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As agent Rico Rodriguez, help topple San Esperito’s regime through open-world missions, faction alliances, vehicle stunts, and parachute jumps.
Released 15 Mar 2007
Parachute onto Vehicles
Hook onto Vehicles
Liberate Island Settlements
Your world...Your rules!
Developed by Avalanche Studios · Published by Square Enix
You play as Rico Rodriguez, an agent sent to the tropical island of San Esperito to help overthrow its corrupt regime. Local rebel forces and rival cartels are also vying for power.
Take on story and side missions, fight government forces, and explore the island by land, sea, and air. You can use a grappling hook and parachute to pull off stunts, including jumping between or onto moving vehicles.
Liberating settlements and other locations strengthens allied factions and can provide access to support and equipment. Missions can be approached in different ways, while exploration offers additional activities, collectibles, and vehicles to find.
Players who enjoy the game often highlight the freedom to roam a large island, use a wide range of vehicles, and create action-movie-style stunts with the hook and parachute. Some also value it for nostalgia or for seeing the series’ early ideas. Other reviews find the activities repetitive and the controls or technical behavior rough.
Your world...Your rules! In Just Cause, you are a Latin field operative and specialist in regime change backed by top secret US government agency who will overthrow the corrupt government of San Esperito. The rogue South American state is suspected of stockpiling Weapons of Mass Destruction, and it's your mission to negate the threat this poses to world peace. It could be to your advantage that the tropical paradise is about to implode as various factions vie for power - it just needs a gentle nudge in the right direction.
Just Cause offers the freedom to tackle your assignments however you want: playing the island's factions against one another, inciting a rebellion among the masses and building alliances with rebel forces and drug cartels. The action takes place in an incredibly detailed game world which consists of over 250,000 acres of mountains, jungles, beaches, cities and villages. The island can be explored by land, sea and air, as you will have at your disposal one of the most varied and exciting array of vehicles ever seen in a video game.
Freeform game-play: approach missions in any way you like, or break off from the fight and enjoy exploring the islands.
Over 250K acres of land to explore: the largest environment ever seen in a game!
Over-the-top Stunts: jump from vehicle-to-vehicle, parasail, skydive and base-jump...
Massive selection of vehicles: over 100 of the most varied, exciting array of land, sea and air vehicles ever seen in a video game.
Avalanche Engine™: procedurally generated landscape delivers a huge, beautiful, detailed world while eliminating loading times.
Wealth of missions: story missions, side-missions, bonus missions and many more; ensuring plenty of action spread throughout the islands.
Support team: Sheldon and Kane, two US government secret agents, will provide you with reconnaissance info, extraction and vehicle drops.
Fly: The best way to explore San Esperito is by air!
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Players | From 1 (maximum not specified) |
| Multiplayer | The provided information identifies Just Cause as supporting single-player. No multiplayer mode, player count, or specific multiplayer functionality is described in the store text or features list. A Steam tag includes Multiplayer, but the provided feature list does not confirm multiplayer support or its format. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No information about modding or multiplayer mods is provided. |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 75/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
