Just Cause

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7.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 296 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 142 out of 296
  2. Mixed: 97 out of 296
  3. Negative: 57 out of 296
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  1. TomM.
    Mar 16, 2007
    0
    Worst game I have ever seen, lots of bugs, the A.I is predictable and there is no such ting as ragdoll. People die and fall down like they do on CS 1.6. Its just too bad they didn't finish the game, it could have been so much better if the bugs were fixed and if they made a better job with the missions. The idea is not bad.
  2. MagnusLund
    May 6, 2009
    1
    89 vehicles that all look and handles like poop.
    250.000 acres of tropical island that all look the same.
    303 unimaginative and bland missions. this game is truly about quantity over quality....sadly. the rest of the stuff- AI, Combat, controls, sounds, graphics, story, gameplay etc etc. can all be summed up in one word: TERRIBLE. the game gets 1 point for the parachuting/para    89 vehicles that all look and handles like poop.
    250.000 acres of tropical island that all look the same.
    303 unimaginative and bland missions.

    this game is truly about quantity over quality....sadly.

    the rest of the stuff- AI, Combat, controls, sounds, graphics, story, gameplay etc etc. can all be summed up in one word: TERRIBLE.

    the game gets 1 point for the parachuting/para sailing which is the only thing that they have done right in this game.

    in other words, stay the hell away from this game, even if you find it as a bargain deal, like I did, it's still not worth the money. AVOID AT ALL "CAUSE"(ok lame pun but whatever :-P )    … Expand
  3. BlorgB.
    Jan 21, 2007
    1
    I bought this game, wich was my first mistake....couldn't belive how a tilte like this can be shipped. Its way to buggy on a 360 ...and I've heard its even worse on the PC. Gameplay is mindless, I've played freeware better than this.
  4. Chris
    Jul 19, 2007
    3
    Bad controls. no storyline. a cheap,shallow GTA spin-off.
  5. JhonBogerty
    Oct 15, 2006
    0
    Bought it, sold it, regretted ever looking at it.
  6. Sam
    Aug 31, 2007
    4
    Demo was fun but the game got boring after just a few hours. GTA ripoff, no storyline. Every mission was "kill this guy" or "retrieve this item."
  7. DavidP.
    Aug 26, 2006
    4
    What a disapointment! Months of hype, excellent pictures and some fanstastic video and we end up with a turkey! If this demo is indicative of the finished games then I wont be wasting my money. The AI is basic, the "freeform" exploration actually punctuated with new missions and constant barrages "complete the mission" the vehicles are impossible to drive and despite playing this over and What a disapointment! Months of hype, excellent pictures and some fanstastic video and we end up with a turkey! If this demo is indicative of the finished games then I wont be wasting my money. The AI is basic, the "freeform" exploration actually punctuated with new missions and constant barrages "complete the mission" the vehicles are impossible to drive and despite playing this over and over again I have yet to discover the grappling hook ! It is also seems to lurch from extreme difficulty ie land self on moving car and kill god like boss, to arcade simplicity when taking on 100's of tooled up police who will barely damage your own god like health! All in all a game best avoided if the demo is anything to go on.… Expand
  8. SourceCS
    Dec 19, 2008
    3
    The good things:
    You can be a passanger, when hp is low slomo activates, lots of stunts, mounted guns on vehicles, multiple weapons that you can switch between (in a vehicle ofcourse), nice graphics, good features in PDA. Weapons, vehicles, guns ar availabel in safe house and they are diffrent in every safehouse, parachute feature is great, lock'on target feature.
    The Bad things:    The good things:
    You can be a passanger, when hp is low slomo activates, lots of stunts, mounted guns on vehicles, multiple weapons that you can switch between (in a vehicle ofcourse), nice graphics, good features in PDA. Weapons, vehicles, guns ar availabel in safe house and they are diffrent in every safehouse, parachute feature is great, lock'on target feature.
    The Bad things:
    Every time you change graphics you have to restart, laggy on low graphics (high graphics gave me best performence), nothing to do in free roam besides kill, get bounty, hijack. Tereble controls when sweeming under water, borring missions, borring gameplay, bad hadlings on a ground vehicles, Lame AIs, retardet pursuits.
    I rated 3 cause it's borring. The game is woth attention, but not worth buying it    … Expand
  9. besttuanlong
    Nov 24, 2013
    3
    If you like GTA, Don't EVER buy this game, it will bug the Hells out of you (Story, graphic, characters motion, music, everythings). Buy San andreas instead.
  10. Keydub
    Oct 15, 2006
    1
    Almost as bad a Driv3r! DO NOT BUY THIS GAME ITS TERRIBLE, stick with GTA San Andreas its still the best!
  11. Keydub
    Sep 24, 2006
    2
    Almost as bad a Driv3r! DO NOT BUY THIS GAME ITS TERRIBLE, stick with GTA San Andreas its still the best!
  12. Larry223
    Jun 21, 2015
    3
    Decido darle una segunda oportunidad al titulo. Inicio el juego, no me dicen nada de lo que pasa, salto de un helicóptero y toca matar gente. Por qué? No tengo idea, creo que todo el juego son excusas para matar. Pensaba hacer al menos 5 misiones a ver si lo soportaba, pero ni eso me dura sin errores. Inicio el juego y no tiene su traducción, ni al menos subtítulos al español, de echo todoDecido darle una segunda oportunidad al titulo. Inicio el juego, no me dicen nada de lo que pasa, salto de un helicóptero y toca matar gente. Por qué? No tengo idea, creo que todo el juego son excusas para matar. Pensaba hacer al menos 5 misiones a ver si lo soportaba, pero ni eso me dura sin errores. Inicio el juego y no tiene su traducción, ni al menos subtítulos al español, de echo todo esta en ingles sin posibilidad de cambiarlo. De hay intento abrir el paracaídas y no se puede, no se si fue mi teclado pero la segunda ves que intente al reiniciar me funciono. Pero cuando caí al agua la cámara no subía a la superficie. Imagínate que es GTASA y saltas al agua, pero la maldita cámara solo te deja ver a tu personaje desde los pies y no puedes subirla. Eso me paso. De hay intento de nuevo y paso una mision, de hay pienso que tal ves la cosa mejore, pero un carro me atropella y quedo atrapado en un bug en el que estoy encerrado en mi moto mientras atravieso un carro sin la posibilidad ni de mover la propia moto.

    Supongo que es un juego de matar y una mala historia para ocultar que eso es todo. No lo complete y no lo completare, es perder el tiempo para ser honesto.

    03/10

    Le daría un 4, pero sin ninguna traducción y 3 bugs en solo 5 minutos de juego. No vale la pena ni para matar el tiempo.    … Expand
  13. mouli
    Sep 30, 2014
    0
    It is not a good game for shooting type ,i don't like it.....the soldiers keep on coming here and there ,after even we shoot them .....the still come again and again ....
  14. VidyaBum
    Dec 30, 2015
    3
    Note's a bit harsh since I played this in 2015, but even when it came out I remember playing it for the first time and not going very far due to the game's gross limitations in its design.

    Pros: -World is big -Hero is basically superman and allows for a lot of mindless shooting/fighting -Some interesting bases for the series were thrown here like the grappling hook(only works on    Note's a bit harsh since I played this in 2015, but even when it came out I remember playing it for the first time and not going very far due to the game's gross limitations in its design.

    Pros:
    -World is big
    -Hero is basically superman and allows for a lot of mindless shooting/fighting
    -Some interesting bases for the series were thrown here like the grappling hook(only works on cars) and the parachute

    That's it really.

    Cons:
    -Looks bad. I know it's old, but even for old, I just find the character models to be an early 2000 thing rather than a late one. Jungle looks alright, but towns all look alike, and some feel very much like chunks of town copypasted all over the map.
    -No memorable music
    -Very mediocre story, not the terrible kind, not the so bad it's good kind, just an uninteresting and boring basic story with no value. Same applies to the characters, although I found Rico to be somewhat cool.

    None of this is that bad though, because Just Cause as a series is all about the fun that the gameplay provides.

    And uuuuuugh.

    Controls in general aren't very satisfying. Shooting your guns is imprecise so you have to get a close-ish range for most fights. Moving around isn't exactly very fluid. Control in cars and vehicles is however ludicrous. It works, sure, but the entire physics engine is just the most basic thing in the game: if you hit a rock at 140km/h, you'll go to 0 in 0 seconds. You spin out of control very easily, controls are rough and unpleasant in general, with a lot of simplistic driving mechanics that force you to go through the same motions at every curve.
    Enemy AI certainly won't help, on cars it's ridiculously predictable and it brings zero fun to the game. On foot it shoots you decently enough.
    Parachute also sucks to control, so there's no fun in anything that's not you on foot.

    The game is usually about 3 things:
    -Driving around
    -Shooting people
    -Shooting people in a battle

    The diversity in the gameplay thanks to the grappling hook and stuff to destroy in later games simply doesn't exist here. All you have is a huge map with lots of copypasted villages and cities and some missions that are usually about shooting more stuff, and you go from settlement to settlement, mission to mission, driving with poor mechanics, then shooting some enemies, shooting them in a town, shooting them in a field, shooting them near a mansion...

    The problem really is with the going around IMHO, the shooting lacks diversity and hasn't got great control, but it certainly has some fun in it. The entirety of the game very quickly tires however, between the general ugliness, lack of diversity, very poor driving, and the crappy AIs that either don't provide much challenge or outright get in your way when they're supposed to help (kudos on these guerillero ass*oles when I'm trying to gun down a chopper with the machine gun on their trucks and they get on the wheel and drive us AWAY from my target without me being able to stop them!), and some other bugs and glitches, and the auto-aim with all armed vehicles, and the list goes on and on, all I can say is that the repetition and general poor design completely crush the novelties of this game, which were far more intelligently designed in its sequel.    … Expand
  15. Diegochocho
    Jul 5, 2018
    4
    ASQUEROSO JUEGO, jugandolo me dormía, y la jugabilidad te pone nervioso y la traducción para el CULO, todavía sigo pensando en la esquina de mi cama como es que me termine este juego.
  16. vova22379
    Aug 1, 2022
    0
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  17. BleedingJester
    Aug 15, 2023
    4
    this game has aged horribly gameplay wise, and the story is meh it's basically a generic 80s action movie turned into a game and while its usually a very easy game to the point that I felt incredibly overpowered with just the starting pistol the difficulty would randomly spike making me take at least an hour if not more to finish it usually by finding a workaround solution that the gamethis game has aged horribly gameplay wise, and the story is meh it's basically a generic 80s action movie turned into a game and while its usually a very easy game to the point that I felt incredibly overpowered with just the starting pistol the difficulty would randomly spike making me take at least an hour if not more to finish it usually by finding a workaround solution that the game definitely didn't intend such as traveling halfway across the map to a different area to get a helicopter and then flying it to the mission zone… Expand
  18. Le0nidas
    Sep 28, 2021
    4
    This game is fun only for first few hours, than its repetitive and not really technically great too. Not worth playing.
  19. aecsuter
    Aug 22, 2022
    3
    Just Cause is a game that has not aged well, my analysis is for who will play today and not taking into account the time.

    Pros: - Good variety of Vehicles and Weapons - It's nice to have special vehicles in each Base Cons: - Very bad physics. Motorcycles overturn cars, The jump is very ugly and strange, - Game mechanics are weird at times - Boring sidequests - Sidequests /    Just Cause is a game that has not aged well, my analysis is for who will play today and not taking into account the time.

    Pros:
    - Good variety of Vehicles and Weapons
    - It's nice to have special vehicles in each Base

    Cons:
    - Very bad physics. Motorcycles overturn cars, The jump is very ugly and strange,
    - Game mechanics are weird at times
    - Boring sidequests
    - Sidequests / taking islands is of no use to the game progress.
    - Ugly and disproportionate interior scenarios. (Large spaces with two or three soldiers)

    I had already played 2 a few years ago before revisiting the whole saga, but playing 1 these days was pretty bearable.
    I didn't have any motivation to collect all the items and conquer all the islands, and I tend to always try to close the games 100%.    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

77
#77 Best PC Game of 2006
29
#29 Most Discussed PC Game of 2006
13
#13 Most Shared PC Game of 2006

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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. Game Chronicles
    70
    You’ll have a fun time breaking the law to overthrow a government and not even know who you’re working for.
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  2. eToychest
    70
    It may not be the deepest kid in the class, but it sure does know how to have fun at recess.
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  3. Computer Games Magazine
    50
    Just Cause adds some crazy skydiving, car surfing, and a grappling hook that lets you parasail, but its storyline missions are kind of dull and predictable. [Jan. 2007, p.72]
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