Escort quests are common and, often the characters you are meant to babysit in these quests are capable of getting to the objective by themselves. Missions in Just Cause 4 will start to feel repetitive quickly and often take one of a few forms. I played on the basic Xbox One model and mileage may vary from system to system, but it’s hard to apologize for some of the visual atrocities you are likely to encounter in Just Cause 4.
It’s not a pretty sight, and the faster you approach objects, the worse it gets. Distant explosions look like low resolution gifs and trees are sometimes rendered with all the fidelity of amateur cross-stitch. This is especially true when you turn a critical eye towards the game’s graphics. At one point, a woman was endlessly knocking on a door shouting “Por favor, let me in! Please, please, help me.” on a two second loop, which suggests that the developers don’t want the player pausing to look at anything too hard. The lifeless quality is such that a city that is meant to be panicking for their lives can feel utterly devoid of humanity. In the end, though, most of these areas don’t feel satisfying to inhabit. This allows players to take more missions in new areas. In Just Cause 4, players are tasked with creating chaos in order to recruit members into an “Army of Chaos.” Why? Well, so Rico and Company can expand their presence in the region. Most of the interactions in the world will play out through what feel like side missions. Progressing too quickly through an environment, which will happen a lot due to the range of movement options, will cut well-acted dialogue short. Unfortunately, the story often takes a backseat. There were times where I certainly wanted to engage more thoroughly with everyone and everything. His companion, Mira, and her relationship with a particularly contemptible villain are a notable high point of the story. The dialogue between him and all of the other characters if both believable and unique. While Rico is sometimes cheesy, he is ultimately lovable. Players once again take control of Rico Rodriguez and, once again, rail against an oppressive regime called the Black Hand as part of a revolution. Instead, they were tasked with creating an excuse for players to run around sewing discord. The lifeless feeling is a shame, too, because the writers for Just Cause 4 have the talent to create something compelling. Just Cause 4 is far from perfect execution. Just Cause 4 embraces that concept with additions like extreme weather, but the feeling of traversing through its lifeless world gives a sense that wide open, sandbox games are a tricky proposition and tiresome when they aren't executed perfectly. The franchise’s best times are submerged in chaos, and this is a feature that has become more true with each subsequent iteration.
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This is Just Cause 4, and it’s ridiculous.įans of the Just Cause series will probably arrive in Just Cause 4 expecting ridiculous moments, though. I’m about three quarters through this escort mission and have yet to use a single bullet.
The game reacted to the trucks movement and came back to life, urging me to protect it for the duration of a two-minute timer. Having no choice, I affixed a bunch of balloons to the truck, causing it to float.
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The truck I’m escorting stopped moving, the driver apparently asleep at the wheel. Nearby gunmen have seemingly given up on me. “That looks fun,” says the lady to the left, before abruptly turning to continuously walk into her friend’s face for a few moments. Her two friends stand beside her, eerily swaying in frame-perfect synchronization. “But I don’t even have a mortgage,” says the computer-controlled character to some unseen character on the phone.
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