In Just Cause 3, the third instalment of Avalanche Studios’ open-world action series, you’re no longer controlling Rico Rodriguez the latino super spy and explosion enthusiast. You’re controlling Rico Rodriguez the god.
Or at least that’s how it seems, given that from the outset of the game you’re handed a bottomless backpack of C4, a permanently equipped wingsuit and enough grappling hook tethers to reduce a fleet of enemy helicopters into a swirling mechanical tumbleweed of destruction.
The game’s Mediterranean island setting is so picturesque it would seem criminal to damage even an inch of it, yet that’s precisely what you’re encouraged to do and indeed you’re given an intoxicating amount of ways in which to do it. You want to topple that giant statue of a local dictator in a village town square in order to inspire the rebellion? Well, you could just drive a truck into it. Or you could wallpaper it with C4 and detonate it from a distance. Or you could tether its outstretched hand to its smug, stoney face with multiple cords from your grapple gun, then use the new manual grappling controls to force it to slap itself until its head crumbles into pieces, as though you were some sort of demented puppeteer (or a boorish big brother).
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Or at least that’s how it seems, given that from the outset of the game you’re handed a bottomless backpack of C4, a permanently equipped wingsuit and enough grappling hook tethers to reduce a fleet of enemy helicopters into a swirling mechanical tumbleweed of destruction.
The game’s Mediterranean island setting is so picturesque it would seem criminal to damage even an inch of it, yet that’s precisely what you’re encouraged to do and indeed you’re given an intoxicating amount of ways in which to do it. You want to topple that giant statue of a local dictator in a village town square in order to inspire the rebellion? Well, you could just drive a truck into it. Or you could wallpaper it with C4 and detonate it from a distance. Or you could tether its outstretched hand to its smug, stoney face with multiple cords from your grapple gun, then use the new manual grappling controls to force it to slap itself until its head crumbles into pieces, as though you were some sort of demented puppeteer (or a boorish big brother).
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