Just Cause 3

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  1. Riskyreview
    Dec 1, 2015
    9
    This game is very you can do just about anything you want!

    There are some problems with this game for example the missions can vary from amazing to terrible and the story isn't anything new or interesting. Aside from the bad stuff this is absolutely amazing you get to play around with so much stuff it's insane, the physics are really good, the grappling hook adds a lot to the game,    This game is very you can do just about anything you want!

    There are some problems with this game for example the missions can vary from amazing to terrible and the story isn't anything new or interesting.

    Aside from the bad stuff this is absolutely amazing you get to play around with so much stuff it's insane, the physics are really good, the grappling hook adds a lot to the game, the wingsuit makes traversal fun, the graphics style is colorful and beautiful!

    This is a great toy box of a game but it lacks in story and it's very repetitive.    … Expand
  2. JRG
    Dec 1, 2015
    10
    Repetetive after a while, and it has some questionable progression unlocks. A little bit shallow too.

    But hell if I'm not having more fun than ever. Every day I come home and look at my PS4 game collection and think "these are all great games, but I'm feeling lazy as hell. I don't want to think, I want to RELAX." Enter JC3. Turn on the game, blow stuff up, cry laughing at the    Repetetive after a while, and it has some questionable progression unlocks. A little bit shallow too.

    But hell if I'm not having more fun than ever.

    Every day I come home and look at my PS4 game collection and think "these are all great games, but I'm feeling lazy as hell. I don't want to think, I want to RELAX."

    Enter JC3. Turn on the game, blow stuff up, cry laughing at the awesome freedom afforded to you.

    Thanks Avalanche. You know what you are good at and don't pretend to make this game something it isn't. It's good, stupid fun. And I've been waiting for this since JC2.    … Expand
  3. 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...
  4. DrZomboid
    Nov 25, 2016
    6
    Buggy and often boring game with stupid repetitive missions.
    Big and cool map.
    Nice destruction moments.
    Poor graphic, poor aiming and shooting.......
  5. Manjisan13
    Aug 6, 2017
    6
    Was ok, I had a better gameplay exp in just cause 2 than 3. everything feels the same. few things added, the rest is copy/paste.

    Main story is just not good enough, but aside that enough things to do and to blow up. A good sand box game but maybe it's time to come with something else.
  6. JyroJyro
    Dec 22, 2017
    7
    Without a compelling story or main character, Just Cause 3 relies on it's destructive gameplay rather too heavily to prop up the rest of the game. This is quite disappointing, given the initial glee I experienced at being able to destroy anything & everything with the innovative grappling tethers and wing-suit/parachute combo. If you want to feel like a pyromaniac god, this is the game toWithout a compelling story or main character, Just Cause 3 relies on it's destructive gameplay rather too heavily to prop up the rest of the game. This is quite disappointing, given the initial glee I experienced at being able to destroy anything & everything with the innovative grappling tethers and wing-suit/parachute combo. If you want to feel like a pyromaniac god, this is the game to play. Graphics are also great, although be prepared to sit through tediously long loading screens to witness this… Expand
  7. bull3
    Aug 12, 2016
    8
    Summary- The story is sub-par, main missions repetitive, and frame rate can dip into single digits. Despite this, Just Cause 3 is the most fun I've had in a game in a while. It is just pure fun. Liberations always feel rewarding when you find new ways to blow things up. The tether was the best feature of this game.

    Pros- -tether - explosions -wingsuit -grappling hook -Di    Summary- The story is sub-par, main missions repetitive, and frame rate can dip into single digits. Despite this, Just Cause 3 is the most fun I've had in a game in a while. It is just pure fun. Liberations always feel rewarding when you find new ways to blow things up. The tether was the best feature of this game.

    Pros-
    -tether
    - explosions
    -wingsuit
    -grappling hook
    -Di Ravello
    -Di Ravello tapes
    -Mario

    CONS
    - main story
    - repetitive missions
    - aiming
    - unrewarding collectible rewards
    - final mission(minus final moment)    … Expand
  8. 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
  9. Typical_cynic
    Oct 9, 2016
    7
    I had constant crashes while playing this on PS4 but it is still a fun game. It can become repetitive after a while but I think so are 99% of games that are out there.
  10. Fran0995
    Jan 29, 2017
    6
    Just Cause Series is the Bollywood of the GTA series.
    If you want to play this game is for the gameplay mechanics and the amount of destruction you create with a grapping hook and tons of weapons.
    Forget about the story, is pure **** so much **** will end skipping most of the cinematics and understand whats going on. If you are lucky to pick up the XL Edition for 30 bucks you will see    Just Cause Series is the Bollywood of the GTA series.
    If you want to play this game is for the gameplay mechanics and the amount of destruction you create with a grapping hook and tons of weapons.
    Forget about the story, is pure **** so much **** will end skipping most of the cinematics and understand whats going on.
    If you are lucky to pick up the XL Edition for 30 bucks you will see that is worth of your money for all the tons of fun you can have destroying things (usually with sessions of 2 hours you will end up exhausted and playing something else)

    Just Cause 3
    Score: 6
    Buying Price recommended: $15-20$ (standard version) 30$(XL version)

    Pros:
    +Tons of hours to play
    +Massive map (Usually i don't look this but MAAAN it's huge this map you can be like 5 minutes flying or driving in an f1 to get to a point of the map)
    +Destruction Everywhere

    Cons:
    -Boring, Predictable and Uninspiring story
    -Really nothing new with the mechanics
    -It's very repetitive    … Expand
  11. 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.
  12. RotcodFox
    Nov 1, 2018
    9
    I've sat and played this game for hours and hours, it is so incredibly addicting to play. Granted, the story is pretty uninteresting, and voice acting is.. meh.. but I love flying around and blowing stuff up. I love the cars, I love the jets, and I love the explosions. My favorite thing to do in the game is fly in the wing-suit. Play this if you're looking for a good time.
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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.
  16. Tubey
    Dec 4, 2015
    7
    It's good for what it is - a random playground where you blow stuff up. Better title for it would have been "Just Because 3", as the meat of the game is destruction and doing random things in a sandbox "just because".

    However, if you're looking for a game of substance, this isn't the one for you. The plot is almost pointless in how irrelevant it is - you're basically going to play this    It's good for what it is - a random playground where you blow stuff up. Better title for it would have been "Just Because 3", as the meat of the game is destruction and doing random things in a sandbox "just because".

    However, if you're looking for a game of substance, this isn't the one for you. The plot is almost pointless in how irrelevant it is - you're basically going to play this game to be a superhero madman, not to achieve any end goal.

    This title is as mindless as it gets - the AI is downright stupid, your character is a bullet sponge who can't die unless you really try and the open world itself never feels anything approaching real (more akin to Saints Row than GTA here) - but all that is a good thing if you're looking for a title you can pick up and play for an hour, wind down and have a blast with, because sending a deer flying off a cliff with a slingshot rope is bizarrely therapeutic!    … Expand
  17. Rundusol
    Dec 1, 2015
    6
    Right now as this game is on the PS4 - i cannot in good conscience give it more than a 6. And lets go into why ina moment.

    Good stuff first - the game is a blast, pun intended. If you're looking for a game with mindless destruction and unique innovative ways to cause mayhem then this is right up your alley. In this regard it ks endless fun and i have had a great time finding endless    Right now as this game is on the PS4 - i cannot in good conscience give it more than a 6. And lets go into why ina moment.

    Good stuff first - the game is a blast, pun intended. If you're looking for a game with mindless destruction and unique innovative ways to cause mayhem then this is right up your alley. In this regard it ks endless fun and i have had a great time finding endless ways to grapple enemies and things together in order to creste mayhem. Just brilliant.

    Tons of variety in vehicles, weapons etc... it feels just as good as the previous games in this regard. One annoyance is the lack of remapping keys or controls on the controller because it requires quite a steep learning curve. The story while largely throw away is funny at times as the characters almost know they're in a parody of sorts, some rather funny moments and dialog to be had.

    The game world is massive in scale, but as the old saying goes - size doesn't matter. It feels boring to be honest when all you have to do are random challenging, throw away missions and just blowing stuff up. Rpg this is not, so prepare yourself for that. I feel like it could have been smaller qnd mkre paded out.

    And onto why i cannot give it more than a 6 right now. Framerates and loading times. On ps4 thd frame rate constantly judders around and usually while doing not a whole lot, for examlle driving ALWAYS causes the framerate to drop, equally just swining the camera around does the same and intense exploding scenes causes it to falter further (hint:this is a lot because this is the game). This all causes massive lag in inputs which is very frustrating and jarring at times.

    Then theres the loading problems. I was doing an exploding vehicle challenge you find early on in the game, loaded it no issue and screwed it up so restarted it - i waited more than 4 minutes for this to reload, from a scene i was just in 30 seconds before. This is not isolated either, it has happened many tomes before and is simply poor.

    So. Taken without the issues this is an 8 for the sheer madness and fun factor. But right now, as it is i cannot give it anything more until /if the technical issues are resolved.    … Expand
  18. 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.
  19. 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
  20. Agarwel
    Dec 2, 2015
    6
    This may be a great game. But after they actually finish it. Action, destruction, physics are really fun. I would compare this game to the Saints Row 4. You are ovepowered hero in fun sandbox world. But... the game needs polishing. There are crazy loading, that takes minutes. (and sometimes all this loading will do is set a wehicle next to you and show a waypoints). I estimate that I spentThis may be a great game. But after they actually finish it. Action, destruction, physics are really fun. I would compare this game to the Saints Row 4. You are ovepowered hero in fun sandbox world. But... the game needs polishing. There are crazy loading, that takes minutes. (and sometimes all this loading will do is set a wehicle next to you and show a waypoints). I estimate that I spent almost half of the "play time" looking at loading screen. This has to be fixed. Then there are enemies. I wont mind their bad AI (it is sufficent for this type of a game). The problem is with their respawn, that are really annoying and non logical. You shoot the nemies, turn around and suddenly someone is shooting you in your back again. This is runing the gameplay ,because shootingenemies feels meaningless. And then are are lots of randoms small bugs (levitating npscs, etc). I can say, that when I way playing I have tremendous fun. The problem is, that the game did not let me play as much as I wanted and kept interupting with looooong looooadings. Once this is fixed, I will recomend this game. Until then I stopped playing.… Expand
  21. Slevin310
    Dec 7, 2015
    7
    I'm disappointed, I don't expect much about this game. It's supposed to be a bat **** crazy fun game and it was but the developers straight up lied. There is no customization on cars or weapons. It does not "feature 80+ cars" in the game. The map is not 400 square miles making it "The biggest map ever to be made for a game" and there is no multiplayer. All things promised and now they'reI'm disappointed, I don't expect much about this game. It's supposed to be a bat **** crazy fun game and it was but the developers straight up lied. There is no customization on cars or weapons. It does not "feature 80+ cars" in the game. The map is not 400 square miles making it "The biggest map ever to be made for a game" and there is no multiplayer. All things promised and now they're saying "we didn't have the resources to do all that" so I knew none of that was true but that doesn't make it okay to lie. If that wasn't possible why not just take what you have and improve on it? Improve the shooting mechanics and customization.

    It's still a fun bat **** insane game with a fun open world sandbox destruction orgy. But Saints Row 4 made a game where you could do insane awesome stuff but they fleshed it out with a big story mode, customization, tons of unlockables and they also made a better open world experience. Allowing you to play custom music while going around destroying things, having tons of little and big things to do in open world. So yeah this just doesn't compare to that.    … Expand
  22. Linkn216
    Dec 1, 2015
    8
    Repetitive mission design and lacks an engaging story, but who cares!!

    This is the perfect game to disable your higher brain function and just have a blast playing. Reminiscent of the last-gen titles Prototype 2 and Saints Row 4, just roaming the landscape causing havoc everywhere you please is a blast. The wingsuit is by far one of the best new gear additions and makes movement    Repetitive mission design and lacks an engaging story, but who cares!!

    This is the perfect game to disable your higher brain function and just have a blast playing. Reminiscent of the last-gen titles Prototype 2 and Saints Row 4, just roaming the landscape causing havoc everywhere you please is a blast. The wingsuit is by far one of the best new gear additions and makes movement throughout the game not a chore, but something to look forward to. A great getaway at the end of a long day.    … Expand
  23. bongorock
    Dec 7, 2015
    6
    Haters gonna hate I guess. But I'll be real with ya, if you liked Just Cause 2 it wasn't because of the awesome voice acting or story telling. It was probably because it was so horrible it was funny. Nothing has changed here, and to me that is a good thing. I don't always need a hollywood story with no substance like the order or Ryse.

    The over the top moves and ridiculous characters    Haters gonna hate I guess. But I'll be real with ya, if you liked Just Cause 2 it wasn't because of the awesome voice acting or story telling. It was probably because it was so horrible it was funny. Nothing has changed here, and to me that is a good thing. I don't always need a hollywood story with no substance like the order or Ryse.

    The over the top moves and ridiculous characters feel right at home with a hero that can basically fly at will. Anyone who wasn't into the last game won't be into this one either. If you are new to the series, just check out a few online videos before dropping your dough on it.

    It isn't perfect, but I have yet to encounter a bug on the ps4 version that crashed or had any effect on the game progression and the load times are no worse than fallout or any other game to be fair. And the way they give you a area to play as it installs was welcomed 100 times over. I was able to get used to the controls before ever starting the actual game. The graphics are not the best, but again neither was fallout 4... Battlefront looked amazing but it lacked anything that resembled the games that gave it the name.

    Reading some of the PC reviews had me worried. But I can honestly say this is one of the better games this year, for me anyway.

    *update* I have started to notice the drop in fps when the chaos starts to go big. At some points it has become very unstable almost freezing up. It nearly ruins the whole experience right now and if you have not picked up the game yet, I would wait for word that this gets fixed.

    I have updated the score accordingly.    … Expand
  24. gamer6969
    Dec 1, 2015
    9
    This is a very cool game. A bit repetitive, but what game isn't. Not much of a story, but this is a game all about action. Big open world and lots of stuff to blow up.

    A big negative is the BS attempts to connect to the internet, which plays 0 part in this single player game!!!! I hope they patch that so I don't have to wait 2-5 minutes every time the game decides it wants to try to    This is a very cool game. A bit repetitive, but what game isn't. Not much of a story, but this is a game all about action. Big open world and lots of stuff to blow up.

    A big negative is the BS attempts to connect to the internet, which plays 0 part in this single player game!!!! I hope they patch that so I don't have to wait 2-5 minutes every time the game decides it wants to try to connect. The loading times can be a bit long too. Still a fun mindless game.    … Expand
  25. robkaper
    Dec 1, 2015
    9
    While the story arc remains unimportant, everything else is an improvement over predecessor Just Cause 2. The new wing suit makes exploring the islands easier. The environments are again massive and even more beautiful than before. The fire leech has instantly become one of my favourite weapons in gaming history. Just Cause 3 might not exceed expectations, but then again it doesn't reallyWhile the story arc remains unimportant, everything else is an improvement over predecessor Just Cause 2. The new wing suit makes exploring the islands easier. The environments are again massive and even more beautiful than before. The fire leech has instantly become one of my favourite weapons in gaming history. Just Cause 3 might not exceed expectations, but then again it doesn't really have to as long as it delivers what it promised. And it does: endlessly blowing up everything in sight in various way still is fun, a lot of fun.… Expand
  26. thermalflight
    Dec 29, 2015
    9
    This is exactly what JC it's meant to be. The biggest sandbox ever.

    Who tells that is repetitive and have no good story, is like who say that checkers is a game without action. You really can't get bored because you can do anything, and everything is fun and challenging: you can drive like rally, fly like ace combat, kills like shooter, use parachute, use wingsuite, sail,    This is exactly what JC it's meant to be. The biggest sandbox ever.

    Who tells that is repetitive and have no good story, is like who say that checkers is a game without action.

    You really can't get bored because you can do anything, and everything is fun and challenging:

    you can drive like rally,
    fly like ace combat,
    kills like shooter,
    use parachute,
    use wingsuite,
    sail,
    simply explore large amount of places....

    the only thing you must do is "explore the possibilities", you can destroy huge enemy bases with a rope....

    yesterday I got revenge against a bad driver making it jump upsidedown two houses with ropes....

    what you need in this game is fantasy, because is a SAND BOX, not an adventure game or something... remember it, is not for everyone, sure is not for who like to be driven by railroads.

    Drive veichles is CHALLENGING, it's very fun to became a master in car driving or wingsuite flying.    … Expand
  27. gd01skorpius
    Feb 17, 2016
    7
    Overall: 4.5/10
    Personal Bias: +2 points
    Total: 6.5. Summary: Despite some serious flaws and pointless features, this game has just enough going right for it to be really fun. I hope to play a more polished Just Cause 4 in the future! Breakdown: Gameplay: 8/10. The grapple, parachute, wingsuit combination is INSANELY FUN, especially with upgrades. Add to that airplanes, fighter    Overall: 4.5/10
    Personal Bias: +2 points
    Total: 6.5.

    Summary: Despite some serious flaws and pointless features, this game has just enough going right for it to be really fun. I hope to play a more polished Just Cause 4 in the future!

    Breakdown:
    Gameplay: 8/10. The grapple, parachute, wingsuit combination is INSANELY FUN, especially with upgrades. Add to that airplanes, fighter jets, helicopters, boats, cars, and motorbikes, you have many options and travelling around the world is very enjoyable. This game has some sandbox elements that lend themselves to some hilarious moments, and makes for a good pass-the-controller game with friends. That said, the motorbikes have terrible handling, like not even fun. Also, there aren't as many options as in JC2, notably jetboats with guns on them. It also seems strange that there is no underwater locomotion beyond basic swimming, since underwater is beautiful. A submersible vehicle or diver propulsion vehicle would have been fun. The camera gets a little janky here and it's mostly well executed.

    Missions/Activities: 3/10. While there are a few progression missions, they mostly just boil down to annoying escort/protection missions. The open world encounters are mostly pointless and are often broken, in fact they are such a mess they should have been cut from the game. There are also "Daredevil jumps" which are terribly half-assed in their execution, no clear indication of what you need to do and a complete lack of failure/success states (I'm guessing their inclusion was forced by world artists and game design ran out of time to polish the experience). That said, the challenges (races, wingsuit runs, etc.) are really really fun, well though out, rewarding, and polished.

    Presentation: 8/10. This world is gorgeous and colorful and compliments the locomotion mechanics really well. The explosions are very cool, not the best I've seen but still prove rewarding. The character models aren't the best, but they suit the overall style and tone well enough. The music is really good, though also very repetitive. The dialogue quality is mostly fine, but there are moments where important dialogue gets lost in the mix. The sound effects are good though not spectacular. The UI is simple, clean, and easy to navigate.

    Metagame: 4/10. I really liked unlocking upgraded by completing challenges, it gives them a reason to be completed, and it helps that the challenges are fun. Clearing settlements, provinces, and regions is fun but very repetitive (which wasn't really bad for me personally, but may bore other players). Unlocking priests/churches as cooldown areas feels like a really pointless mechanic. It was strange that there are less main missions than there are provinces and the method of unlocking missions felt inconsistent. I wish missions were more dependent on clearing provinces since at the end of the game I still had settlements left to liberate, which seemed out of context from the story. The reward progression is fine, but there are some really good vehicles and weapons which are unlocked before less good ones. The thing that really bothers me is that there is no "New Game +" option (pretty standard these days) when completing the game, allowing you to start at the beginning with all your previous unlocks and upgrades intact. To be fair, you can "re-oppress" settlements, but you can only do this one at a time and are forced to fast travel each time, which involves a 30 second load. It's weird that there is not method to re-oppress bases in bulk because the current method is very time consuming.

    Narrative: 5/10. Mostly harmless. The main character, Rico, is less interesting than in previous versions. He used to be a bad-ass anti-hero, but now he's a more suave and macho nice guy. I always assumed he was Mexican, but it this game he's more of a generic European gentleman. He used to be more like Batman, now he feels like Superman. The supporting characters are fine, but the most interesting character is Dimah, the scientist who crafts all of Rico's gadgets. She's really the only character with an arc. Aside from Dimah's part, the overall story felt rushed and shallow, with an ending that felt abrupt. To be fair, there is more to the story which you can discover by collecting audiotapes, but it's also where the real meat of the story is in terms of what motivates Rico and the sole antagonist DiRavello.

    Online: 0/10. A complete broken mess. The game will often stall trying to connect to a server, even after you select offline mode. The online leaderboards do not work at all beyond people on your friends list, which is a shame because the challenges are so fun. It would have been better to cut online completely since it does more harm than good in the game. Also, this game screams for coop, but to be fair it isn't really something other open world games have figured out how to do well either.    … Expand
  28. Critical_Fun
    Jan 10, 2016
    6
    One of my favorite sandbox games of all time. That is the one big PRO I can list for this game. Destruction. Endless fire and destruction. Also, the grapple and parachute gives the player a great feel.

    Cons - Aiming weapons is terrible except with sniper rifle. WAY too many overpowered SAM sites make the awesome helicopters basically worthless. By the time you can hack them, you    One of my favorite sandbox games of all time. That is the one big PRO I can list for this game. Destruction. Endless fire and destruction. Also, the grapple and parachute gives the player a great feel.

    Cons - Aiming weapons is terrible except with sniper rifle. WAY too many overpowered SAM sites make the awesome helicopters basically worthless. By the time you can hack them, you don't need to have fun with the helicopter anymore. Don't bother destroying them. They will just respawn. Loading times for side events are ludicrous. You spend a few seconds in the event and wait 5 minutes to try again. Makes me not even want to play the game. The map seems much smaller than JC2. I haven't even played that much, maybe 3 missions in and I've cleared half the map. HATE HATE HATE the flare and beacon situation. It's unclear and irritating as hell. Finally, the gears you earn for upgrades aren't worth much. Almost no motivation to earn more of them because the upgrades suck. I really don't know what they were thinking with that. Solid 6 overall, but as a sandbox I'd give it a 9.    … Expand
  29. GuywiththeGames
    Jun 8, 2016
    6
    I know this game came out a while ago, but I do not care. I will tell people what I thing of this game.

    Pros: -The objectives to liberate town are more clear, and less difficult to find. -Movement is great, the wing suit helps a lot. -Lots of weapons unlocked from the beginning -More destructibility -Voice acting improved -Mods are cool, and give a lot of variety -graphics are    I know this game came out a while ago, but I do not care. I will tell people what I thing of this game.

    Pros:
    -The objectives to liberate town are more clear, and less difficult to find.
    -Movement is great, the wing suit helps a lot.
    -Lots of weapons unlocked from the beginning
    -More destructibility
    -Voice acting improved
    -Mods are cool, and give a lot of variety
    -graphics are nice
    -Weapons/Vehicle deliveries happen fast.

    Cons:
    -Frame rate is awful, and its been six months since the games release
    -Explosions bring the game down to about 18 frames per second, which happens 80% of the time
    -They release DLC before fixing the actual game
    -So many glitches
    -The way you get mods is either boring, or unfair.
    -When firing with your grappling hook, you get stuck behind the smallest of things, like a rail, and then fall to the ground, while getting shot.
    -When connecting to helicopters, your grappling hook either does not want to connect, or does connect then cancels out randomly.
    -Story has not evolved. Its not a focus, i get that. But, I wish they tried something different.
    -Only 25 missions, and too many of those are dedicated to a simple mechanic. THERE IS AN ENTIRE MISSION WHERE ALL YOU DO, IS WATCH A CUTSCENE, GET THE ABILITY TO FAST TRAVEL, AND THEN MISSION OVER.
    -Also some lame mission here and there.
    -No upgrade system
    -There is a timer on getting weapon and vehicle deliveries, even though in the old games there was an unlimited amount of times.

    Overall, don't buy the game at full price, don't try to complete it, or buy Just Cause 2 instead. It lacks some of the features, but is much better than this game. Just Cause 3 feels like a step back. There are a lot of restrictions, even though the game is all about freedom.    … Expand
  30. TalentlessHack
    Jan 7, 2016
    7
    Let's keep it simple here, Just Cause 3 is just a Just Cause 2...but on current gen systems.

    This is not necessarily a bad thing. Just Cause 2 was a game many people loved for the hours upon hours of chaotic fun it offered us. Heck, I wasted the enitre fall of 2012 trying to get the platinum trophy on that thing. So, Just Cause 3 is a game all about explosion, blowing things up,    Let's keep it simple here, Just Cause 3 is just a Just Cause 2...but on current gen systems.

    This is not necessarily a bad thing. Just Cause 2 was a game many people loved for the hours upon hours of chaotic fun it offered us. Heck, I wasted the enitre fall of 2012 trying to get the platinum trophy on that thing.

    So, Just Cause 3 is a game all about explosion, blowing things up, destroying a random dictatorship, while getting chaos points and money to unlock more items and missions. The "plot" is pretty much non-existent, but the game does offer us better dialogue and voice acting for the characters. While I still miss Antonio Banderas Rico from JC2, this Rico still delivers.

    The gameplay; Blow s**t up.... The game doesn't care how you do it, just blow s**t up. The gameplay does see some minor improvements over JC2. Vehicles across the board handle better. More tools are given to the players. E.g. Boost Rockets that blow up. More freedom in how to use the grappling hook. The freaking wingsuit.

    JC3's biggest problem is definitely the performance. The graphics look sublime. The world is huge and is full of color. But the framerate can get quite a few hits, sometimes with extended periods of 25 FPS. The loading times are also a pain. Before the patch the game would sometimes take a full minute to load. Even longer when playing the game for an extended period of time.

    The patch did fix some loading issues, but they are still too long.

    The mission structures and design also need some work. It's a mixed bag of fun missions and run-of-the-mill missions. I wished that Avalanche mostly improved on this aspect, given that it was one JC2's weaker aspects.

    Just like it's predecessor Just Cause 3 is a fun game, albeit with more technical issues that hamper the overall enjoyment.    … Expand
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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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