I'm still only about a third of the way through this gigantic game according to the stats screen, but the time has been flying past nonetheless. Not that the old Just Cause spirit has entirely receded, of course. In the middle of a game that's largely concerned with mucking about, here is something that you can get actually better at with practice - and that turns out to be a welcome addition. With the wingsuit, you have a tool that cries out for genuine mastery. Just Cause has always offered plenty of explosive pleasures, but in a strange way, it's rarely required very much of the player in return. The final crucial thing about the wingsuit gets to the very heart of the series. I have to know - is that stone-washed denim Rico is wearing? Another welcome tweak, incidentally, is the ditching of health packs in favour of a recharging system - much more suited to Rico's foolhardy heroism. It's an entire landscape that is urging you to get into the air - and it rewards you with amazing views once you're up there. Medici is a joy to wingsuit over, and it's also a pain to drive around. It also requires Medici, a huge craggy mass of islands, scattered over a turquoise sea - turquoise when it's visible, at least. The wingsuit forms the third point of a beautiful triangle when combined with the grapple, for getting you into the air, and the parachute, for lofting you that little bit higher, but that's not the entirety of its brilliance. Barrel down and then pull up to retain momentum, but be warned: the best way to travel at real speed is to practically hug the ground. If you've played Super Mario World, you'll know the deal here: leap and deploy the wingsuit and you start to glide. The wingsuit is a wonderful addition, allowing Rico to swoop and dive for enormously long distances - or, if mismanaged, pull off astonishingly violent face-plants. Now what?) The grapple targeting seems to have learned a few lessons from the Arkham games' grapnel gun, too, since it's quicker to highlight points on a ridge that will loft you into the air for deployment of the parachute. (It eliminates that awkward moment in Just Cause 2 where your foes seemed to stand there and say: sure, we're tied together. After attaching two ends of it to two different objects, as of old, you can now squeeze the trigger to draw those two objects together, yoinking guards against each other, or tugging oil drums into oil refineries. Speaking of explosions, there's been a lot of work put into them since the last game, and they're now glorious beasts, clots of black smoke lit from within with infernal reds and heavenly golds.īut that's the basic stuff. Rico, the series' dictator-toppling super-agent has a vast new map to explore that moves the action to his home of Medici, an improbable Mediterranean paradise ruled by a brutal warlord and blessed by a strange local industry built around Bavarium, a mineral that is magnificently explosive. Sure, it's the stuff I did know I wanted, as well. At the moment, it's a bit of a tragedy, because for the 90 per cent of the time when the game isn't stuttering or generally freaking out, Just Cause 3 is everything I didn't know I wanted from Just Cause 2. Hopefully this will be sorted out fairly soon. The disappearing ocean at least allows you to enjoy the fully-sculpted seabed. Sometimes, I will be invading a base when all the floors will suddenly become translucent. Sometimes I will get in a car that crashes the game every time I do a handbrake turn. Best of all, when I die in battle, I sometimes respawn by rising, imperiously, out of the ground, as if riding a phantom elevator through the dirt. What's that huge thing flying through the air up ahead? It's a fishing boat, actually, and it's not flying so much as floating on an ocean that has suddenly become invisible. You'll go for a buzz around the mountaintops in a small plane, and the ground will break up into a jagged lo-poly maze. Beyond that, however, there are stranger, seemingly more imaginative issues.
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On PC - since a Monday morning patch, at least - the frame-rate fluctuates noticeably on my machine, depending on how much mayhem is taking place, while the loading is generally pretty zippy. On console, I gather that the problems come largely in the form of frame-rate issues and increasingly lengthy loading times. Just Cause 3 can be a little bit broken at times, and yet the 15 hours I've spent with it so far have been as lovely as they've been maddening. We'll be posting our final review in the very near future, and based on final patched console code, and for now here's an impressions piece based on a handful of hours with the PC version. Editor's note: Just Cause 3's review embargo has just lifted, though we wanted to take a little more time with the game to take into consideration patches that have recently arrived on PC and console.
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