, Avalanche has once again released a game that is utterly broken and crashes CONSTANTLY, which is frustrating beyond words. I can't go more than half and hour in-game without crashing to the desktop. And don't get me started on trying to change video resolution in-game. In    I hate this game. So, so much.

    Not because the gameplay itself isn't fun... it is... it really is. The problem is, Avalanche has once again released a game that is utterly broken and crashes CONSTANTLY, which is frustrating beyond words. I can't go more than half and hour in-game without crashing to the desktop. And don't get me started on trying to change video resolution in-game. In short, that's a guaranteed crash, every time.

    I'm having flashbacks to Just Cause 2, where even now, many, many years after its release, it's still buggy as hell and is plagued by frequent crashing. Based on Avalanche's response to those issues, I think it's pretty clear that they don't give a damn about the stability of their games, and I think it's safe to assume that they will never release the updates necessary to fix the problems with Just Cause 3.

    My advice: don't waste your money, unless you enjoy the frustration of crashing every 20-30 minutes and having to wait several more minutes to relaunch the game and actually start playing again. If I could get a refund at this point, I most certainly would.    … Expand
  12. iStrong
    Dec 1, 2015
    3
    Just Cause 3 has better graphics and a better grappling hook compared to Just Cause 2. That's about it. Just Cause 3 gets incredibly dull and boring very fast. All you do in this game is blow stuff up. Sure, that's fun at first, but it wears off very very fast. The story is nothing special and it's incredibly short. The side missions are a joke, all you have is races(which are the exactJust Cause 3 has better graphics and a better grappling hook compared to Just Cause 2. That's about it. Just Cause 3 gets incredibly dull and boring very fast. All you do in this game is blow stuff up. Sure, that's fun at first, but it wears off very very fast. The story is nothing special and it's incredibly short. The side missions are a joke, all you have is races(which are the exact same as in Just Cause 2), and these destruction challenges. The destruction challenges are a waste of time and their only purpose is to unlock the gear mods. That's about it. Incredibly boring and dull side activities. This game is all about blowing stuff up. Incredibly shallow. Gets boring super fast. No multiplayer, no coop. Was expecting more from this game. Just play Just cause 2, you won't be missing out on anything.… Expand
  13. metatomato
    Dec 21, 2015
    3
    Horribly inconsistent, bad control response time, terrible technical performance, and laughable story. Its a shame because on the rare occasions when these things dont get in the way, the game is actually pretty fun
  14. WindomEarle
    Dec 3, 2016
    3
    Don't buy it! Really irritating and not worth even $9 IMO. The game has so much potential, but it is wasted. Story is basically the same as in the 2nd part. Gameplay gets boring after a couple of hours. I stopped playing after about 20 attempts to "Protect Rosa's plane" - it's impossible. My guided rockets don't work and the plane is to slow to catch up. That was it for me.
  15. Mobile
    Jan 27, 2018
    3
    ENG
    Brainless game,from beginning to end. Although this is not accurate, because this is not a game but rather a simulator of destruction of buildings and their location. I can not believe that these are the people who made the game Mad Max. There is no desire to describe all my admiration and impression, so as I just finished the passage and I just want to rest and forget about this    ENG
    Brainless game,from beginning to end. Although this is not accurate, because this is not a game but rather a simulator of destruction of buildings and their location. I can not believe that these are the people who made the game Mad Max. There is no desire to describe all my admiration and impression, so as I just finished the passage and I just want to rest and forget about this game.
    RU
    Безмозглая игра,от начала до ее конца. Хотя это не точно, ведь эта не игра, а скорее симулятор уничтожения построек и их нахождения. Даже не верится что это те люди которые сделали игру Mad Max. Нет желания описывать все свои восхищения и впечатления, так-как я только что закончил прохождения и просто хочу передохнуть и забыть об этой игре.    … Expand
  16. Hellanger
    Dec 17, 2021
    3
    Very stupid dialogues, I played 5 hours and deleted this game.
    1. It is impossible to control transport here
    2. The plot here is very simple, even too simple, the developers probably thought that underdeveloped children would play it. 3. A lot of grind, all we do is capture enemy bases But there are also pluses, explosions are very well implemented and there is a lot of action per    Very stupid dialogues, I played 5 hours and deleted this game.
    1. It is impossible to control transport here
    2. The plot here is very simple, even too simple, the developers probably thought that underdeveloped children would play it.
    3. A lot of grind, all we do is capture enemy bases
    But there are also pluses, explosions are very well implemented and there is a lot of action per square meter on the screen. Which hints that the game should be developed online, but here you made a mistake, he is almost not here, he is dead here, all you can do online is to blow up cities with a friend and that's it.    … Expand
  17. LQSNIXT
    Jan 23, 2021
    3
    Terrible game! The story mode is so short and task after story are boring long and hard to do. Game have too much candy graphics, worse than old samsung amoleds, and gameplay is glitchy - when you playing and go AFK for a while, npc stars fighting and making mess . Unrealistic .And the map is boring and have same type of object every time, developers even not change colour of some vehiclesTerrible game! The story mode is so short and task after story are boring long and hard to do. Game have too much candy graphics, worse than old samsung amoleds, and gameplay is glitchy - when you playing and go AFK for a while, npc stars fighting and making mess . Unrealistic .And the map is boring and have same type of object every time, developers even not change colour of some vehicles or bulidings, they are the same, and the shape of bulidings is the same too. Overral, game is boring and glitchy, there is not many things to do, map is boring and dont have even onnline services… Expand
  18. Egill4
    Dec 5, 2015
    2
    Unfinished broken mess of a game. The game goes from 80 fps down to sub 30 fps on my GTX 970 PC in a matter of seconds, that's completely unacceptable. Flying around in a wingsuit is fun but that's about all that's fun in this game. The missions are boring and repetitive and liberating outposts is tedious and annoying. Its a shame because I loved Just Cause 2.
  19. x0v3rKiLx
    Aug 28, 2016
    2
    Blowing up fuel tanks is fun, but that fun quickly turns into tedium as you find yourself confronting more and more difficult, tedious enemies. Want an edge against those enemies? You'd better be ready for some tedious challenges, which wouldn't be a problem if the driving and wingsuit controls weren't completely horrendous. I want to know who thought that people wanted to fly throughBlowing up fuel tanks is fun, but that fun quickly turns into tedium as you find yourself confronting more and more difficult, tedious enemies. Want an edge against those enemies? You'd better be ready for some tedious challenges, which wouldn't be a problem if the driving and wingsuit controls weren't completely horrendous. I want to know who thought that people wanted to fly through rings and practice "jihad-jeeping" for 20 hours straight just to get extra slots for "beacon" tokens, which are now the only way to get supply drops...

    The story takes literally two hours to complete unless you have the IQ of a peanut, enemy AI has one mode - "bum rush", and SAM site overuse completely ruins aircraft in the game. You WILL not be able to use a jet or helicopter to take down a base. At all. It must all be done on foot, all without the ability to even so much as CROUCH.

    Everything that was fun and awesome about Just Cause 2 is completely MIA here. Absolutely anything fun in this game is either gated behind unfair AI, grindy minigames, or arbitrary "defense systems". Save your money and stay away from this game. It's barely worth the two hours you'll spend with it before wanting to gouge out your own eyeballs, and *definitely* not worth whatever price you'd pay for it.    … Expand
  20. PAA1
    Dec 2, 2015
    2
    I pre-purchased the game with dlc from steam, and now i regret it.
    The game is a crap - in the first mission itself one can find out that - you are visiting an area and tasked to destroy a few things that's it. All is focused on explosions, almost no story line. The worst part, Long Loading Times -

    Also not to forget the fps issue, even with JC3.
  21. DaveNull
    May 28, 2016
    2
    Laziest PC port ever. Can't even be arsed to properly map the esc key and uses ctrl by default instead. Be prepared to spend an hour remapping keys if you are a keyboard/mouse player. (and apparently it won't remember them). I want my $15.00 back. How is this remotely acceptable?
    Also, no borderless windowed mode.
  22. chemguy2001
    Jun 19, 2016
    2
    I'll start by saying that I was a HUGE fan of the second game in the series. Easily one of the biggest, most immersive games I've ever played. This game is the exact same size, but don't let that fool you. There may be the same amount of square mileage in the game, but somehow the developers managed to make it feel smaller by having less actual settlements (there are only about 100 totalI'll start by saying that I was a HUGE fan of the second game in the series. Easily one of the biggest, most immersive games I've ever played. This game is the exact same size, but don't let that fool you. There may be the same amount of square mileage in the game, but somehow the developers managed to make it feel smaller by having less actual settlements (there are only about 100 total settlements in the game, JC 2 had over 250, with extra chaos objects scattered around the world). Even knowing this, I still was willing to give it a shot. Then I tried literally everything the game had to offer. The races: not much different from Just Cause 2, but the physics of driving makes the cars feel weightless, like little feathers that can get thrown from the road after hitting a simple bump or pebble. Fail. The air races: the plane controls are unresponsive. It feels like you're trying to turn the entire earth on its axis using little more than a finger. Fail. The demolition challenges: half the time you get pigeon-holed into using a single weapon inadequately suited for the task at hand. If you DO manage to find a tank or helicopter that you can use instead, I would refer you to the aforementioned bit about driving and flying. Fail. The boat races: sometimes the amount of time to get 5 stars is more than enough, but other times, you're using every last drop of nitrous to get a 2 star score. Fail. The wingsuit courses: fine control of the wingsuit is difficult, but it's made even more difficult when half the checkpoints are literally 2 feet off the ground (sometimes with rocks or trees spawning inside them) combined with nearly 90 degree turns that cause Rico to go spinning out of control like a dreidel spun by the Incredible Hulk. Fail. These would all be forgivable shortcomings, until you realize that these challenges are also tied into the upgrade system, so if you want better stuff, you're gonna have to grind for it for hours, achieving what feels like very small rewards (i.e. faster drop recharge times- if you have to order anything from a drop, you're just being lazy; literally everything you need can be found in the game world). Upgrades are possible, but if you want the really high end upgrades, like the ability to fold up your wingsuit and grapple into a mountainside instead of faceplanting into it like a bug on a car windshield, prepare to grind. Then there's the actual settlements. Clearing the towns is kind of stupid because you have to take over a police station, requiring you to generate a certain preset amount of chaos, but if you accidentally destroy one of the objects inside before letting your buddies in, good luck reaching that amount without having to steal a military car or two and driving it inside the station solely to blow it up (you don't get credit for chaos outside the base walls). Clearing military settlements is a little fun, but you're constantly dealing with hordes of enemies. This wouldn't be a problem if Rico were as invincible as he was in the second game, but somewhere between then and now he seems to have had his old adamantium wolverine-like bones replaced with cotton candy. It is ridiculously easy to die. Case in point: in JC 2, you could take 2 or 3 solid hits from rocket projectiles fired from tanks, helicopters, etc. Good luck if you get touched by any rocket propelled anything in this game. Rico turns into a big pile 'o dust. That was what made JC 2 so fun. Then we come to the missions. In JC 2, half the fun of the missions was listening to the cutscene dialogue. Every character in the game seemed somewhat self-aware that this was a B action movie and the writing was just terrible, so it all seemed very tongue-in-cheek. This game actually tries to be a good action movie, but it still has the same crappy writing and plot-line. The result is a painful series of cutscenes surrounded by what is actually pretty good mission design, in most cases (with one glaring exception). That exception comes about halfway through the plot. I won't go into plot detail in case you still want to play this train wreck. Suffice to say it involves intercepting a friendly plane and escorting it. But, oh no, there's an aerial ambush planned (see what I mean when I say the plot is crappy). So it logically starts you off in a plane located about 1.5 km away from your escort target, but the planes trying to intercept your ally somehow have engines fit for Apollo shuttles, so they close the distance much quicker. This leaves you with having to snipe the planes from a distance. It would be great if there was a lock-on function, but there isn't. It would be great if the plane you were in had nitrous, but it doesn't. It would be great if the plane controls were a little more responsive, but they aren't. All-in-all, this single mission finally put me over the top with trying to deal with all the little issues and made me say, "Screw it." Learn from my misadventures. Don't buy this game.… Expand
  23. Aeyos
    Jul 29, 2016
    2
    This game is super-fun at the beginning, but as you start to progress you see how developers totally abandoned the game towards the end. The cinematics at the start of the game are good, but when compared to the ending cinematics just wants to make you cry, they definitely didn't put time into it and was without a doubt rushed. The game has a lot of yet unfixed bugs, making some missionsThis game is super-fun at the beginning, but as you start to progress you see how developers totally abandoned the game towards the end. The cinematics at the start of the game are good, but when compared to the ending cinematics just wants to make you cry, they definitely didn't put time into it and was without a doubt rushed. The game has a lot of yet unfixed bugs, making some missions impossible or too easy. Balancing is non-existent, sometimes a thing looks impossible while other times I can just stand and tank bullets. The boss fight is unmentionable, too easy and quick, just use a tether on the chopper's nose and the ground and pull. It takes forever to load even though I have an SSD and a GTX 970 SC. The car physics are a joke, when I went to ram a tuk tuk with my truck, I almost stopped and the truck did a wheelie. All in all, an unpolished and unfinished game which's fun only at the beginning… Expand
  24. Darkison
    Jan 25, 2018
    2
    Está em busca de um game mal otimizado, com uma história horrível, repetitivo, e com personagens ruins? Just Cause 3!
  25. d79054d2
    Jan 16, 2016
    1
    While the previous part (Just Cause 2) was still somehow funny and entertaining, the latest part lacks of everything but nice graphics. I still don't understand why Avalanche messed up this one so badly. Worst optimization (dead even with Batman: Arkham Knight), clumsy controls and annoying characters. The developers are still busy releasing patches, but I seriously doubt they will EVER beWhile the previous part (Just Cause 2) was still somehow funny and entertaining, the latest part lacks of everything but nice graphics. I still don't understand why Avalanche messed up this one so badly. Worst optimization (dead even with Batman: Arkham Knight), clumsy controls and annoying characters. The developers are still busy releasing patches, but I seriously doubt they will EVER be capable to make the game running smoothly. I really do.… Expand
  26. AlyssaX
    Dec 3, 2015
    1
    MGS V the phantom pain, Fallout 4, Assassin's Creed Syndicate and now just cause 3. Can this year get more disappointing?
    Thanks for ruining all these great games, companies$$$$
  27. Martinp123
    Dec 2, 2015
    1
    The game is fun, if you like constant stuttering and crashes. I play on PC with an i7, 8GB ram and a GTX 760 and on medium settings im getting less than 30 FPS with stuttering constantly. When my rig can run Fallout 4 on high and 60fps no bother. This needs to be patched ASAP and in doing so i will alter my review. Until then its an unplayable mess.
  28. Shpadoinkle
    Dec 4, 2015
    1
    Released as a complete technical mess, Just Cause 3 is another testament to the corrosion of trust between games industry and customer base, as well as a major disappointment to fans of the first two games that expected a substantial upgrade over the last installment - in many respects, JC3 feels like a significant step back.
  29. ciuchina82
    Dec 1, 2015
    0
    Sadly it's just another mediocre game with no effort in making it smart and enjoying. The military bases are all the same, the landscapes are repetitive, weapons are childish. You are supposed not to use your brain during the whole campaign. And as for graphics, it doesn't utilize the power of my GTX 970 because it's very unpolished and rough
  30. ChosenOne
    Jan 1, 2017
    0
    I was pretty hard to launch the game first time. It crashed few times, hung my PC few times... When I finally managed to start it - it worked perfectly. But it looks like it manages to start only few times in a week. Other times it tells that I have no internet connection and freezes (my connection is perfect by the way), or just freezes on a first loading screen.
    When it works - it's a    I was pretty hard to launch the game first time. It crashed few times, hung my PC few times... When I finally managed to start it - it worked perfectly. But it looks like it manages to start only few times in a week. Other times it tells that I have no internet connection and freezes (my connection is perfect by the way), or just freezes on a first loading screen.
    When it works - it's a great game, really fun and perfectly optimized. But what's a point of this when I can't actually play it?    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 50 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 50
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 50
  3. Negative: 0 out of 50
  1. Games Master UK
    Feb 9, 2016
    79
    This isn't the best open-world game, but it's a blast. [Jan 2016, p.62]
  2. CD-Action
    Feb 4, 2016
    85
    It boasts some great improvements over the previous game of the series, but does not evolve the formula in any significant way. It looks better and lets you glide in a wingsuit, but its scale is not surprising anymore. It lets you unleash wonderful chaos in unscripted skirmishes, but its story missions fail to enrich the experience. All the same it is my kind of game. I love playing with its systems, I appreciate the effort put into JC3 and I return to Medici from time to time for condensed doses of havoc. [01/2016, p.48]
  3. PCWorld
    Jan 19, 2016
    80
    Just Cause 3 is a monument to excess. It’s Hot Shots. It’s Charlie Chaplin in The Dictator, if Charlie Chaplin had rocket-powered C4 in his boots. It’s that scene in Dr. Strangelove where Slim Pickens rides the nuke into Russia, except...well, no, it’s pretty much exactly that scene on repeat for 25-30 hours.
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