When I went looking for this game it was in the hope that it would be a great as it successor Just Cause 2. After playing through the narrow story and clocking most of my time running around causing chaos over the games 1,025 square kilometers I've been able to assess how well this game stacks up in the market today for those that want to play it.
Off the bat you are dropped outside the island of San Esperito, the fictitious location of the games top secret activities. Without any warning, you were supposed to open up your parachute and float down to the beach without even been shown controls. Was I supposed to read through the booklet game companies usually drop into the box, maybe. I wasn't given that luxury since my new out of the box copy of the game didn't come with one, just a poorly designed box with an impossible mechanism to keep the disc stationary.
I should have looked through the action mapping in game perhaps, only if the task of navigating menus were possible. This port to PC was horribly done in regards to control customization and navigation. To navigate you must use the archaic method of arrow and enter keys, not the simpler usage of the mouse. For control customization it only allows you to change from different preset schemes and no available option to change sensitivity. When designing it for the PC platform the developers seemed to drop the ball in this regard.
It's not all bad though, the game offers players an interesting story line with multi-faction warfare. You work for the Agency, Cartels and Revolutionaries, each offering you different bonuses based how well they like you. The game can also give you wonderful landscape views if you crank the graphics up. Being an open world game you get to explore a huge amount land with this series, going from boats, planes and cars. The wealth of weapons that you can choose from is also great, but it falls short since you have a pair of pistols with infinite ammo, why would you use other weapons then?
I'd rate this game a 58/100, this is our sites lowest rating given so far which is shocking at first since this game seemed to offer a lot. When opening it up and putting the disc in nobody can be surprised about the outcome though. For a poor port to PC, clunky controls and an unresponsive environment you go hang on the wall of shame. For those that are still surprised about the outcome, discuss it. You may be asking why such a low rating. Well, just cause.