Just Cause 3

 Xbox One
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  1. Munthelion
    Jan 21, 2016
    7
    Just Cause 3 is a tough game to review.

    At its core, it’s a formula for fun, and fun is exactly what I had playing it. Just Cause 3 puts you once again in the drivers seat of Spiderman… I mean Rico Rodriguez, the handsome, grizzled facial haired superhuman that is capable of absorbing more bullets than an M1 Abrams and who is in possession of more parachutes than the entire 101st    Just Cause 3 is a tough game to review.

    At its core, it’s a formula for fun, and fun is exactly what I had playing it.

    Just Cause 3 puts you once again in the drivers seat of Spiderman… I mean Rico Rodriguez, the handsome, grizzled facial haired superhuman that is capable of absorbing more bullets than an M1 Abrams and who is in possession of more parachutes than the entire 101st Airborne Division.

    The story is bland and uninteresting and I couldn’t bring myself to care about any of the characters who were boring and one dimensional cardboard cutouts… and the Story missions are the ultimate downfall of this game but we’ll come to that in a minute.

    Ultimately the games strengths lie in its fun core mechanics, grapple hooking, parachuting and the now wing suiting around is a real pleasure, especially when you unlock some of the “Mods” for the game, a fantastic innovation that involves you completing various challenges across the map to enhance your various abilities such as grapple, wing suiting, weapons, explosives etc.

    These mods do various things such as provide speeds boosts, strengthen your grapple hook so you can pull down some of the larger structures you’re required to destroy in order to liberate towns and bases, or even more hilarious enhancements such as jet packs on your explosives so they will send whatever object you’ve attached it to in a direction until they explode but what makes them so great is that you don’t HAVE to use any of them if you don’t want and they can be turned on and off at random.

    The best aspects of the game is the liberation aspect, it involves you liberating towns and bases all across the fictional nation of “Medici” from the evil dictator General Sebastiano Di Ravello who is actually the strongest character in the game, these range from small outposts and hamlets, to relatively sprawling cities and massive military complexes… a nice touch is after each settlement is liberated the radio will play announcing the victory, with towns and cities it’s the “liberation radio” but with military bases there’s hilarious announcements by the government radio trying to cover up your victory.

    But the worst aspect is ironically the story itself, almost every single mission in this game is an escort quest… why?

    That’s my only question… early in the game I started to notice this problem was really pronounced and I’m not putting this down necessarily to difficulty but as an example, I first noticed how ridiculous this was when I was forced to protect cardboard cutout character A7, who gets in a pickup truck and tries to drive across the country to get to a helicopter that will take him to safety, I was forced to try to protect him from what I can only describe as the 2nd Mechanized division, at one intersection the pickup truck was intercepted by two helicopters, 3 Humvees and a tank… eventually after picking up some MODS I was able to use my tethers to bring everything down but that was only the beginning.

    I got about halfway through the story, riding this crap wave of escort quests until I finally gave up when I was once again forced to protect cardboard cutout idiot A7 and an EMP device or something in a seaside cove… From now what I would describe as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th armies of the entire country.

    It was no problem up until the 7th Fleet arrived and I had to parachute across the bay to deal with them… Once that was over I couldn’t get back in time to save cardboard cutout A7 who was hit with 2 helicopters and 3 tanks with rotating invincibility shields that blew cardboard cutout A7 to smithereens and sending me very far back in the mission.

    Nope, sorry Square Enix this is not 1997 and escort quests of this nature are quite frankly **** and you can shove them up your arse, thanks for the fun everywhere except the story though,

    GGKBYETHXLOLZ.    … Expand
  2. Phangled5
    Dec 10, 2015
    10
    Ive had xbox one since it came out and have wasted £100s on games, believing in hype, and because my friends wanted them etc.

    Out of all those games there is only 3 i genuinely like. Forza games, diablo 3 and now Just Cause 3. Those are games i bought "for me." And i know it is cliche but the reason I like it and give in a ten is bacause it is pure, mindless, relaxing Fun. For me    Ive had xbox one since it came out and have wasted £100s on games, believing in hype, and because my friends wanted them etc.

    Out of all those games there is only 3 i genuinely like. Forza games, diablo 3 and now Just Cause 3. Those are games i bought "for me."

    And i know it is cliche but the reason I like it and give in a ten is bacause it is pure, mindless, relaxing Fun. For me that is what a video game is about.

    The islands are huge and beautiful. The grapel/ parachute/wingsuit combo never gets old. You have to attack installations and liberate areas, and you can do this from land and air. The explosions and destruction look delicious. The protagonist reminds me of archer for some reason. Also the story is cheesy and funny, but by design. You can tell they deliberately made it this way. You see just cause fans understand this. They get it. Other gamers will out this down because of bad story but i laugh at them inside because they have totally misunderstood that the developers have intended the game to be stupid.

    Graphics: quite honestly, not the best, quite a few jaggies and pop in. Mad max looked better. This is not a huge issue for me personally. And the land and colors are vibrant.

    Sound and music, i feel are both great.

    The only issue is the loading screens just seem to pop up and take you out of the action. They have not been too long for me though.

    Thats it so far i have along way to go and i hope things remain as good as they are right now. This is a game to chill out and play at your leisure.    … Expand
  3. thebankshooter
    May 29, 2016
    4
    The WORST just cause of all, you can't run, you can't roll, there is no minimap, you can't upgrade your weapons, a very very short and unimportant campaing, the game was designed to be fast but the gameplay not, the long-press functions are annoying, fps falls to 15 o even worst, there is not much cities, there is no bossfights, the servers are all time disconnecting, i made it all in lessThe WORST just cause of all, you can't run, you can't roll, there is no minimap, you can't upgrade your weapons, a very very short and unimportant campaing, the game was designed to be fast but the gameplay not, the long-press functions are annoying, fps falls to 15 o even worst, there is not much cities, there is no bossfights, the servers are all time disconnecting, i made it all in less than 10 hours with a 50% of the collectables and any challenge (i don't know if there was 10 hours because the game doesn't include player stats) there is nothing exciting, just pushing the trigger and blowing up something, the new physics are stupid, before you were like a spiderman and superman with a bit of iron man now you are like a flying squirrel with some features of spiderman, there is something good that i must say, avalanche knew that collect the armor pieces was so boring and they took out that, now you can repeat your assaults, you can destroy the bridges all times you want, but there is nothing interesting in this new game, i want to say that i loved just cause 2, even I play that game (99.71%) and there was 5 years waiting for a better game than the previous unbeatable, but this time avalanche has disappointed me. If you want my advise, don't buy this game, if you wanna play, you better rent it... there is 45 just gb of trash… Expand
  4. HeeresJ0hnny
    Mar 23, 2016
    1
    This game is offensively bad. I'm a bit late to the show on this game, and ordinarily I wouldn't waste my time writing about a game that's been out for months, but I feel like I've been so cheated by this game, I have to say something. I got it for $30 and I feel like I've been ripped off. The game is terrible. After 4 hours, I've reached my end of this game. Performance wise, it's theThis game is offensively bad. I'm a bit late to the show on this game, and ordinarily I wouldn't waste my time writing about a game that's been out for months, but I feel like I've been so cheated by this game, I have to say something. I got it for $30 and I feel like I've been ripped off. The game is terrible. After 4 hours, I've reached my end of this game. Performance wise, it's the worst game I've ever seen. It struggles to get to 30 fps. When standing still with nothing around the stupid, boring character the game tells you basically nothing about, it hits 30 FPS, yeah. As soon as enemies show up, the frame rate tanks down to about 20. In "intense" action scenes, it seriously goes down to about 10 FPS. It feels like I'm playing "Power Point: The Game." It would almost be excusable if the game looked like an Angel's **** but it doesn't. It looks like it belongs on the 360. How can Dice make Battlefront, a game that looks as good as any game ever has, run at a crispy smooth 60 FPS with MORE stuff happening on the screen, or how can Rockstar make GTA 5 look 50 times better than this game while having it run 6000 times better on a bigger map, while this company can't make this crap run at even 30 even though it looks like the best game from 10 years ago. The story should be interesting, but they don't even introduce you to the characters. If you haven't played the pervious games, you just don't give a crap about anyone. The best thing about the game is flying around the island, jumping off high points and comboing parachuting and wing-suiting to trying literally miles is incredibly entertaining. But if you want good movement, just play the freaking Arkham games. The "combat" feels like it was lifted directly out of Saints Row 1. Enemies stand there, you shoot unsatisfying, bland guns at them, they fall over. The game is just pathetic. I would rather do my laundry than play this game. It is so bad, it's offensive. I could forgive the poor performance if the story was interesting and the combat was fun, but those things just aren't true. Worst $30 I have ever spent on anything. I'd rather pay $60 to slide down a 50 foot razor blade into a forest of cacti which resides in the middle of a lake of rubbing alcohol.… Expand
  5. DarkWolf1991
    Dec 28, 2015
    7
    If you're looking for a game that has fast, action-packed game and plenty of side activities then Just Cause 3 is the perfect game for you but if you're looking for a game that has a compelling story-line, interesting characters then Just Cause 3 is not the perfect game for you since that's what the story missions lack.

    One of my major gripes with the game is that the frame-rate (On    If you're looking for a game that has fast, action-packed game and plenty of side activities then Just Cause 3 is the perfect game for you but if you're looking for a game that has a compelling story-line, interesting characters then Just Cause 3 is not the perfect game for you since that's what the story missions lack.

    One of my major gripes with the game is that the frame-rate (On Xbox One) is absolutely POOR! When there is a lot of action, explosions going then the game's frame rate just takes a massive nose dive which sometimes makes the game unplayable and can actually ruin the experience. It should also be noted that the load times can be quite lengthy as well! I can't help but think Avalanche/Sqaure Enix should have pushed this game a few months back to polish the game up and add final tweaks.

    For a time being, I'd wait for the game to come down at a cheaper price and see if the developers of the game has addressed the issues with frame-rate and loading times.    … Expand
  6. ItsBlueRockTHIN
    Jul 26, 2016
    7
    Overall this game performs well but runs dry after a while of playing it. It lacks a storyline of different gameplay.
    All you do is go to a base, kill some people and blow everything up, and that is fun to do but thats all the game is. As its main part of the game, destruction does not take place as much as it is retailed for in my opinion, there are gasoline tanks, vehicles, statues,    Overall this game performs well but runs dry after a while of playing it. It lacks a storyline of different gameplay.
    All you do is go to a base, kill some people and blow everything up, and that is fun to do but thats all the game is. As its main part of the game, destruction does not take place as much as it is retailed for in my opinion, there are gasoline tanks, vehicles, statues, walls of bases, and a few bridges that are destructible, the rest is not, again it lacks content.
    I would like this game so much more if it had a multiplayer, as one of gamers favorite things to do is blow sh*t up with friends.
    The graphics hold up to be quite well and though the loading screens are quite long, it is not a major killer for the game.
    Graphics 8.5/10
    Gameplay 6/10
    Price 8/10
    Plot 6.5/10
    Total 7.25/10    … Expand
  7. lemonademaz
    Dec 8, 2015
    6
    The game itself is fun, the story is horrible. That's the usual stuff with Just Cause by now.
    But the performance und XBO is horrible, as soon as something explodes you get 20 frames or even less.

    Do not buy before they patch it!
  8. technorden
    Dec 17, 2015
    1
    I was really looking forward to this game but in my opinion it failed on pretty much every aspect of the game.
    But I can't continue this review without mentioning the elephant in the room, the FPS drops are really as bad as everyone say they are, I got the game yesterday and returned it today because the fps drops are so bad that they alone ruin the game experience.
    However this is not    I was really looking forward to this game but in my opinion it failed on pretty much every aspect of the game.
    But I can't continue this review without mentioning the elephant in the room, the FPS drops are really as bad as everyone say they are, I got the game yesterday and returned it today because the fps drops are so bad that they alone ruin the game experience.

    However this is not the only problem, the car handling is the worst I have yet to witness in a video game and combined with the fps drops, well let's just say it doesn't help...

    The game-play and story becomes very one-sided and after a few hours I had have enough of this so called game.

    It suprises me how they didn't notice the fps problem before the game got released, I got the game for 40$ and I STILL returned it and that should give you an idea of how bad this game is, i wouldn't recommend you to get it for anything above 20$, yes i know that's 1/3 of the original price but you're also getting a game that the developers seem to only have given 1/3 of their time.    … Expand
  9. SirInternet
    Dec 30, 2015
    8
    I'll keep this review short: If you're looking for a fun game just to mess around with, than this game is for you. Pros: FUNFUNFUNFUNFUNFUN, Explosions 4 days, wingsuit, open world, beautiful design, good controls, amazing replay value. Cons: Cringe - worthy loading times, bad story, repetitive gameplay mechanics, lots of frame rate drops, glitches, "unrealistic", sub - par voice acting.I'll keep this review short: If you're looking for a fun game just to mess around with, than this game is for you. Pros: FUNFUNFUNFUNFUNFUN, Explosions 4 days, wingsuit, open world, beautiful design, good controls, amazing replay value. Cons: Cringe - worthy loading times, bad story, repetitive gameplay mechanics, lots of frame rate drops, glitches, "unrealistic", sub - par voice acting. Overall, it's an amazing game I'd recommend to just about anyone.… Expand
  10. TrueThat
    Feb 8, 2017
    4
    A. Gameplay - 6
    the are a lot of fun stuff to do, big variety of weapons, tools, air land and sea vehicles at your disposal. the bad thing is that it gets old very quickly and every missionside mission are exactly the same. the map is very large but again every town and every base and location looks and feels exactly the same as if the map is the same 10% copied and pasted to create a    A. Gameplay - 6
    the are a lot of fun stuff to do, big variety of weapons, tools, air land and sea vehicles at your disposal. the bad thing is that it gets old very quickly and every missionside mission are exactly the same. the map is very large but again every town and every base and location looks and feels exactly the same as if the map is the same 10% copied and pasted to create a bigger scale. AI is horrible and there is no challenge in this game what so ever.

    B. Graphics - 7
    overall the visuals look good but somewhat sterile for example underwater exploration is just empty pool filled with water, same for the mountains. all the towns looks the same. car models are way under-par not to mention the damage models.

    C. Audio - 6
    radio is very limited - no music. soundtrack is OK but very short. voice acting could be much better.

    D. Story - 4
    what story? well there is some story but it is not good or interesting in any meaning and the only reason I kept myself from skipping them completely is the somewhat funny and goofy characters which occasionally makes you grim.

    E. Content Vs. Value - 3
    the map is huge but there is not much to do in it. there are no side missions only collectables and dumb challenges. the main story is short and has no replay value, the game is fun for the first 3 hours after that you just rinse and repeat with no further significant development and for the rest of the game it feels tedious and boring. I didn't bother with the dumb side stuff and after completing the main story I sold the disc for the next day.

    F. Controls and Mechanics - 5
    on foot controls are good, although weapons feel clunky and the control preset is not that comfortable.
    car controls are awkward with bad physics and overall unresponsive. fells like you are driving a card box on wheels.
    sea vehicles are the same as cars.
    air vehicles are actually very good.

    G. Stability and Performance - 1
    the game hard crashed at least couple of times in every sitting, guess what? there is no quick-save option.
    performance is the worst I had experienced in video games, for the most game the FPS is bad way below 30, when there is action, explosions, shooting, Crashing basically anything what this game is about the FPS will plummet to an all time low even to a single digit FPS. IN Fact the only times I had the game run smooth is in distance locations with minimal objects, NPC's and stuff that happens for example walking in the mountains, parachuting above open sea, etc'. Unplayable and Unacceptable.    … Expand
  11. Javoii99
    Dec 1, 2015
    7
    i really wanted to enjoy this game, after being a huge fan of the previous just cause game i was hoping for something great, but unfortunately this edition to the series wasn't the game i was expecting, it sounds awesome flying round blowing things up, but the thing that makes this game disappointing is the complete lack of civilians and any areal sign of life in the world, you may see 1i really wanted to enjoy this game, after being a huge fan of the previous just cause game i was hoping for something great, but unfortunately this edition to the series wasn't the game i was expecting, it sounds awesome flying round blowing things up, but the thing that makes this game disappointing is the complete lack of civilians and any areal sign of life in the world, you may see 1 or 2 civilians walking around every 5 mins which considering the fun you can have flinging civilians around with the grapple hook its a shame there isn't more NPC and its a shame they didn't realize this was a problem in JC2 and make it better for this game, it just doesn't feel like the huge improvement people were expecting, now don't get me wrong there is fun to be had in this game, im not siting here saying this game is 'compete' garbage but methods of fun feel stale and quite limited, but they're is 2 huge things that in fact no 3 things that really decided to put this game at 7 and put in in the top section of mixed and not in positive is 1.camera angles at times are really frustrating and can often get you either killed or put you off track what you were tying to do. 2.the car physics and handling of cars feels horrible, and i understand they were going for an arcade feel to the driving, which is cool that sound good, but they didn't pull it off, cars are very slow going round corners and can often understear a lot however this can depend on the car, and 3.which is a big one, FPS , now this could be a launch day bug and it could be fixed , and if it is i apologise please ignore this point but if it is still a problem then it is a 'problem' the whole point of this game is to blow **** up right, but when you blow **** up the console can often lag and the fps can drop rapidly which is infuriating when you just wanna get on and blow **** up but the game is running like an 1860's ice maker, it just embarrassing not only for avalanche for releasing a game clearly not capable of running smoothly with high combat but also for Microsoft who clearly have put wool over peoples eyes and obviously the Xbox one is as advanced as we thing ,but before i go of on a tangent about Xbox ones i just wanna summarize by saying that the games is fun don't get me wrong but don't be expecting hours after hours of fun on it because it can get boring quickly, and as fr the FPS well hopefully is fixed soon :)… Expand
  12. NeoMorph
    Dec 10, 2015
    4
    Just Cause 3 would be an excellent game if not for the numerous long waits you have to have between cutscenes and gameplay then some more waiting for the mid cutscenes to load then more wait as the game loads and then more waits... and it gets tiresome... AND when re-doing challenges.. it's waitwaitwait.

    Most other games take a few seconds to reset you back to the beginning of your    Just Cause 3 would be an excellent game if not for the numerous long waits you have to have between cutscenes and gameplay then some more waiting for the mid cutscenes to load then more wait as the game loads and then more waits... and it gets tiresome... AND when re-doing challenges.. it's waitwaitwait.

    Most other games take a few seconds to reset you back to the beginning of your race course and you are ready to start again. In JC3 you can mess up a challenge, click to restart, go to the loo, clean up and come back AND THE GAME STILL ISN'T FINISHED LOADING (and yeah, that happened to me).

    Also don't talk to me about the framerate drops. Trying to do the wingsuit courses when the game begins chugging away and you are trying to get that last gear. You mess it up because of the frame rate drops and then you have to wait and wait and wait for it to reload the challenge again. Try again... fail and you spend more time waiting for the game to load than you do trying to do the challenge. The PC version doesn't seem to have these awful loading times. On that it is almost instant. Consoles, though, are slower than an old 5.25 floppy disc, it seems.

    This game wasn't ready for release on consoles. On PC, yes... it loads fast so it's at least playable. On my Xbox I want to play the game I though I was buying (from the PC videos showing loading times of around 4-5 seconds)... not this "Wait-a-thon-2015 Expensive Edition" POS. And this is is with the resolution dropped to 900p on the XB1.

    This game needs another optimization pass... and STRONG one too.    … Expand
  13. MisterZorin
    Jan 8, 2017
    0
    Just Cause 3 is a total mess on Xbox One. The performance is horrible! Very low fps and insanely long loading times. Too bad, because it could have been the perfect sandbox game. Apparently the developers don't care, because a year after its release they still haven't fixed these issues. The DID release DLC for this failure of a game however.
  14. MONSTATURKEY
    Dec 1, 2015
    8
    Very impressive game. Better than its predecessors, however, it cannot compete with games like fallout and MGSV. But overall, a fantastic game, and the wingsuit is awesome
  15. Lackin
    Dec 1, 2015
    9
    I am very much enjoying the game at the moment only played about 3 hours of it so far but very impressive. Many of the aspects of Just Cause 2 that I loved are still there but somehow made even better. Also some of the new features such as the wing suit are so fun and so exciting to use.

    PS. Explosions for days. I do r8 m8
  16. Joe614
    Dec 1, 2015
    4
    I wanted to write this review an hour into the game but I felt that wouldn't be a fair review. I now have 8 hours into the game and the game is mediocre. The graphics are sub-par, the game mechanics are not any better. The driving is horrible and the shooting is just as bad. The frame rate drops constantly. It is a shame, because I was really looking forward to this game. Get the game on sale.
  17. Karl2294
    Dec 1, 2015
    10
    10/10 from me.. this game gives me everything I want at the moment; FUN, FUN & FUN!

    Truly a step up from Just Cause 2, in this 3rd installment bigger really is better. I have recently put 3 days into Fallout 4 and I find myself dropping it like a hot potato just thinking about the chaos I can create in this game. For those who want a break from the intense online shooters, epic story    10/10 from me.. this game gives me everything I want at the moment; FUN, FUN & FUN!

    Truly a step up from Just Cause 2, in this 3rd installment bigger really is better. I have recently put 3 days into Fallout 4 and I find myself dropping it like a hot potato just thinking about the chaos I can create in this game.

    For those who want a break from the intense online shooters, epic story rpgs and games alike.. pick this up!    … Expand
  18. HyperMooseSFC7
    Dec 1, 2015
    9
    This is undoubtedly one of the most fun and enjoyable games i have played for a while, in general this is the squeal i had been hoping for, the edition of the wing suit with the grapple is great fun (once you get a hang of it). The upgrades and modification system is decent, the availability of cars, boats, planes helicopters etc, is great. The game is repetitive, like the last one,This is undoubtedly one of the most fun and enjoyable games i have played for a while, in general this is the squeal i had been hoping for, the edition of the wing suit with the grapple is great fun (once you get a hang of it). The upgrades and modification system is decent, the availability of cars, boats, planes helicopters etc, is great. The game is repetitive, like the last one, however missions do variate considerably more compared with JC2. The map is giant and great fun to explore, overall this game is brilliant, the only downsides being the AI are crap and there is no online play (ie gta5 style).… Expand
  19. fallouts
    Feb 15, 2016
    7
    Eh, not bad at all, but something definitely seems to be missing with this game. The game play and explosions are better than before, but the map has far less locations than the last game making the map feel rather empty and lifeless. The character feels like a generic military buff this time around with the voice to match. The devs kept hyping the story yet it's very generic and barelyEh, not bad at all, but something definitely seems to be missing with this game. The game play and explosions are better than before, but the map has far less locations than the last game making the map feel rather empty and lifeless. The character feels like a generic military buff this time around with the voice to match. The devs kept hyping the story yet it's very generic and barely gets the job done. The biggest sin this game commits is forcing the players to do these challenges to unlock skills essential to game play. The challenges themselves are phoned in and uninspired. If you can't be bothered to do these side activities (I don't blame you if you don't) then you will be using the same few moves throughout the game. Also, why did they take out he whip meele move and replaced it with this lame shoulder push. Visually, this game shines and is probably one of the best looking games of this generation so far with a detailed map and a very well done view distance. Overall, get it on sale.… Expand
  20. shawnnorris
    Dec 4, 2015
    10
    I love this game! I don't understand the other reviewers who said they experienced frame rate drops and long load times, because I haven't experienced either and I'm connected online all the time. They improved so much from Just Cause 2, and the wing suit is so much fun once you get a hang of it. The best looking explosions in video games are in this game, an while the graphics aren't theI love this game! I don't understand the other reviewers who said they experienced frame rate drops and long load times, because I haven't experienced either and I'm connected online all the time. They improved so much from Just Cause 2, and the wing suit is so much fun once you get a hang of it. The best looking explosions in video games are in this game, an while the graphics aren't the best I've seen this generation, they're still pretty good. But it's the gaming experience of Just Cause 3 that makes it a winner for me.… Expand
  21. Moses057
    Dec 2, 2015
    8
    If you like blowing stuff up, this is a great game. The explosions are just freaking beautiful. There is a few technical issues. And the story is ok at best. I didn't buy this game for the story. I bought this game to run around and blow stuff up, and that you can do plenty of. If the technical issues get fixed by a patch this game would be a 9/10
  22. matrikTH
    Jan 16, 2016
    4
    This game could be an awesome sandbox. It looks really really nice and it so much fun to blow stuff up in this world. But unfortunately, this game is unplayable on Xbox One due to countless technical issues.

    * First, the loading times. Seriously, this is absolute ridiculous. When you first start the game it takes several minutes before you even reach the main menu. Granted, you are    This game could be an awesome sandbox. It looks really really nice and it so much fun to blow stuff up in this world. But unfortunately, this game is unplayable on Xbox One due to countless technical issues.

    * First, the loading times. Seriously, this is absolute ridiculous. When you first start the game it takes several minutes before you even reach the main menu. Granted, you are instantly in the game when you hit start, but still.
    When you fail a mission, you have to wait again for up to two minutes to retry.
    This is absolutely unacceptable for a game in 2016!

    * The game crashes often. Very often. Feels like every 30 minutes or so, it has to hard reset

    * The framerate is unbearable and it drops very often to a diashow for a few seconds

    Keep in mind, this is *after* the "performance update"!

    I think I would really enjoy this game and it's world if it would actually be playable. Every time I start it, I have fun for a few minutes before it all falls apart technically. It's a shame and I really hope the sort it out. But I won't hold my breath until that happens.

    I don't know if it is playable on other platforms, but stay away from this if you have to play it on Xbox One.    … Expand
  23. Mozidigital
    Dec 29, 2015
    10
    After the update, EPIC 10/10 unlimited mayhem, freedom, and fun. If you cant figure out the controls or lack an imagination, then this might not be the best game for you, else GOTY 2015/16
  24. Mogwai76
    Dec 3, 2015
    0
    Just Cause 3 has not moved on at all from the first game. Yes, it looks graphically better and you now have a wing suit, but at the end of the day it's still all about physics and explosions. In 2015, and with games like MGS, Far Cry, Fallout and others, that simply is not enough in my book. The game comes in at a whopping 43 gig and has a 2.7 gig patch on Xbox One and so far the day oneJust Cause 3 has not moved on at all from the first game. Yes, it looks graphically better and you now have a wing suit, but at the end of the day it's still all about physics and explosions. In 2015, and with games like MGS, Far Cry, Fallout and others, that simply is not enough in my book. The game comes in at a whopping 43 gig and has a 2.7 gig patch on Xbox One and so far the day one patch has not fixed the massive performance issues (Frame Rate drops to below 20 at times and loading times are insane). JC3 has a massive open world, but little (of interest) to do in it. Once you have taken out 2 or 3 areas and done a few "side missions" (and I use the term loosely here) you have done pretty much all there is to do. Story was never great in JC and the main missions always lacked imagination, and JC3 has not moved on here at all either. If all you want to see is explosions (though with massive drops in performance) and play around with physics, then you might get some hours of entertainment out of it. But I'd recommend waiting until it drops in price - there are far better games out right now that deserve your money more and provide more interesting content. JC has huge potential, I hope Square moves the franchise away from Avalanche and gives it to a studio worthy of the IP (as they have done with Tomb Raider) - it needs a reboot badly.… Expand
  25. TheLastColossus
    Dec 1, 2015
    6
    The frame rate, story and characters are wack, but everything else is good, after they fix the obvious problems, this game to me will be a 8 out of 10 game.
  26. thaesino
    Dec 1, 2015
    10
    I couldn't possibly understand those out there on the net giving this game a low rating. The game does well, once again, what it has always done well. Provided an environment full of mindless explosions a la Michael Bay (I swear I set a guy on fire by shooting a motorcycle near him. Are humans THAT flammable?), a bunch of overly predictable tropes, the lot of which you may find in any ofI couldn't possibly understand those out there on the net giving this game a low rating. The game does well, once again, what it has always done well. Provided an environment full of mindless explosions a la Michael Bay (I swear I set a guy on fire by shooting a motorcycle near him. Are humans THAT flammable?), a bunch of overly predictable tropes, the lot of which you may find in any of the old Hollywood action films. I mean - seriously... or wait, wait... NOT SERIOUSLY. That's the problem here. Critics and Gamers alike are taking this game WAY TOO SERIOUSLY. This is not GTA. This is not Saint's Row. This is Spaaart........ err, I mean... this is JUST CAUSE, and it is so much fun; the parachuting/wingsuit gliding/parachuting again - REPEAT REPEAT REPEAT, the new tricks, the feeling that bullets never run out, the new mechanism with tying two items together being even better than before. Alright... I'm going back to Medici to set tie some more of Di Ravello's people to moving vehicles.… Expand
  27. MrTusks
    Oct 12, 2017
    1
    I wish I could have a more informed opinion, but the game ran so terribly that I traded it in after about three hours. It suffered horrendous slowdown whenever too much was happening on screen, so for a game centered on causing chaos, that's a death sentence. I play games on a console because standardized hardware is supposed to make performance optimization easy, so there's no excuse. OhI wish I could have a more informed opinion, but the game ran so terribly that I traded it in after about three hours. It suffered horrendous slowdown whenever too much was happening on screen, so for a game centered on causing chaos, that's a death sentence. I play games on a console because standardized hardware is supposed to make performance optimization easy, so there's no excuse. Oh well. Just Cause 2 was good, and I think it's backwards-compatible, so try that.… Expand
  28. SuperkenGaming
    Mar 23, 2016
    8
    Just cause 3,
    massive map, massive fun, and massive let down.
    Just cause 3 is a 3rd person action adventure gamewhere you play as rico rodriguez, set out to liberate the massive island you’re on... You do this equipped with some guns, a parachute, and a grappling gun… Just cause 3 is hilarious, and never takes itself seriously... it knows it’s a ridiculous videogame and it makes fun of    Just cause 3,
    massive map, massive fun, and massive let down.
    Just cause 3 is a 3rd person action adventure gamewhere you play as rico rodriguez, set out to liberate the massive island you’re on...
    You do this equipped with some guns, a parachute, and a grappling gun…
    Just cause 3 is hilarious, and never takes itself seriously... it knows it’s a ridiculous videogame and it makes fun of itself the entire way…
    You’re going to have a blast for the first few hours of this game...
    There’s seemingly so much to do...
    There are cars to collect... missions to do... towns and bases to liberate, and challenges to conquer
    plus basically the entire world is destructive
    unfortunately, this becomes stale very quickly…
    Apart from the hilarious cut scenes, there’s nothing special about the campaign, it’s your typical fight your way to the bad guy story, get the things he’s after before he does…
    what I found pretty clever though is that a couple missions require you to liberate sections of the map before they will unlock..
    This forces you to do the best parts of the game in my opinion...
    Liberating can be fun... at least the military bases...
    You basically go in and destroy all of their goods while they try and stop you…
    and this is the meat of the game…
    it’s a clean the map game which again is fun for a while, but is massively repetitive…
    I feel like the staleness comes from the restrictions the game puts on you…
    For starters as you complete missions and get stars from missions you’ll unlock vehicles and guns…
    the great thing is you can request these items from a drop box anytime at all
    the problem is you need a beacon to do this…
    This is bad because you’ll find yourself in the middle of nowhere many times after a mission with no beacons or a helicopter in sight... causing you to have to grapple way 8,000 km to your next way point
    Sure infinite beacons would’ve made just cause 3 much easier.. But more importantly I feel like it would make the game much more fun...
    more about causing destruction and mayhem and less about forcing you to traverse a massive but empty world….it isn’t a game you play for challenge anyway or really a game you play to explore…
    the same issue can be found with fast travel..
    You can only carry 1 flare at a time and you need this flare to fast travel to a location…
    I would’ve much rather had fast travels be endless but limited to liberated bases...
    This would’ve given me incentive to liberate beyond the minimum to complete the story…
    but while you are creating havoc, almost everything you do is tied to a score so you can try to outdo your friends in craziness…
    you can of course opt out and play offline. .but annoyingly every time you go to check the map or pause the game it tries to log you in stopping all flow and immersion of the game...
    This is by far the greatest sin the game commits…
    I had games downloading in the background so it would attempt to log in for minutes, causing me to get distracted numerous times by something else… only to remember oh yeah, I was playing just cause 3…
    When I enter offline mode, please keep me there until I opt in to online...
    don’t try to force it
    while there are hours of fun to be had in just cause 3
    I didn’t really find the journey to be worth it all in the end…
    There’s a good time here, just no real substance
    I give just cause 3 an 8/10    … Expand
  29. kewldawg6969
    Jan 20, 2016
    9
    Just Cause 3 is a GREAT GAME
    It is so fun, but I did not experience any glitches or frame rate issues my whole 50 hour playthrough
    The gameplay is awesome gives you so many things you can explode in different and fun ways Especially fun if you are creative and destroying things in creative ways is both fun and satisfying Story is not as good but WHO CARES This game is not for the    Just Cause 3 is a GREAT GAME
    It is so fun, but I did not experience any glitches or frame rate issues my whole 50 hour playthrough
    The gameplay is awesome gives you so many things you can explode in different and fun ways
    Especially fun if you are creative and destroying things in creative ways is both fun and satisfying
    Story is not as good but WHO CARES
    This game is not for the story it is for the gameplay and ridiculous stunts and explosions you can pull off
    the awesome things: gameplay shooting open world characters grapple wing suit
    The OK things: story
    Bad things: weapons all feel the same and lack of good side missions or progression    … Expand
  30. wstoecker
    Feb 2, 2016
    10
    Awesome storyline, plenty of content, and my favourite part is that it's the perfect game to just pop in and have immediate fun causing havoc freely across the map. Love!
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#94 Best Xbox One Game of 2015
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#15 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2015

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 24
  3. Negative: 0 out of 24
  1. Pelit (Finland)
    Mar 3, 2016
    83
    Just Cause 3 entertains at first with its symphony of destruction, but becomes repetitive. [Jan 2016]
  2. games(TM)
    Jan 9, 2016
    60
    The lasting memories of Just Cause 3 will be the small moments where everything comes together to make the most insignificant action feel like a unique event. The fact that all of the mechanics work together so seamlessly is impressive, but the magic is fleeting.
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  3. Game Over Online
    Jan 8, 2016
    80
    Just Cause 3 is the game for you, so long as the game you’re looking for is almost exclusively about bending the laws of man, nature and physics until they break for comedic effect.
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