Just Cause 3

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  1. 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.
  2. moonlaba
    Jan 17, 2022
    7
    윙슈트를 타면서 기지를 붕괴시켜 나가다보면 분명 다른 게임에서는 느낄 수 없는 쾌감이 오지만 단순한 파괴의 반복은 역시 빠르게 질린다.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. Domdom21br
    May 22, 2023
    7
    this game is very mediocre, nothing is very good or very bad,its just a another game
  7. 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.
  8. Kadeemluvmusic
    Dec 2, 2015
    6
    I had high hopes for a new Just Cause game to drop. But when this game came out today, I felt that Just Cause 3 is fine and all but couldn't match the shear amount of how awesome the second game as if Michael Bay would've ever dreamed of making a Just Cause movie filled with explosions. JC3 is a disappointment for me. Issues with the specs. Frustrating camera
  9. MooseSpoon
    Dec 14, 2015
    6
    The game is somewhat good. If you're bored and have money to burn but don't feel like going outside, this game will hold you over in short bursts.

    The graphics aren't the greatest, but rating games purely on graphics anymore is silly. The gameplay has a over the top action and situations that are as unreal as they are hilarious. However, this game falls short because the amount of    The game is somewhat good. If you're bored and have money to burn but don't feel like going outside, this game will hold you over in short bursts.

    The graphics aren't the greatest, but rating games purely on graphics anymore is silly.

    The gameplay has a over the top action and situations that are as unreal as they are hilarious. However, this game falls short because the amount of repetition and padding. Essentially, this is a far cry game with half the content and effort.

    It's not outright terrible, but it is not an amazing game by far. The game is average or slightly below. Go find a cheap game on a Steam sale instead of this for more entertainment at a lower price.    … Expand
  10. 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
  11. Burkzy
    Oct 28, 2016
    6
    i can't say that the game is bad, because isn't.
    BUT.
    the poor work that the developers team did about optimization was terrible.

    I'm running this with
    8GB Ram
    nVidia GTX 960m (Overclocked)
    Core i7 4710HQ

    And i got a terrible memory leak.
    Videogame devs should know: Every game can't be good if people just can't play it. lol.
    Try fixing that broken ass game.
  12. Taipan_19
    Jan 15, 2016
    6
    I bought it and played for 8-10 hours. I did not feel at home with it as I did when I first played Just Cause 2. I simply felt that 2 was just a better game in it's general gameplay and cut-scene content. I loved the graphics in 3 and felt that the map itself in this one was much more alive and felt nice on the next gen console.
  13. YCAdrianGames
    Dec 1, 2015
    6
    I enjoy playing this game. The new wingsuit feature is super cool. Gliding around the island is always fun. The grappling hook is more enhanced than that of JC2, which is also a good thing. It really do give players a lot of options. Explosion are of course fun to watch, even though it may grow tiring sometimes.
    However, I am very disappointed about the game's setting. While it has    I enjoy playing this game. The new wingsuit feature is super cool. Gliding around the island is always fun. The grappling hook is more enhanced than that of JC2, which is also a good thing. It really do give players a lot of options. Explosion are of course fun to watch, even though it may grow tiring sometimes.
    However, I am very disappointed about the game's setting. While it has captured it well, it feels a bit bland. Most of them look the same and do not have enough variation (especially when JC2 has mountains, cities, tropical forests and deserts combined together in one map). Rico looks ugly in this game, which sometimes breaks immersion. The plot is ok, like all other JC games. There are some technical issues here and there, but overall it is a game that I find fun to play. Definitely expecting a multiplayer mode from it given how good the JC multiplayer mod is, but there isn't one here, so I'd consider it a missed opportunity. Modders will get to create one someday eventually.    … Expand
  14. dsmith1701
    May 11, 2016
    6
    After playing titles like GTA5, Uncharted 4, this game does not deserve better than 5 or 6. The cut-scenes are lame, the game is really repetitive, the characters are average are best. I am not saying this is a worthless game, but preeeeeety average compared to the real A titles.
  15. trbt555
    Dec 18, 2016
    6
    The makers of Just Cause 3 obviously took a very close look at Far Cry 4.
    However, execution is sub par in my opinion.
    The AI in this game is lame, to say the least.
    Blowing stuff up is fun at first, until you realize all missions are more or less the same, then it gets old really fast.
    Long term playability is limited.
  16. 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.
  17. 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
  18. 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.
  19. 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
  20. captainkane
    Feb 24, 2016
    5
    Six years ago, Just Cause 2 was as fun as it was impressive. So I had high expectations for JC3. Like everyone else, I was disappointed. Not only is JC3 a glitchy nightmare, it lacks innovation and freshness. JC3 is like drinking stale beer, it’s only OK when you’re thirsty, but gets poured down the drain if there are other options.

    The PC version of JC3 looks OK. But with all settings    Six years ago, Just Cause 2 was as fun as it was impressive. So I had high expectations for JC3. Like everyone else, I was disappointed. Not only is JC3 a glitchy nightmare, it lacks innovation and freshness. JC3 is like drinking stale beer, it’s only OK when you’re thirsty, but gets poured down the drain if there are other options.

    The PC version of JC3 looks OK. But with all settings cranked up, it doesn’t outshine its console cousins. Since JC3 is horribly optimized across all platforms, no system has an advantage. Only gamers with powerful computers gain anything since their rigs can crank out high frame rates. My aging rig pushes out The Witcher 3 at 60 frames with nearly everything on ultra. JC3 barely delivers 30 frames. Lowering resolution and disabling features doesn’t improve performance. Fortunately, a new ATI driver fixed enough problems to make JC3 playable. Developers at Avalanche are still dragging their feet. There’s no denying JC3 was rushed to market. All platforms experienced game-breaking bugs at launch. However, Avalanche committed a bigger sin: It made a game that isn’t fun. Not even remotely fun.

    JC3 is plagued with loading screens. Video scenes are broken apart every few seconds by loading screens. So what should be a funny 5 minute outtake will be interrupted every 20 seconds. This breaks the immersion. Even on my speedy ssd, loading takes 3-5 seconds. I hear this is much worse on console.

    Gameplay/combat sucks. Avalanche purposely handicapped Rico so he can’t run or mantle objects. When reviewers called that out, Avalanche said it is forcing players to rely on Rico’s gadgets and vehicles to move around. The outcome impedes fluidity. Yes, there is a ledge there. No, Rico cannot grab it. WTF?! The stilted mobility reminds me of the original Bionic Commando. On a 30 year old platformer, that makes sense. Not in a modern game. Rico can’t jump over a fence or climb a hill. No, no. Rico must grapple it a few feet at a time. I wouldn’t mind the handicaps if grappling worked precisely. But it doesn’t. I inexplicably bounce off helicopters and overshoot cars.

    Gunplay is boring because all weapons feel alike. So combat is dull. Sniping isn’t fun because hit detection is moody. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Star Wars Battlefront has better gunplay. Driving is worse because all vehicles in a class handle identically. All helicopters handle identically. All sports cars handle identically. All tanks handle identically... You get the idea. Also, vehicles just kinda float around. Cars lose control whenever they want.

    The developers at Avalanche put little effort into crafting dynamic gameplay. Unfortunately, tedious mobility and mind-numbing combat are just parts of the problem. The lame missions and even lamer progression truly cement JC3 as one of the most unexciting open-world games in recent memory.

    After 5 years in the oven, JC3 should’ve had a deep and entertaining story. It’s barely passable. The story missions are a joke. Some last a matter of seconds. Others are just driving from points A to B with zero action. The missions are so unimaginative I’m convinced they were added the last 3 months of development. Side missions are pathetic and rarely happen.

    Rewards for exploration are nil. After hours of play, I’ve haven’t experienced random encounters or discovered hidden locations. Except for enemy bases and captured towns, absolutely nothing happens in Medici.

    Liberating towns is blah because they all present duplicate challenges. Simply summon a helicopter via airdrop and shoot everything from the air. Chaos—JC3’s selling point— is shallow because all destruction is scripted. Only color coded objects can be destroyed. Helicopters and tanks can take out bridges or antennae relays, but they’re ineffective against plywood huts. Leave the area and come back seconds later, and many “destroyed” objects will have respawned, including bridges. Freeing a town doesn’t change the status quo. NPC’s stand around repeating the same 3 lines. Additional missions would be nice…

    The progression system sucks. Players must complete challenge events to unlock upgrades. One challenge requires players to fly Rico thru floating rings using his wing suit. Another requires Rico to blow up as much as he can in 90 seconds. Players must complete a series of similar challenges to unlock upgrades in each class. These challenges were pulled straight from Nintendo’s playbook and don’t belong in a hardcore shoot em up. Superman 64 had the same flying thru rings crap and it’s considered one of the worst games ever made. So that should tell ya’ll something. I skip the challenges because they’re silly. No one buys JC3 to glide thru floating rings.

    Overall, JC3 is a shallow experience featuring absent exploration, middling gameplay, and awful missions. Don’t buy it. JC3 is boring, glitchy, and uninspired. It pulls the franchise back 10 years and is definitely one of the worst sandbox games I’ve played lately.    … Expand
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. justanhonestguy
    Dec 17, 2016
    5
    Had a blast for the first few hours until i realized the shallowness and childish gameplay. While graphically excellent, the game is geared for the very young who are satisfied with endless huge explosions and superhero like abilities. You can withstand 50 calibre bullet strikes to the face, and heal from shotgun wounds in 8 seconds. It somehow just seems bogus, even though we all knowHad a blast for the first few hours until i realized the shallowness and childish gameplay. While graphically excellent, the game is geared for the very young who are satisfied with endless huge explosions and superhero like abilities. You can withstand 50 calibre bullet strikes to the face, and heal from shotgun wounds in 8 seconds. It somehow just seems bogus, even though we all know it's a game.... hard to explain. No feeling of impending doom, no real challenge, no real tactics, no real story. Boom boom boom huge explosion repetitive stereotypical ethnic dialogue rinse repeat.
    Your enemies can arrive at a gunfight from miles away within 1, yes 1, second of you initiating said gunfight.
    I found to be game to be really good control-wise even on PC. The graphic engine is used to great effect, and mechanically the controls are fun and engaging. i found the maps to be pretty but empty of any semblance to reality so the endless shoot-explode-flee trope is just not good after a few hours for me.
    I find this is great execution of poor design in my opinion. The programming is excellent but the whole game design is just not fun for a "mature" player. This is arcade fluff, tasty at first but not that good in the long run. Ima rate it 50% for the initial fun. You may have a blast for a few hours, who knows.    … Expand
  24. Cziks
    Dec 16, 2015
    5
    After 20 hours of play time I'm tired.
    I had hours of fun with JC2 and Mad Max, so I was looking forward to play this game.
    Unfortunately Just Cause 3 gets boring way too fast. The map is big but lifeless, every city on the map looks identical, same building, same objects. There is almost no traffic even in the biggest cities on the island. The driving physics are the worst in history    After 20 hours of play time I'm tired.
    I had hours of fun with JC2 and Mad Max, so I was looking forward to play this game.
    Unfortunately Just Cause 3 gets boring way too fast.
    The map is big but lifeless, every city on the map looks identical, same building, same objects.
    There is almost no traffic even in the biggest cities on the island.
    The driving physics are the worst in history of sandbox games and the car damage model isn't very satisfying which is pity. JC3 is a mediocre game at best.    … Expand
  25. 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.
  26. Ljungman
    Mar 24, 2016
    5
    Oh well, what can I say about this mediocre game? Let's start with the negative.

    The biggest thing that was advertised in this game was the big world, and the world is BIG. The problem about the world is that it isn't interesting in any way, it's just repetitive. I found that it was fun going around the first 2 - 3 hours and just going crazy, but other then that there isn't really    Oh well, what can I say about this mediocre game? Let's start with the negative.

    The biggest thing that was advertised in this game was the big world, and the world is BIG. The problem about the world is that it isn't interesting in any way, it's just repetitive. I found that it was fun going around the first 2 - 3 hours and just going crazy, but other then that there isn't really anything else to do. You ride your car, make stuff blow and maybe fly now and then. There isn't really any new areas to explore because all the enemy bases and all the cities look the same. Vehicles aren't really worth using either, because of the boring handling of the vehicles. It just didn't feel good when going at high speed and turning and so on.

    The story isn't intriguing and the missions are all the same. Basically: Go to that base, destroy everything and suddenly you own the area. It was also supposed to be fun exploding stuff, but it really isn't when you've done it for 20 missions straight. I try to think of it as a Michael Bay movie, it was good at first, but now it's just TOO much. Side missions are all the same, where you take a vehicle and do some stunts. I've played this game for 10 hours and I haven't completed it because it doesn't offer me anything new to complete.

    I can say that the graphics are amazing, it looks REALLY good! It's fun to fly with the wing-suit. The destruction is fun at times. Explosions are fun at times.

    Do I recommend this game? If the game costs more then 10 euros, NO. Otherwise, buy it. It's a game you can play for 10 hours, put on the shelf and maybe return to 6 months later to play another 10 hours.    … Expand
  27. Fancheezii
    Mar 4, 2017
    5
    Just Cause 3
    A game filled with some of the best highs and most disastrous lows of any recent game i have played.
    Upon getting this game on release day i was hyped. Loved just cause 2 with at least 3 playthroughs completed on ps3. Arrived at a new triple A title only to find no SLI support... okay. This meant i was using a 680 instead of a 690. On release day this game was nothing    Just Cause 3
    A game filled with some of the best highs and most disastrous lows of any recent game i have played.

    Upon getting this game on release day i was hyped. Loved just cause 2 with at least 3 playthroughs completed on ps3. Arrived at a new triple A title only to find no SLI support... okay. This meant i was using a 680 instead of a 690. On release day this game was nothing short of unplayable. I just love 30fps medium settings at 1080p,, truly glorious. After waiting for some drivers and a couple of patches I got stuck in, and was having great fun. Stuttering on a 4790k aside, i was having fun.
    So lets talk gameplay.
    - The wingsuit, was a very logical and good edition to Just Cause, it aloud for mobility (without vehicles) to be increased massively, although difficult at first, a lot of fun once mastered.

    - Vehicles feel a lot better than in just cause 2 mostly down to the work of Criterion Games who did a fantastic job, except motorbikes, they are horrendous and easily one of the worst things to drive in any game. Lots of vehicle choice with plenty of detail.

    - Challenge scores and Feats that once set your friends can try and beat, a lot of fun to be had. However many of the challenges are incredibly buggy (especially bomb blasts) this 9 times of 10 stop them from being fun and make them more of a chore and an absolute nuisance.

    - Upgrades, not much needs to be said, they are great edition and really help with a sense of progretion throughout the game, good job.

    - Graphics, oh my. Run in 4k on a Titan X Pascal, its nothing short of stunning. Render distances could be improved but apart from that a true feast for the eyes.

    - Story, no spoilers, is a lot of fun but has dodgy characters and terrible pacing with live rendered cut scenes that most of the time go wrong in some way.

    Now, comes for the real problems. Im currently running a 5960x at 3.3ghz and the game doesnt stutter at all even in massive moments of destruction. However it should not be necessary to own a £1000 cpu just to get the game to be smooth. The developers need to get there act together. My game would crash after about 4 hours of play without fault, there are still VRAM leak bugs that havnt been bothered to be fixed. And although I would say compared to most people my game ran well I know a friend with a 6700k and GTX 1080 and the game would flat out refuse to run in full screen without crashing.

    However many hours of enjoyment I have had out of this title I cannot overlook the fact that the Devs released a broken game and have refused to fix it.

    Overall I would give this game a 5/10

    p.s. Dont get me started on the DLCs what a cash grabbing joke, 60% of the time they are absolutely horrendous and the rest of the time they are crashing. They break all of the balance in the game and unless you can get them all for under £5 i wouldn't go anywhere near them.    … Expand
  28. 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
  29. xenn88
    Mar 1, 2017
    5
    You take Just Cause 2, remove half of the fun/content/functionality. and you get Just Cause 3.

    Lackluster story (although story was never really just cause's strong point i guess.) Bad driving mechanics Unpractical keyboard and mouse keymapping (for example closing menus with ctrl instead of esc, which cant be changed.) no minimap Bad UI Random Framedrops And all of this 2 years    You take Just Cause 2, remove half of the fun/content/functionality. and you get Just Cause 3.

    Lackluster story (although story was never really just cause's strong point i guess.)
    Bad driving mechanics
    Unpractical keyboard and mouse keymapping (for example closing menus with ctrl instead of esc, which cant be changed.)
    no minimap
    Bad UI
    Random Framedrops

    And all of this 2 years after release.

    If you like this type of game just get Just Cause 2, you arent missing anything.    … Expand
  30. Renaigse
    Jul 18, 2020
    5
    An incredibly boring game that gradually slides down as the story progresses
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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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