Just Cause 3

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  1. cedric93
    Aug 31, 2019
    0
    Both story wise and technical issues the game is garbage for consoles. I remember i pre ordered it back in dec 2015 but even after all these years it hasn't been fixed...
  2. dewdar
    Feb 25, 2018
    3
    Garbage. Absolute mess.

    Unnecessarily large landscape with repetitive missions with no identity. Take away the statues and posters of the forgettable dictator and all you got is a lifeless environment. Clumsy controls are frustrating and don't get me started with the vehicle handling and physics. The shooting feels like a game from ps2 era... seriously... how is this even fun... no    Garbage. Absolute mess.

    Unnecessarily large landscape with repetitive missions with no identity. Take away the statues and posters of the forgettable dictator and all you got is a lifeless environment. Clumsy controls are frustrating and don't get me started with the vehicle handling and physics. The shooting feels like a game from ps2 era... seriously... how is this even fun... no recoil... no proper aiming ability.... the sound effects are mediocre. I would have taken time to talk about the campaign if there was any.

    The fps never was a problem for me... until this travesty. Even with no action you will notice how badly the game engine handles its framerate. You can imagine what happens when the heaviest stuff is coming. If you thought that's bad... wait till you see the bugs in the game itself... It's as if the game is trying to be on big glitch itself. But before that wait until the game loads, make something to eat, exercise,read some newspaper.... or even better, find a better game to play.

    All the game has to show is the grappling hook and explosions. It can be fun... for like a few hours until you see that technical problems take more time than the "fun" part.

    I can see how this game can be entertaining for some people, but not for a long time. The only way I can recommend this game is as a rental if it's even possible today. And if you're planning to buy the game anyway, at least buy on PC if it's possible... it can't be in bad state as it is on PS4.    … Expand
  3. GenuineBruv2021
    Oct 29, 2018
    4
    Just Cause 3 is really bland and boring, the gun play is really awkward and unsatisfying. I played this game for about 4 hours and i haven't touched it since and i don't have any intentions to either.
  4. renao
    Dec 27, 2015
    0
    Jesus Christ, do not buy this game.

    Seriously. Some reviews will try to sell it to you saying "it is fun", but guess what? Fun ends after two or three hours of gameplay. After that it gets super repetitive and doesn't evolve that much from Just Cause 2. Like its predecessor, it has a huge, enormous map. However, every city and enemy base you need to conquer look alike. And there's not a    Jesus Christ, do not buy this game.

    Seriously. Some reviews will try to sell it to you saying "it is fun", but guess what? Fun ends after two or three hours of gameplay. After that it gets super repetitive and doesn't evolve that much from Just Cause 2. Like its predecessor, it has a huge, enormous map. However, every city and enemy base you need to conquer look alike. And there's not a lot to do in this giant map.

    Driving is terrible, really, really terrible and the game forces you to drive cars in most missions. Oh, and if you are expecting a minimap, forget it. I mean, what the WHAT??? How can't you have a minimap in a huge open world game??? It makes you open the map all the time to look for things. And with that comes the worst of the problems: Just Cause 3, a single player game, has an always online requirement.

    Yep, you read that right. Just Cause 3, a single player game for consoles has an always online requirement. So, if your connection as is lame mine, expect the game to stop and try to connect to the server every five minutes. It does offer you an option to play offline, but it will try to reconnect to the server everytime you pause the game. So have fun waiting.

    Graphics and animations are ok, but not mind blowing like MGS V:PP and they also have no attention to detail at all. For instance: when turning a car, Rico will move his arms, but the steering wheel won't move.

    Anyhow, don't fool yourself like I just did. Buy another game, get yourself some new clothes, take your boyfriend/girlfriend to dinner, but DO NOT buy Just Cause 3.    … Expand
  5. robinzvak
    Dec 26, 2015
    4
    Dear Avalanchce studios,
    i buy your game day one. Horrible mistake from my side. Technical size is bad yoke (FPS drops, lags, long loadings and more...) Story is bored. Ok we have huge world but gameplay is soo repetitive. Very BAD
  6. Matinski
    Dec 7, 2015
    2
    Broken game . Long (and I mean looooooong) load times. Horrible frame rate drops . Don't buy. This could have been as good as 2 but it isn't. Really expected more from Square Enix.
  7. TotalBloodMan
    Dec 2, 2017
    0
    This game should be called Just Unplayable. Optimization? Nope, huge FPS drops and repetative gameplay. What a shame. I do not understand how this game has positive ratings. Absolutely unforgiving.
  8. MisterChau
    Dec 10, 2015
    4
    Nice big open world and some pretty good fun to be had, but that is where is really ends. The story is a meh cliche' at best and voice acting is cringe worthy. They had a lot of great ideas, but it seems like they didn't work out well at all. The grappling system is wonky and hard to control most of the time, it really only works well in cities where you have lots to grapple, but most ofNice big open world and some pretty good fun to be had, but that is where is really ends. The story is a meh cliche' at best and voice acting is cringe worthy. They had a lot of great ideas, but it seems like they didn't work out well at all. The grappling system is wonky and hard to control most of the time, it really only works well in cities where you have lots to grapple, but most of the game so far has been open fields with little to grab. The parachute is near impossible to control while grappling and 95% a grapple while in wingsuit throws you right into the ground. Grappling vehicles to hijack is cool at first until you find out it only works half the time, the other half the time ends up you smashing into the vehicle and saying wtf to yourself. The weapon usage and aiming doesn't feel smooth at all, and the fire button switches while inside a vehicle, making me blow myself up with grenades constantly after a long ride in an attack vehicle. Additionally, with the vehicles, to say for the most part they handle like dog **** would be a terrible insult to dog **** There is what feels like a 1-2 second delay when turning a vehicle, so you are constanly over/understeering trying to "adapt" to the ****ty handling. There are fun aspects to the game outside of all the glaring problems, but the one hugely unacceptable thing about this game that totally **** it over are the ungodly load times. Holy **** the load times are baffling long on a next gen console. All in all I will say a decently fun game, but can't hold a candle to similar games like GTAV.… Expand
  9. Wiz1414
    Jan 5, 2016
    3
    I created an account just for this game. My god. Its fun, it gets repetitive fairly quickly but its fun to make things explode. Fun to put someone to something explosive with the grappling hook, fun to pull helicopters out of the sky. The dialogue is funny when you take over bases, and the the game looks beautiful. These are the good things about it, not much, its a game you can play whileI created an account just for this game. My god. Its fun, it gets repetitive fairly quickly but its fun to make things explode. Fun to put someone to something explosive with the grappling hook, fun to pull helicopters out of the sky. The dialogue is funny when you take over bases, and the the game looks beautiful. These are the good things about it, not much, its a game you can play while waiting for something better.

    The painful part is anything dealing with driving, and I mean anything. All the driving controls are unresponsive, to turn you have to stop, motorcycles do their own thing, you can do 90 degree turns with them and stop immediately because that's how turning works, right? This is the only game I have ever played where ATVs can't drive on dirt or sand, they slide everywhere. Flying has the same problem as driving, turning is near impossible to do without completely slowing down or having your plane sideways then its impossible to straighten without losing control. The only responsive thing about the driving is the gas, speeding up and driving straight is all you can do. Gliding also has a similar problem as driving, the turning, if you aren't trying to get some where in a hurry, its easier to just land and turn around. There are like 150 challenges in the game, none of which you will complete your first try due to the 'awesome' controls. So they are just a massive time sink if you want to 100% the game. If you want to spend 2 hours restarting the same challenge because you missed a target by an inch, or it requires you to turn, because if you were to miss the target ever so slightly, you should just restart. You won't finish on time or you won't have a high enough score. The easiest challenges are the shooting ones, its hard to mess up shooting, thankfully. Driving, flying and gliding challenges will take up most of your time trying to complete this game and its love of making you turn then losing control of whatever you are doing.

    Avalanche Studios should be force to 100% Just Cause 3 before ever releasing a fourth. Every single employee should be forced to complete the game if they worked on it. Primarily the challenges. The best thing I can think of is they hand you a bowl of water and tell you to eat it with a fork, that's what playing this game is like. My recommendation is just stick with taking over bases and doing the story and say screw the challenges, you can probably complete it in around 25 hours, 350 hours if you want to do all the challenges.    … Expand
  10. L1R1
    Dec 10, 2015
    0
    Millions spent making a game, yet they're too incompetent to swap the shoulder buttons with an option, allowing players to use L1 & R1 for shooting. (Something they did in Just Cause 2!)

    PS4's Accessibility option is worthless as this is an open world game, so driving would be L1/R1 as well. It's not a matter of adapting either, as shooting with the rear buttons is painful and    Millions spent making a game, yet they're too incompetent to swap the shoulder buttons with an option, allowing players to use L1 & R1 for shooting. (Something they did in Just Cause 2!)

    PS4's Accessibility option is worthless as this is an open world game, so driving would be L1/R1 as well. It's not a matter of adapting either, as shooting with the rear buttons is painful and uncomfortable for some players. We all don't have the same hands!

    So, it's unplayable unless one was to toggle Accessibility on and off every time they entered and exited a vehicle. Maybe they'll patch an option in, but I'm sure they're clueless about this issue, like so many gamers seem to be.    … Expand
  11. Overgreedsuck
    Dec 2, 2015
    0
    It would be beautiful if the game didn't have always online DRM, 10 hour long loading screens and a horrendus framerate.........................expectations crushed
  12. Sheldor13
    Jan 7, 2016
    2
    some of the worst vehicle controls i have ever seen in a game and very average game play, would not recommend paying full price for this game, only buy if it was on sale for very cheap
  13. Asdeni
    Jul 17, 2018
    0
    I registrated there just to press 0 for this mess.
    No story. Gameplay = piupiu boom BOOM.
    Unplayable
  14. MetalGearBunny
    Dec 3, 2015
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. just cause 1 i never played. just cause 2 was stinky penis and this well dont even ask about this one as i played the trailers for a few minutes i knew i was having a bad time in this world it felt like aids but without the D. i couldnt get any enjoyment out of this as it felt ike i was watching a movie and all i really had to do was press play 2/10 will not watch again might on xbox when the price goes down doe.… Expand
  15. Quink666
    Dec 4, 2015
    4
    I have never been so bored with a game 2 hours into it. Graphics are extremely grainy, controlls feels a bit wonky, Cant even aim down sights without the right MOD......

    Extremely repetitive. Even 10 hours into the game i find myself doing the exact same things over and over again. Im glad i got this game at 50% otherwise i would have felt really ripped off.
  16. Zlatan
    Jun 15, 2016
    0
    As of today's date with current latest patch the game is unplayable. The frame rate is appalling. You are warned!! Blowing up stuff is why I bought the game but frame rate drops so low that it takes the fun out even there. Compare it with bad characters and story and you got a **** game.
  17. oldmanfire
    Aug 8, 2016
    0
    4702MQ CPU GTX760 GPU 16Gb RAM and up to 70 pictures in Game. But many many cold shut downs in Game. Bad support and trubleshotings. i have no experinece about Gameplay because....... b.
  18. BogdanXdd
    Aug 25, 2016
    4
    It's awful! The driving mechanics are the worst i've ever seen,the plot is unexistent,the characters are very boring,it's a repetitive and poorly made game. I've spent between 40 and 50 hours playing this game; i tryed to see the good things and lie myself that i didn't spend my money on a bad game. If you want to buy this,don't do it!
  19. Brandon_Harris
    May 21, 2016
    1
    Just Cause 3 is a very glitchy game. But really, that was bound to happen due to the amount of things you can do in the game. You can really have fun destroying objects and watching the physics. As in its moniker, you can do it all “just cause”.

    There are many shortcomings. I was playing this game on the PS4, and it performs awfully. I’ve never seen an AAA title released that had so    Just Cause 3 is a very glitchy game. But really, that was bound to happen due to the amount of things you can do in the game. You can really have fun destroying objects and watching the physics. As in its moniker, you can do it all “just cause”.

    There are many shortcomings. I was playing this game on the PS4, and it performs awfully. I’ve never seen an AAA title released that had so many framerate drops. You want to have fun in this game, but as soon as you blow something up it turns into a PowerPoint presentation.

    The gameplay has very poor balancing and gets frustrating, rather than difficult. Many of its own main storyline missions are recycled. There are several missions where you’ll have to follow pipes in the ocean that leads to an underground base where you’ll have to destroy three generators.

    Most of the game’s main story missions comprise of “escort missions”, where you need to defend people. One of your friends is Mario, and if you search his name you’ll see one of the top results is “Mario keeps running into tanks and dying” due to how badly the AI was programmed. In that particular mission, when I respawned at a checkpoint, Mario did not regenerate his health. So, I had the choice of either using that checkpoint or restarting that mission completely by reverting to a backup save. Why not simply refill his full health at the checkpoint?

    This game has a strange health system. You regenerate health automatically after not taking bullets for a few seconds. When you take too many shots, the screen turns black and white (with only the enemies being coloured) to show you’re about to die and need to find cover. Why not have something where if you enter that state, the more enemies you kill the more health you recover? Your character will become a ragdoll whenever you’re near an explosion. It takes several seconds afterwards to resume control of your character. The problem is that you can get caught into chains where enemies will hit you with another explosion just after recovering, leading to not being able to do anything while your character is killed. You really can’t play this game too much at once, or it’ll get state quickly.

    The game has a gun/vehicle order feature. Basically, you have a menu where your character can get a gun shipment from anywhere, but it’s implemented very poorly. You need to use “beacons” you obtain from taking over government-controlled areas, but they’re tough to find and they’re not marked on the map. The game map consists of many islands, so you will need a aircraft or boat to explore them. This is very good news, you could simply have an aircraft delivered to you! Unfortunately, that’s not always the case, as beacons are tricky to find and sometimes you’ll have to spend half an hour taking down a government-controlled city or base just to get another beacon (that, or spend hours travel on boat to the nearest location you previously taken over).

    Speaking of transportation, the game has a fast travel feature for cities and bases you’ve taken over. This is very common practice for open-world games nowadays. Unfortunately, the fast travel system uses “flares”, which are strange to obtain like the beacons mentioned above! If you want to fast travel instead of spending hours flying over the sea to get to another island, you’re going to need to take over a base or city to compensate for the flare you just spent. It makes for a very frustrating system. I love the scenery and the graphics, but spending hours just flying over the ocean just to get from one island to another is unacceptable. I found myself reading the news on a laptop while doing so!

    There’s also no minimap! Yes, you read that correctly, no minimap present in an open-world game on the PS4, even though open-world games have been using minimaps since the days of the PS1. So instead of just checking a nice little map on your screen for objectives, you’re going to keep having to hit the menu button to view your map, back and forth, back and forth, again and again. I actually printed a big world map! Why would you make your customer do that? Apparently someone powerful on the development team stated that he didn’t want a minimap because it felt like too much of a game. If you use Google, you’ll actually see that many people who bought Just Cause 3 are asking how to activate the minimap. They assumed that there was a minimap and that it was automatically set off by default. They’re in for a disappointment.

    Many little improvements could’ve been made to make this game more fun. This is like Dead Rising 3, where poor decisions and silly technical issues led to a big series pretty much being ignored. The good news is that if you’re playing the PC version, you can probably find tweaks and people online who are making modifications to the game to address these issues. Unfortunately, I’m playing the PS4 version, so I’m stuck with all of these technical issues and bugs for life.    … Expand
  20. keepers_hammer
    Oct 16, 2016
    4
    To anyone considering buying this game DONT. It runs ok sometimes but usually like crap crashes a lot which over time corrupts your save game. Im at 99 pc complete and cant finish the last few challenges coz it wont save progress anymore and tech support is non existant they just dont care. Trust me and save yourself a big headache. Such a shame too coz i do like the game if it worked properly
  21. Shibanima
    Jan 20, 2022
    0
    Just Cause 2 was even better than this. This installment is a low budget cash grab and not worth anyone's time.
  22. bender1102
    Jul 13, 2020
    0
    This "game" is garbage! Miserable, worthless garbage. Horrible controls which you can't change, horrible vehicle physics (seriously, those morons responsible for this abomination have ever played a decent game before they started blindly smashing their keyboards in desperate attempts to code something???), glitched challenges and challenges themselves!!! Oh my god... Avalanche monkeys, I'mThis "game" is garbage! Miserable, worthless garbage. Horrible controls which you can't change, horrible vehicle physics (seriously, those morons responsible for this abomination have ever played a decent game before they started blindly smashing their keyboards in desperate attempts to code something???), glitched challenges and challenges themselves!!! Oh my god... Avalanche monkeys, I'm talking to you - yoг must pay people who had unfortunately played your "game". This is the worst thing I have ever wasted money on! Play some Saints Row and finally figure out what FUN is and how transport works in video games!!!… Expand
  23. Diogosilvasilva
    Nov 21, 2021
    0
    Péeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessimo
  24. SwarleyStinson
    Mar 15, 2017
    4
    This game has so many dumb problems right from the start. To liberate outposts you have to destroy objects. Not just any objects or lots of objects, SPECIFIC objects. So you have to FIND them. How? oh yeh the devs didn't think of that - THERE IS NO MINIMAP!!! Why??? You have to press the touchpad to open the full map all the time. That's bafflingly idiotic design choice #1.

    Bafflingly    This game has so many dumb problems right from the start. To liberate outposts you have to destroy objects. Not just any objects or lots of objects, SPECIFIC objects. So you have to FIND them. How? oh yeh the devs didn't think of that - THERE IS NO MINIMAP!!! Why??? You have to press the touchpad to open the full map all the time. That's bafflingly idiotic design choice #1.

    Bafflingly moronic design choice #2: To get upgrades you have to challenges throughout the world. Everything you destroy gives you chaos points which are constantly popping up on the screen. What does that do? Nothing! Why don't they just have an exp system to get upgrades using these chaos points? That would make too much dam sense apparently! Do the stupid challenges instead.

    Also the loading times are really long and the controls are quite annoying with too many actions mapped to the same buttons. There is no zoom/lock/sights button because every button is already used.

    The random open world tethering and blowing things up and the rocket packs ets are fun but trying to do anything else in the game is a waste of time. (It goes without saying that the story is pointless)    … Expand
  25. Debaucep
    Sep 1, 2017
    3
    This game is thirid part of great Just Cause franchise.
    Emmm ye, it used to be great before the release.
    1 Plot is very basic 2 Graphics is good enough 3 Performance - here is the big problem. I do not know how the game was even released...There are huge drops up to 10-12 FPS. Sometimes it is really hard to play. Please do not buy the game - it is totally waste you time &    This game is thirid part of great Just Cause franchise.
    Emmm ye, it used to be great before the release.

    1 Plot is very basic

    2 Graphics is good enough

    3 Performance - here is the big problem. I do not know how the game was even released...There are huge drops up to 10-12 FPS. Sometimes it is really hard to play.

    Please do not buy the game - it is totally waste you time & experience.

    Cheers,
    D    … Expand
  26. Multitude
    Nov 17, 2016
    4
    A Chance wasted! - But you should still buy it!!!!
    I would love to give this game a better Review, but i can't. This game simply has too many problems:
    - framerate drops and overall bad framerate - sound problems: it's often hard to understand what the actors are saying - Story is too simple and makes no sense - Characters are very shallow and not introduced well enough - Repetitve    A Chance wasted! - But you should still buy it!!!!
    I would love to give this game a better Review, but i can't. This game simply has too many problems:
    - framerate drops and overall bad framerate
    - sound problems: it's often hard to understand what the actors are saying
    - Story is too simple and makes no sense
    - Characters are very shallow and not introduced well enough
    - Repetitve gameplay: you free one base after another, after another, after another
    - Cars, planes and helicopters are useless, because you are totally overpowered an can fly
    - controls are lagging, specially when driving
    - car physics are bad
    - vehicle control is very simplistic and arcade (even for an arcade game).
    - game wants to connect and reconnect to the servers over and over again (even though this is a singleplayer game)
    - long load times - even when you are playing one of the challanges. which makes improving your scores a chore
    - the game feels disconnected and like a theme park. they tried to make the world feel alive, but it didn't work. Mainly because you are always flying around and spend very little time on the ground
    - This is a poor mans Far Cry 4

    But like is said: YOU SHOULD STILL BUY IT. you will have fun. It's like fast food: the food is crap but you stuff your face with it anyways.    … Expand
  27. Nightlistic
    Mar 6, 2016
    3
    Just Cause 3 is a okay game if you are interested in repetitive game play. The control are incredible difficult to master if you aren't familiar with the franchise, and much like the Dark Knight series you are going to replay the timed events over and over and over because of the game controls. The new grapple is confusing as the games controls say to hit L1 but doesn't tell you that youJust Cause 3 is a okay game if you are interested in repetitive game play. The control are incredible difficult to master if you aren't familiar with the franchise, and much like the Dark Knight series you are going to replay the timed events over and over and over because of the game controls. The new grapple is confusing as the games controls say to hit L1 but doesn't tell you that you need to actually tap L1 quickly or you are going to just launch tethers out over and over. The Wing gliding is insanely difficult to even master the basic mechanics of it without face planting to your death a hundred times over, and the vehicles you use during races have such sensitive suspension hitting a small rock can send you air born. Don't expect a deep, and fulling story either as the game's main focus is just destroying things. Ultimately this could've been a much more user friendly game if there were a dozen different controller schemes you need to remember for every type of vehicle used in the game in addition to your new grapple, wing glider and using the parachute. So its a decent game with overly complicated controls.… Expand
  28. KayVen17
    Dec 29, 2016
    4
    Deutsche Review - Kritik

    Der folgende Test ist in 5 Kategorien zusammengefasst. Diese 5 Kartegorien ergeben die Gesamtpunktzahl von 0 - 100 Punkten. Um einen passenden Userscore zu geben wird auf oder abgerundet. Bei 84 Punkten ergibt das einen User Score von 8. Bei 86 einen von Userscore von 9. Falls eine 85 kommt entscheide ich ob ich es eher positiv oder negativ nehme. Regeln    Deutsche Review - Kritik

    Der folgende Test ist in 5 Kategorien zusammengefasst. Diese 5 Kartegorien ergeben die Gesamtpunktzahl von 0 - 100 Punkten. Um einen passenden Userscore zu geben wird auf oder abgerundet. Bei 84 Punkten ergibt das einen User Score von 8. Bei 86 einen von Userscore von 9. Falls eine 85 kommt entscheide ich ob ich es eher positiv oder negativ nehme. Regeln verstanden?
    Dann sind hier meine Punkte.

    Mein persönlicher Score = 40/100
    Mein User Score = 4/100

    Lohnenswert? = Naja.
    Fortsetzung erwünscht? = Schon. Aber mit ein bisschen mehr Abwechslung etc.    … Expand
  29. Zmetekk
    Mar 29, 2018
    1
    Well it would be a great fun. There is lots of stuff to do or just blow with C4. You can hook goat to a rocket a send her to show Laika how it is done. Even B-C movie plot, that is not so stupid you must love it, just stupid is ok with this kind of game.

    BUT releasing game that runs even after few years with unstable 20-30fps, in case of big bum even lower, that is just unacceptable.    Well it would be a great fun. There is lots of stuff to do or just blow with C4. You can hook goat to a rocket a send her to show Laika how it is done. Even B-C movie plot, that is not so stupid you must love it, just stupid is ok with this kind of game.

    BUT releasing game that runs even after few years with unstable 20-30fps, in case of big bum even lower, that is just unacceptable. You cant, or should not make game that is unable to run at any type of gaming device and be cool since on others it runs smooth...really not professional. Otherwise it is decent 7, the few minutes when it actually did not lag was entertaining.    … Expand
  30. CoreGamer1408
    Apr 9, 2020
    4
    Optimization is not that good with noticeable frame rate dips, but that is not what killed the game. This is major problem when the industry/creators only gives you one auto save. Played two hours and quit then reloaded and the save was corrupted with all progress lost. For what I saw looks and plays near enough the same as any other Just Cause. As in stupid and dumb open world shooty,Optimization is not that good with noticeable frame rate dips, but that is not what killed the game. This is major problem when the industry/creators only gives you one auto save. Played two hours and quit then reloaded and the save was corrupted with all progress lost. For what I saw looks and plays near enough the same as any other Just Cause. As in stupid and dumb open world shooty, shooty, bang, bang fun. PANDEMIC RETRY: Still runs like crap in intense battles and still crashes in intense battles.… Expand
  31. MannWithNoEyes
    Oct 25, 2017
    4
    Just Cause 3 is a very frustrating experience, in the sense that I should like it much more than I do. My biggest gripes with open-world games are their focus on story at the cost of gameplay. A very nice example of this is the Witcher 3's story, which, because it is so emotionally driven, requires constant attention. If the player decides they want to explore the world more or put moreJust Cause 3 is a very frustrating experience, in the sense that I should like it much more than I do. My biggest gripes with open-world games are their focus on story at the cost of gameplay. A very nice example of this is the Witcher 3's story, which, because it is so emotionally driven, requires constant attention. If the player decides they want to explore the world more or put more focus on the side content of the game instead of following the main quest for the majority of their playtime, the pacing of the story is broken and the magic is ruined. No matter how good that side content is, the story and main quest is ruined because the sense of emergency and realism is ruined. On the other hand, if they player decides to follow the story and ignore most of the side content, they will be unprepared for the more difficult moments of the story, and as a result their experience will contain a lot of harsh difficulty spikes. Furthermore, their experience will be a very limited one, as they are only following this one path in a sea of branching paths. In my opinion, the best open-world games purposefully create an environment where anything the player does feels like the right thing to be doing. Everything feeds into the experience instead of being their own separate entities. That is why, despite the universal criticism of it, I desperately wanted to like Just Cause 3, and in some ways I do. I like the amount of freedom the player is given from the very beginning of the game despite the fact that not everything is unlocked, which gave me the impression that this game was confident in its world for entertainment, and that gave me hope that the game would use its environment and its world to always keep things fresh. I like the movement mechanics, because the variety of ways to traverse the world allowed familiar areas to feel fresh. The movement on the ground, by contrast, feels restrictive and stiff by comparison. For example, it's weird that the game doesn't allow Rico to scope. I get that it was going for the 'arcade-style shooter vibe, but then why do the guns all have limited ammo? If their ammo was infinite, but the reload times were made more extensive, I may have overlooked this, but to me this minor flaw is a little jarring. The explosion effects are obviously pretty, if only because they're so over the top. The loading screens start acceptably, as they never break the flow to an unforgivable extent and mostly stay below forty-five seconds each, however they seem to increase in time throughout the game, and by the end go for a minute and a half. Another persistent flaw is how unpolished the game feels. In thirty hours, this game crashed about seven times, each of which signaled the end of a play session for me, which brings me to the most egregious part of the game: it cannot keep my attention. Despite the fun superhero-esque movement controls and expanse of beautiful fields, everything in this game is exactly what has already been seen. The environments are very bare in terms of variation, ninety percent of the environments are fields and snowy mountains. Sometimes the layout of the environment changes, which can really keep the game fresh, but that is all the game does to demonstrate its varied locals. Compare this to Horizon: Zero Dawn or Breath of the Wild. In both of these games there were a variety of environments, each with their own effects, enemies, and hazards. In Just Cause 3, there's no purpose in exploring because all there is to find is enemy camps and more fields. Despite the initial promise of an open-world game with focus on the world itself, exploring gets dull very fast. There's nothing to find and nothing but repetitive missions to do. This would be excusable if the main story was fun to follow, but almost every single mission ends up using the same mechanics, and instead of using the wingsuit, most of the missions use either the mediocre driving controls, or the simplistic shooting mechanics. Despite the fun that can be had through grappling up mountains or soaring through the skies, Just Cause 3 tries to place its focus on a world without variety, and as a result the whole game lacks variety as well, so I'm going to give Just Cause 3 a 4 out of 10.… Expand
  32. ElKoala
    Oct 7, 2017
    4
    les invito a comprarse just cause 2, porque este no lo vale. lo obtuve gratis y solo por eso puedo entregar una critica, sino dudo que lo hubiese comprado solo con ver gameplays... pero si quires comprar este juego, te recomiendo primero buscar en youtube explosiones belicas, porque seguramente será lo mismo que el propio juego.
    un juego pasajero y nada mas alla de eso. te divierte...    les invito a comprarse just cause 2, porque este no lo vale. lo obtuve gratis y solo por eso puedo entregar una critica, sino dudo que lo hubiese comprado solo con ver gameplays... pero si quires comprar este juego, te recomiendo primero buscar en youtube explosiones belicas, porque seguramente será lo mismo que el propio juego.
    un juego pasajero y nada mas alla de eso. te divierte... digamos una hora a lo mucho, si no lo obtienes gratis, la verdad no recomiendo gastar dinero en esto.    … Expand
  33. Tino2010
    Jul 26, 2022
    4
    One of the worst games i have ever played so far i thought it was going to be and awesome game but i was wrong
  34. Chempion1
    Mar 8, 2023
    2
    Начал знакомство с серией с Just Cause 2 на PC. Начитался отзывов на первую часть и решил попробовать. Скажу честно от изрыгания рвотных масс меня спас пустой желудок? На столько корявого геймплея я не видел. Управление наверно делали не для рук, а для ног.
    Картинка, ну я скажу на PS2 графон был лучше. Короче полное говно!
    Вот вышла третья часть, и ........ я решил дать игре второй шанс    Начал знакомство с серией с Just Cause 2 на PC. Начитался отзывов на первую часть и решил попробовать. Скажу честно от изрыгания рвотных масс меня спас пустой желудок? На столько корявого геймплея я не видел. Управление наверно делали не для рук, а для ног.
    Картинка, ну я скажу на PS2 графон был лучше. Короче полное говно!
    Вот вышла третья часть, и ........ я решил дать игре второй шанс на PS4. Купил её за 500 рублей. Не разорюсь.
    Ну, что я скажу?
    Графон подтянули до уровня PS3 2006 года. При этом игра умудряется тормозить. Падение фпс доходит до 10 кадров/с, что делает весьма раздражающим прохождение, в котором все летит и взрывается! Притом при всём, игра устанавливается часов 10 не меньше! Сама игра и обновление ставится часа 2, после чего игру можно запустить, но. Побегать ты можешь только по тестовой площадке без врагов. Загрузка продолжается уже внутри самой игры, часов 7-8. И только после этого можно играть в сюжет.
    Управление немножко улучшили, хотя бы можно стало куда-либо попасть крюком или из оружия.
    Всё остальное осталось без изменений.
    Сюжет......его нет. Летай, ломай, убивай, в общем, делай жизнь простых людей невыносимой. В конце позволят убить мужука в фуражке! Кульминация вау!
    Признаюсь я проходил игру в течение 18!!! месяцев!
    Потому, что поиграв в неё 2 часа хочется разбить геймпадом телевизор или себе лоб. Проще удалить. Проходит месяц, два, Doom, Prey, думаешь ну чем ещё время убить и вспоминаешь Just Cause 3. Через 2 часа, её удаляешь!
    Ещё хочу сказать одну вещь. Хотел бы лично поглядеть, как создатели игры проходят, весело и бодро, миссии на истребителях! Может у них по 8 пальцев на руках? Истребитель на геймпаде это мука. Зачем то разрабы иногда насильно заставляют тебя летать на самолёте. Наверное, считают это крутой фишкой!
    Что самое интересное со всех сторон игра крайне бюджетная, но все три части которые я видел полностью озвучены по-русски на всех платформах. Я всегда за полную локализацию, но. Эта игра ничего бы не потеряла с одними субтитрами, диалоги убоги и ничего ценного в себе не несут. Ведь есть так много великолепных игр нуждающихся в полной локализации. Мало того куча первоклассных игр не имеет даже субтитров! Вот бы усердие локализаторов Just Cause направить в нужное русло!:)
    Хочу сказать честно игра шлак. Даже на проходняк не тянет. Проходняк проходится быстро и забывается. Это же выворот пальцев и мозгов, забыть долго не получится как ночной кошмар!    … Expand
  35. TorNH
    Apr 12, 2020
    3
    The start of the game was good,but it became boring after the first 1/2 missions ,except the boss at the end of the game. The game has no ending, and it makes me questioning what happened to Rico and Marios lives after Medici was liberated. That is for me unsatisfying
  36. Bernard_18
    Oct 18, 2020
    3
    I don't know what else makes this game horrible. If it's gameplay, if it's excessive exaggeration, if it's excessive unrealism, etc. But, if I could choose something that makes the experience unbearable, I would choose the excessive drop in fps and the horrible thing is that you try to drive a vehicle. It is worth mentioning that I didn't even make 10% progress in the game and I'm already bored.
  37. Lugo_xcv
    Jul 26, 2023
    0
    No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No, This is my answer, do I want to play this game again at least once

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#26 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2015
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#12 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2015

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73

Mixed or average reviews - based on 42 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 42
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 42
  3. Negative: 1 out of 42
  1. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Jan 23, 2016
    60
    For all its booms and bangs, Just Cause 3 is never quite the unrestrained fun-maker it threatens to be. Whenever Rodriguez dons his wingsuit, however, it positively soars. [Jan 2016, p.88]
  2. Play UK
    Jan 16, 2016
    70
    Frustrating technical issues are never far away. [Issue#265, p.78]
  3. Brash Games
    Jan 16, 2016
    80
    Just Cause 3 is one of the most satisfying experiences of 2015.
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