Just Cause 3

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  1. TheTactician
    Sep 6, 2023
    5
    I have played all the Just cause games and all of them is garbage.Waste of time.
  2. samtoy3
    Aug 30, 2023
    7
    Ana hikayeyi bitirdim. Tüm challengeları 5 gears yaptım. Hikaye hiç umursamadım, because just cause. Ana odağım baseleri ele geçirip challengeları tamamlamak oldu. Oynarken güzel vakit geçirdim. DLC'lere başladım ama sarmadı bıraktım.
  3. Suprizer
    Jun 10, 2023
    5
    Much more enjoyable than second game, map is just as big and its full of things to blow up, if you are this kind of person who enjoys mayhem than go buy and enjoy blowing **** up.
  4. Domdom21br
    May 22, 2023
    7
    this game is very mediocre, nothing is very good or very bad,its just a another game
  5. Hyperfailure
    Apr 29, 2023
    7
    A fun game of mayhem and havoc that does not take itself too seriously, and manages to get away with it without coming off as obtuse. Mechanically sound and fun to play.
  6. hileger
    Dec 12, 2022
    5
    однообразное говно кто хвалить вы че блять взрывов в играх не видели что веселого , не сценария внятного ,не постановки , нихуя бездарное говно сценарно нужно уходит либо в серъезку либо в откровенный стеб не то, не то современные разработчики или не хотят или не могут иначе набутыляться об обиженок или от пиздателей точнее скорее на издателей нежели на 1% петушков да иоднообразное говно кто хвалить вы че блять взрывов в играх не видели что веселого , не сценария внятного ,не постановки , нихуя бездарное говно сценарно нужно уходит либо в серъезку либо в откровенный стеб не то, не то современные разработчики или не хотят или не могут иначе набутыляться об обиженок или от пиздателей точнее скорее на издателей нежели на 1% петушков да и механики украли у разрабов из 2000х… Expand
  7. LastContrarian
    Jun 13, 2022
    5
    Got it for 1.49 dollars and I am still giving it a 5. And while I enjoy it, it really has some terrible bugs.

    I spent over 9 hours attempting to fix a graphics problem with the game and Nvidia, in 2021. That means it's unlikely the game devs care enough to fix the game. Honestly, gamers should take a stand against these crappy companies releasing slop and then turning tail. It's poor    Got it for 1.49 dollars and I am still giving it a 5. And while I enjoy it, it really has some terrible bugs.

    I spent over 9 hours attempting to fix a graphics problem with the game and Nvidia, in 2021. That means it's unlikely the game devs care enough to fix the game.

    Honestly, gamers should take a stand against these crappy companies releasing slop and then turning tail. It's poor form and showing, and it's a disgrace to the dev team that actually spent time making these games.

    It's a decent game at best, an unplayable and buggy cash grab at worst. Make sure you get a key for 1.49 - a dollar forty-nine cents -- like me

    Just Cause 2 is far better.    … Expand
  8. StarkAgentos
    Apr 24, 2022
    5
    Сюжета здесь нет, его здесь и не стоит искать. Геймплей довольно типичный для экшена от третьего лица и при этом очень скучный. Многим в эту игру играть весело, но не мне. Интерактивности почти нет, ни в какое здание не зайдёшь.Сюжета здесь нет, его здесь и не стоит искать. Геймплей довольно типичный для экшена от третьего лица и при этом очень скучный. Многим в эту игру играть весело, но не мне. Интерактивности почти нет, ни в какое здание не зайдёшь.
  9. moonlaba
    Jan 17, 2022
    7
    윙슈트를 타면서 기지를 붕괴시켜 나가다보면 분명 다른 게임에서는 느낄 수 없는 쾌감이 오지만 단순한 파괴의 반복은 역시 빠르게 질린다.
  10. Yustan
    Apr 8, 2021
    7
    Если вам нужны взрывы экшн и ПТЫЩ! БУМ! БИМ! БУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУМ! То эта игры для вас (+цена небольшая). Если вам нужен сюжет, живые персонажи и проработанный до мелочей открытый мир, то смело проходите мимо и даже не думайте об этой игре.

    Кстати, как мне по-настоящему веселиться, если от местных испытаний у вас может очень сильно подгореть? По моему мнению 7 / 10    Если вам нужны взрывы экшн и ПТЫЩ! БУМ! БИМ! БУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУУМ! То эта игры для вас (+цена небольшая). Если вам нужен сюжет, живые персонажи и проработанный до мелочей открытый мир, то смело проходите мимо и даже не думайте об этой игре.

    Кстати, как мне по-настоящему веселиться, если от местных испытаний у вас может очень сильно подгореть?

    По моему мнению 7 / 10
  11. Noble21
    Nov 28, 2020
    5
    This game really Fun the Story is really flat but gameplay is amazing . Although the PC Optimization is God Awfull even on High end PC's the Game Stutters so much I almost got a Heart attack Playing it. FIX IT !!!!
  12. cezar88augusto
    Nov 20, 2020
    5
    I remember I played Just Cause 2 a few years ago. I can say that Just Cause 3 is an emotionless version. After a few hours of play, the game starts to become redundant and especially boring. I didn't like it and I didn't finish the game.
  13. storytelling
    Nov 19, 2020
    5
    That's what happens when you make big open world "just cause". It has huge world, but zero depth. Music is good. Everything is else gets boring really really fast.
  14. BLurii
    Oct 20, 2020
    5
    It has it's good parts but lacks in others. Pretty repetitive game play, even tho the history is good, the missions get very repetitive in 4 hours of game play. However, the mechanics and explosions are very fun, the fact that you can fly with a flying suit and launch rockets from the sky while being that Hollywood main character that is kind of immortal, one man army and can defeat anyoneIt has it's good parts but lacks in others. Pretty repetitive game play, even tho the history is good, the missions get very repetitive in 4 hours of game play. However, the mechanics and explosions are very fun, the fact that you can fly with a flying suit and launch rockets from the sky while being that Hollywood main character that is kind of immortal, one man army and can defeat anyone he encounters is pretty cool.… Expand
  15. Kotofon
    Sep 27, 2020
    7
    Вас ждет более 1000 квадратных километров свободы. Рико вернулся, чтобы устраивать беспорядки самыми изобретательными способами.
  16. pawq
    Sep 11, 2020
    7
    In short: a largely unsatisfying follow-up to the epic classic Just Cause 2, but with its own charms. Despite the annoyances it was fun enough for me to go for 100% completion :)

    Positive: - multiple tethers, which is just what JC2 was missing - a great wingsuit implementation, which would've also been amazing in JC2; this is one of the biggest advantages of this game imo - pretty    In short: a largely unsatisfying follow-up to the epic classic Just Cause 2, but with its own charms. Despite the annoyances it was fun enough for me to go for 100% completion :)

    Positive:
    - multiple tethers, which is just what JC2 was missing
    - a great wingsuit implementation, which would've also been amazing in JC2; this is one of the biggest advantages of this game imo
    - pretty flora and geography of the world, and some decent vehicle designs
    - plentiful challenges for all types of vehicles (and, crucially, wingsuiting)
    - as in JC2, extremely fun physics. Vehicles + objects + tethers = hours of entertainment.
    - really fun DLC vehicles
    - very decent cutscenes, with some of the best lipsync and motion capture I've seen in a game

    Negative:
    - loading screens ALL. THE. TIME. Literally, I've never seen this much loading screens in a game. Absolute horror to wait through and a major turn-off
    - somehow (how ???) the world wasn't nearly as pretty as JC2. I was barely ever tempted to take screenshots, which happened all the time in JC2, despite 5 years older graphics.
    - extremely repetitive world design and building design from 2005 (buildings are just bricks with 8 vertices from more than 200m away or so), and almost complete lack of unique "fun" locations, which were plentiful in JC2
    - the physics can be quite buggy in some instances
    - utterly hopeless motorcycle handling mechanics (EVEN WORSE than in JC2!)
    - meh story and mostly meh missions
    - overall not as memorable and immersive atmosphere as in JC2 :(    … Expand
  17. Hatooteh
    Jul 18, 2020
    7
    Game is pure dumb fun, only gripe is when there are so many explosions the frames go from 60 to 3 and when it tries to be deep while being a game about blowing up stuff for fun.
  18. Renaigse
    Jul 18, 2020
    5
    An incredibly boring game that gradually slides down as the story progresses
  19. PanMrkvicka
    Feb 11, 2020
    5
    I pre ordered it and it was so dissapointing the story is bad and the gameplay is also somewhat downgraded from the original. OK explosions look better but thats about it but the world is beatiful and free roaming fun for a while but thats it.
  20. muzmuz
    Aug 29, 2019
    5
    For 3$ on sale, I'm not sure if I could complain about a repetitive and boring open world shooter with nothing to offer but nonstop explosions, ridiculously bad driving controls and bland gunplay. But hey, it's still fun because it's cheap, just enjoy the mayhem that this franchise proudly markets itself with.
  21. VincentVegan
    Mar 5, 2019
    6
    Sehr repetetiv aber ideal wenn man zwischendurch etwas in die Luft sprengen möchte. Dazu sieht die Umgebung auch noch sehr gut aus. Die Story lasse ich an der Stelle lieber unerwähnt.
  22. Chickerino
    Jan 22, 2019
    7
    Overall, if you don't care about the plot, then this game's great! Otherwise, this game's not for you. The vast majority of this game is just blowing stuff up and messing about, sort of like a sandbox. It does suffer from a few performance issues, but ran smoothly otherwise. Graphics are ok to say the least.
  23. MysteryBlokHed
    Jan 11, 2019
    6
    I like the destructible walls/bridges in some areas of the game, and the tethers are fun to use, but I don't like that stuff such as extra tethers and planted bombs are locked behind minigame scores. I'm not a fan of wingsuit games or other flying things, so it's a bit annoying for that to be locked.

    The grappling hook is really buggy though, a lot of the time you'll just fall if you're    I like the destructible walls/bridges in some areas of the game, and the tethers are fun to use, but I don't like that stuff such as extra tethers and planted bombs are locked behind minigame scores. I'm not a fan of wingsuit games or other flying things, so it's a bit annoying for that to be locked.

    The grappling hook is really buggy though, a lot of the time you'll just fall if you're not grappling a wall or house. I didn't play the story much, I found it a little bit boring.

    The game is fun, just only for about an hour at a time.    … Expand
  24. kane148
    Jul 22, 2018
    5
    I was really excited about this game after playing Just Cause 2, which was a phenomenal game. Unfortunately, this game turned out to be a pretty mixed bag. The gameplay itself is pretty fun, and I liked that they greatly expanded the variety of weapons available. The addition of destruction physics and additional tether mechanics was also really fun, and allowed you to do all sorts of newI was really excited about this game after playing Just Cause 2, which was a phenomenal game. Unfortunately, this game turned out to be a pretty mixed bag. The gameplay itself is pretty fun, and I liked that they greatly expanded the variety of weapons available. The addition of destruction physics and additional tether mechanics was also really fun, and allowed you to do all sorts of new things. I really enjoyed the game when I was just running around destroying stuff. However, I dreaded playing the story missions because the characters were all either boring or annoying, and unlike the last game, this one seemed to take itself seriously. The story was pretty disjointed and uninteresting, and the ending sequence was just insultingly bad. I don't know if the devs ended up rushed near the end or just didn't care, but the ending was just awful and a total waste of time. Additionally, the game had way too many bugs. I played it quite a while after launch, so there's really no excuse for the dozens of crashes and glitches I experienced. All in all, this game is totally worth playing if you just want to run around and blow stuff up, but don't expect to care about anyone or anything, or for a smooth gaming experience.… Expand
  25. AbeMC
    Jun 7, 2018
    5
    Just Cause 3 brings back the rampage-style gameplay of Just Cause 2; destroying stuff is still as fun as ever.
    But…
    The map is empty. Arcade-style “challenges” gate gear upgrades – and the challenges are rendered frustrating by poor control schemes. Highly demanding on hardware. Glitches and bugs abound. A poor save system. Denuvo drm. Worth a purchase at a deep discount because there is    Just Cause 3 brings back the rampage-style gameplay of Just Cause 2; destroying stuff is still as fun as ever.
    But…
    The map is empty. Arcade-style “challenges” gate gear upgrades – and the challenges are rendered frustrating by poor control schemes. Highly demanding on hardware. Glitches and bugs abound. A poor save system. Denuvo drm. Worth a purchase at a deep discount because there is fun to be had in Just Cause 3, but Just Cause 2 is the better game, despite its age.
    Total size on my hard-drive (XL Edition): 60.2 GB

    + Rampage-focused gameplay is back. Feels just like Just Cause 2.
    + Great sound design. Explosions sound awesome.
    + Great emphasis on movement. Wrist grapple use is greatly expanded.
    + Great soundtrack by Henry Jackman.
    + 1080P High (with Medium Shadows and FXAA) gave me between 60-90fps on my Radeon RX 470.
    + Beautiful visuals. Sky, water and smoke are especially good.

    +/- Story isn’t the reason to play any Just Cause game, and the one in Just Cause 3 is meh at best. They tried to make it serious, which is antithetical to the Just Cause franchise.

    - The multiple factions premise from Just Cause 2 is gone. Rebels vs. dictator. That’s it.
    - Long load times, even when installed on an SSD.
    - Half the number of locations compared to Just Cause 2. Large swaths of the map are empty.
    - No mini-map.
    - No weapon or vehicle upgrades. Yes, you can “mod” different functions, but Just Cause 2 had five different levels for most items in the black market store. No more.
    - Always online – tied to your Steam login. If the Steam servers go offline (like they do every Tuesday for about 10 minutes for servicing), Just Cause 3 will pause itself and ask if you would like to continue in off-line mode. When the Steam servers come back up, it will log back in.
    - No cloud saves – despite the “always online” feature.
    - Bad save system. Exiting the game returns you to the nearest base next time you start the game. Just Cause 2 had the same issue, but in that game fast-travel simply cost money; in Just Cause 3 the ability to fast-travel is tied to how many flares you have (there is a limited number).
    - Advanced spawns are ridiculous. An endless stream of over-powered enemies. Hijacking a tank is your only hope.
    - Glitchy bug-fest. Many remain unfixed to this day (like the forum-famous “Precision Aim” glitch for the mission “Reach Rosa’s Plane”).
    - Complete arcade-style challenges to earn “gear.” That’s fine, except vehicle, wingsuit and aerial controls are so bad as to make each trial a chore.
    - Needs CPU horsepower. My i5-4590 (Haswell) goes to 95% load (on all four cores) during big explosions.
    - System ram usage averaged around 9.5 GB while playing (I’m running Windows 7 x64). Those with 8GB of ram could run into issues, despite the store page saying 8GB is enough.
    - Rico is Italian now instead of Hispanic? Why?
    - Very little health.
    - Wing-suit controls are awful.
    - Driving controls are sluggish and have rubberband inputs (“Turn left. Turn LEFT!” And now you’ve held the key too long and the car goes off a cliff). Criterion (Burnout series, Need for Speed) supposedly assisted with the driving mechanics, but you’d never know it.

    I love running around in a sandbox and watching the destruction engine get to work, but there are just too many negatives to make Just Cause 3 a recommended purchase. Considering the total package, Just Cause 2 is more fun - there’s more to do, the b-movie action story is actually better, it’s a lot less glitchy while still being decent to look at – and it runs great on today’s powerful hardware. It’s a sad declaration on the state of gaming that a game from 8 years ago has so much more to offer than this latest installment. If you want to get Just Cause 3 anyway, wait the XL Edition at a deep discount (75% or more). With Just Cause 2 frequently discounting to $3 during sales while being the better game, there’s no reason to spend more than you have to on Just Cause 3.    … Expand
  26. Warmuro
    May 29, 2018
    5
    It's a funny and enjoyable game for 1-2 hours, after that, it gets really boring because you find yourself doing same things over and over again. Story is bad, and it stays behind the all the mayhem you cause. If you want to destruct objects and love big explosions, it's great. If you need a really good quality game, stay away.

    Pros: +Big explosions and effects +You feel like you're    It's a funny and enjoyable game for 1-2 hours, after that, it gets really boring because you find yourself doing same things over and over again. Story is bad, and it stays behind the all the mayhem you cause. If you want to destruct objects and love big explosions, it's great. If you need a really good quality game, stay away.

    Pros:
    +Big explosions and effects
    +You feel like you're in a stupid action movie, you feel unstoppable
    +Helicopters and tanks make you feel even more powerful
    +Big map

    Cons:
    -Non-existent AI
    -Stupid gun fights
    -Extremely bad driving. (Especially fast cars and motorbikes and planes)
    -Bad story
    -Repetetive
    -Graphics are not that good, except water and water effects and explosion effects
    -Optimization could be better
    -Gets boring and you don't wonder what will happen next
    -Bad looking main character    … Expand
  27. mhmdv
    May 27, 2018
    6
    It has the same problems as Just Cause 2, so why does this game gets panned while 2nd game gets praised is beyond me.
  28. Sjalka
    Mar 18, 2018
    6
    It looks good, but feels odd. The world is large .. but feels kind of insignificant. Actions are repetitive and all in all .. the game is simply too easy. Enemies just stand there waiting to get shot, weapons feel like pea shooters, vehicles have an odd feeling of "driving on rails". The aircraft are OK, the cars are terrible.

    The grappling hook is fun .. but all in all, there is no    It looks good, but feels odd. The world is large .. but feels kind of insignificant. Actions are repetitive and all in all .. the game is simply too easy. Enemies just stand there waiting to get shot, weapons feel like pea shooters, vehicles have an odd feeling of "driving on rails". The aircraft are OK, the cars are terrible.

    The grappling hook is fun .. but all in all, there is no challenge.

    When compared to lets say .. Clancys Wildlands .. that tries to take a more serious tone (for the lack of a better term of a single person overthrowing an entire country to be serious and realistic anyway...) There is simply no depth in Just Cause 3.

    I did like the character though .. Rico is fun and his comedic sidekick is surprisingly not so annoying. Other characters feel quirky and the whole game does not take itself any serious at all.

    Oh, on the technical side .. i actually do have quite an expensive PC and the game ran smoothly most of the time .. but micro-froze every now and then, especially in passages that involved travelling quickly (like gliding at very low altitude) .. which made many challenges impossible.

    It is above average .. but by no means outstanding.    … Expand
  29. Juffdaman
    Dec 5, 2017
    5
    Lots of fun to be had here, but the game seems like it doesn't want you to be on the ground. I feel a huge disconnect when I see Rico doing insane acrobatics and then barely being able to manage a slow jog during a firefight. I really don't see why there isn't a sprint feature. The left stick-click button isn't used at all in this game. This could have easily been a crouch, sprint, or aLots of fun to be had here, but the game seems like it doesn't want you to be on the ground. I feel a huge disconnect when I see Rico doing insane acrobatics and then barely being able to manage a slow jog during a firefight. I really don't see why there isn't a sprint feature. The left stick-click button isn't used at all in this game. This could have easily been a crouch, sprint, or a dodge roll; three features from previous games that desperately needed to return.

    The main problem with this game is that it claims to be a sandbox game, but it seems to shoehorn you into the same method of destruction every time. Fly in, shoot a few things, and fly out when the heat gets to be too much, rinse and repeat. Since the left-stick click has no key binding, it leads me to believe that a sprint function existed at some point, but was retroactively removed in order to encourage players to fight a certain way ( I actually read a forum post by one of the devs that suggested this). The DLC wing-suit with the jet boost really goes a long way to bandage the problem, as the game becomes almost 100% focused on aerial combat after it is obtained, making it extremely fun to always fight in the air.

    That being said, I would have liked to spend more time on the ground, getting to see more of the beautiful world the devs created up close and personal. Unfortunately, the ground-based combat is so dull that it doesn't really seem to break up the pacing between the aerial combat portions. The game would honestly be a 9 for me if you could sprint. I hate that this was the deciding factor for me, but in the end I couldn't get past Rico's slow running speed. Hopefully Avalanche learns from this and improves the on-foot combat in the future.    … Expand
  30. dr9188
    Apr 19, 2017
    7
    This potentially suffers from being a bit TOO silly? I mean the series has never aimed at being a hyper-realistic guerrilla warfare simulation, but there is a specific point in the game my suspension of disbelief started to disappear.

    That being said, it is insanely fun... More so than the 2nd game. Like the game before, you can get lost liberating towns and cities... except now you    This potentially suffers from being a bit TOO silly? I mean the series has never aimed at being a hyper-realistic guerrilla warfare simulation, but there is a specific point in the game my suspension of disbelief started to disappear.

    That being said, it is insanely fun... More so than the 2nd game. Like the game before, you can get lost liberating towns and cities... except now you really do feel like you're part of a movement, your men really do take over and protect the towns you've liberated. JC2 still had an element of this, but now you feel part of it rather than having your men just happen to turn up at the right time.

    Also, the game is insanely beautiful. JC2 was a pretty game, although one town largely felt like any other. Here, we see more variety... It really feels like you're travelling a Mediterranean countryside.    … 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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