RICO'S
ANGLING FOR
AN FAA FINE.
JUST LIKE
THAT
TWILIGHT
ZONE
EPISODE.
Drops. Without a Beacon, no gear for you.
The second, and more
obscure limitation is a
cooldown time for each
item that you call in, to
prevent spamming. It’s
as if there are two locked
doors to get through for
each item that you want,
and doesn’t seem necessary to include both.
The tactics involved
with gunplay are so light
that there are really no
differences in guns other
than whether they are
semi-automatic,
burst
firing, or fully automatic
weapons. While enjoy-
PRESENTATION: 9.0
GAMEPLAY: 9.5
INNOVATION: 9.5
VARIETY: 9.0
REPLAYABILITY: 10
able, some enemies take
seemingly hundreds of
bullets to kill. It hasn’t
added anything to the
gameplay, only made it
seem longer and less exciting. Vehicles do vary
a lot – from motorbikes
to jeeps to attack jets
to warships – and are
nice to have, but they’re
seldom necessary. The
wingsuit is so fast and
lovely that there’s never
need to give the time
of day to any vehicles
Medici can throw at me.
The core of the game,
which is destruction and
chaos on a massive
The folks at
Avalanche have
outdone themselves
once again, and we
can’t wait to see
what they have in
store for gamers
next. We’ll be
playing Just Cause 3
for a long time yet.
scale, is spot on. The
unlimited explosives are
handy, to say the least,
and are just one of the
ways – like removing
the quick time event sequences for hijacking
vehicles – the game has
been streamlined in favour of embracing the
destructive nature of the
game. Some might say
the gameplay is repetitive because the main
draw of the game is to
blow things up, but that
is where experimenting
with the tools at your
disposal comes in very
handy.
ISLAND INTRIGUE
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
T
ake out every police station and decimate
every enemy base, and you still won't have
completely wrecked Di Ravello's forces. You can
occasionally see jeeps full of soldiers heading off
on suicide missions against the rebels - although
they probably won't bother you.
SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOOM
I
f you play this game on PC, you'll never see
Boom Island, designed to place players who
are waiting for the game to install. But you can
get to this mysterious rock filled with nothing but
ruins, explosive barrels and one dune buggy.It's
way out to the west of the map, so jump in a boat
or helicopter and have the place to yourself.
CHEATERS SOMETIMES PROSPER
9.4
I
n most of the destruction challenges your weapons are removed except the one the game wants
you to use. But all vehicles lying around are still
usable - why bother trying to destroy a base with
a shotgun when you can tear it up in a helicopter
gunship?
FALL FROM GRACE
P
arty airship the Mile High Club appears in this
game too, but it's not so glorious as before.
Its rusting hulk appears on a northern beach in
Maestrale province. What happened to it is unclear.
GOT JUST CAUSE TO DIFFER?
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