Edit: Nowadays this game goes on sale for $3 consistently. It's 100% worth it at that price. Review is still negative because I don't think its worth full price.

----original review starts here----

This game has a LOT of issues. Seeing as it's in the sale and there will be a lot of people considering buying it, I feel like I should outline the issues. TL;DR and specs at the bottom.

- Performance, it varies from person to person but personally I have a medium/high-end gaming rig and still get stuttering and frame drops. I get smoother framerates on games with more graphic fedelity. On consoles it's the same story, constant frame rate drops.

- There's a memory leak issue that is yet to be fixed. Instead of fixing the issue, the devs just raised the minimum RAM requirement from 8GB to 16GB and added a message for every time you boot up the game telling you that you have insufficient memory. Apparently getting more RAM actually fixes a lot of performance issues with the game, go figure.

- The car handling in this game is so, so, bad. People says that Just Cause 2's handling was bad, but that game is a shining light of glory compared to JC3's habdling. And then just wait until you try a motorbike. The turning is horrid, it feels like you have no control sometimes. You hold down the button or move the stick to turn and there's a delay of about 1 second until your bike actually starts turning. It's so easy to make them spin out and / or flip. Again, when the devs were questioned about this, they literally said "We think it's fine!" (can't find the link to the tweet but I'm sure it's out there).

- There's no native way to change the FOV. There's mods that let you do so but then when you do change it a whole bunch of glitches appear, like terrain not rendering, animations ending, etc. I usually wouldn't mind, but the default FOV is so low to begin with, try driving a car, it's right up in your face and you can barely see past it.

- Missions are creative until you realise that a lot of them are the same being repeated multiple times. Story is boring, I ended up ignoring it and just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around. Plus, at least for me, destroying bases got boring after a while because there's so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ many. Just Cause 2 did the whole "Chaos" thing better. When you destroyed military vehicles, killed personnel, destroyed bases, etc. you would gain Chaos and once you reached a certain point you would unlock new items and missions. This worked great because you would end up unlocking things just by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around. Just Cause 3 however makes you liberate towns and bases, which are mostly just the same thing over and over again. Destroy these buildings, shut down this surveillance system, open this door, free these prisoners, kill there people. Over and over. It's very repetitive. As for Chaos? It's just a meanless stat.

- The rebel drop system is stupid. In JC3 you have to collect flares from rebel bases, and then use those to call in a rebel drop. You have limited flares, but that's ok because you can just get whatever you want for free whenever you want. Right? Wrong, because there's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ WAIT TIMERS. You sometimes have to wait up to 20 minutes before you can drop in a plane again. It's one of the most anti-fun things a developer can do and is often paired with micro transactions that let you reduce the wait, but JC3 doesn't even HAVE microtransactions so the decision makes no sense.

Those are my main issues, but while I'm at it:

- There's no minimap. Why is there no minimap. You can pause the game and look at the map from there to find things buy that's no reason not to have a mini map.

- There's no sprint button. It makes Rico feel really slow in combat because you can't make him run any faster. The devs said that they want you to "use Rico's other movement skills" or whatever but JC2's sprint button was super useful.

- Devs said they wanted to support modders but every patch completely broke most mod. I think there's still some mods that haven't been updated to the latest versions of the game.

- Speaking of patches, there hasn't been one in months. You know what the latest patch was? DLC release. No big fixes. These devs charged us heaps of money for lackluster DLC and the worst part is I was idiotic enough to buy the first one. I'll give them the fact that have a booster on my wingsuit is cool but maybe they could use the extra time spent on DLC fixing the huge bugs in the game? Wait, that doesn't earn them money. Whoops, lol

- WHY DID THEY RE-INVENT THE WHEEL AND BIND LEFT CTRL TO BACK. WHY NOT JUST USE ESC. YOU KNOW, LIKE EVERY OTHER PROGRAM AND GAME EVER PROGRAMMED LIKE EVER. WHY.

TL;DR: Is this game fun? Hell yeah, I have like 70 hours on it. Is it worth full price? ♥♥♥♥ no. Buy Just Cause 2 in the next sale for like $3 and then play it for three years until Just Cause 3 is a similar price. Just Cause 3 could have been great given another year of development. But it's just gonna forever be that game that could have been ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awesome but instead blowed and probably killed the entire franchise. Good job, Avalanche. Next time give the game to a competent development team.

Rant over. Can you tell I'm still salty about a nearly 1 year old release?

SPECS:

i5-4460, 3.2 GHz
GTX 970, 3.5GB VRAM (heh)
8GB RAM
aka way above recommended requirements

Edit: Nowadays this game goes on sale for $3 consistently. It's 100% worth it at that price. Review is still negative because I don't think its worth full price. ----original review starts here---- This game has a LOT of issues. Seeing as it's in the sale and there will be a lot of people considering buying it, I feel like I should outline the issues. TL;DR and specs at the bottom. - Performance, it varies from person to person but personally I have a medium/high-end gaming rig and still get stuttering and frame drops. I get smoother framerates on games with more graphic fedelity. On consoles it's the same story, constant frame rate drops. - There's a memory leak issue that is yet to be fixed. Instead of fixing the issue, the devs just raised the minimum RAM requirement from 8GB to 16GB and added a message for every time you boot up the game telling you that you have insufficient memory. Apparently getting more RAM actually fixes a lot of performance issues with the game, go figure. - The car handling in this game is so, so, bad. People says that Just Cause 2's handling was bad, but that game is a shining light of glory compared to JC3's habdling. And then just wait until you try a motorbike. The turning is horrid, it feels like you have no control sometimes. You hold down the button or move the stick to turn and there's a delay of about 1 second until your bike actually starts turning. It's so easy to make them spin out and / or flip. Again, when the devs were questioned about this, they literally said "We think it's fine!" (can't find the link to the tweet but I'm sure it's out there). - There's no native way to change the FOV. There's mods that let you do so but then when you do change it a whole bunch of glitches appear, like terrain not rendering, animations ending, etc. I usually wouldn't mind, but the default FOV is so low to begin with, try driving a car, it's right up in your face and you can barely see past it. - Missions are creative until you realise that a lot of them are the same being repeated multiple times. Story is boring, I ended up ignoring it and just fucking around. Plus, at least for me, destroying bases got boring after a while because there's so god damn many. Just Cause 2 did the whole "Chaos" thing better. When you destroyed military vehicles, killed personnel, destroyed bases, etc. you would gain Chaos and once you reached a certain point you would unlock new items and missions. This worked great because you would end up unlocking things just by fucking around. Just Cause 3 however makes you liberate towns and bases, which are mostly just the same thing over and over again. Destroy these buildings, shut down this surveillance system, open this door, free these prisoners, kill there people. Over and over. It's very repetitive. As for Chaos? It's just a meanless stat. - The rebel drop system is stupid. In JC3 you have to collect flares from rebel bases, and then use those to call in a rebel drop. You have limited flares, but that's ok because you can just get whatever you want for free whenever you want. Right? Wrong, because there's fucking WAIT TIMERS. You sometimes have to wait up to 20 minutes before you can drop in a plane again. It's one of the most anti-fun things a developer can do and is often paired with micro transactions that let you reduce the wait, but JC3 doesn't even HAVE microtransactions so the decision makes no sense. Those are my main issues, but while I'm at it: - There's no minimap. Why is there no minimap. You can pause the game and look at the map from there to find things buy that's no reason not to have a mini map. - There's no sprint button. It makes Rico feel really slow in combat because you can't make him run any faster. The devs said that they want you to "use Rico's other movement skills" or whatever but JC2's sprint button was super useful. - Devs said they wanted to support modders but every patch completely broke most mod. I think there's still some mods that haven't been updated to the latest versions of the game. - Speaking of patches, there hasn't been one in months. You know what the latest patch was? DLC release. No big fixes. These devs charged us heaps of money for lackluster DLC and the worst part is I was idiotic enough to buy the first one. I'll give them the fact that have a booster on my wingsuit is cool but maybe they could use the extra time spent on DLC fixing the huge bugs in the game? Wait, that doesn't earn them money. Whoops, lol - WHY DID THEY RE-INVENT THE WHEEL AND BIND LEFT CTRL TO BACK. WHY NOT JUST USE ESC. YOU KNOW, LIKE EVERY OTHER PROGRAM AND GAME EVER PROGRAMMED LIKE EVER. WHY. TL;DR: Is this game fun? Hell yeah, I have like 70 hours on it. Is it worth full price? Fuck no. Buy Just Cause 2 in the next sale for like $3 and then play it for three years until Just Cause 3 is a similar price. Just Cause 3 could have been great given another year of development. But it's just gonna forever be that game that could have been fucking awesome but instead blowed and probably killed the entire franchise. Good job, Avalanche. Next time give the game to a competent development team. Rant over. Can you tell I'm still salty about a nearly 1 year old release? SPECS: i5-4460, 3.2 GHz GTX 970, 3.5GB VRAM (heh) 8GB RAM aka way above recommended requirements