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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 12.6 hrs on record
Posted: 28 Jan @ 6:54pm
Updated: 28 Jan @ 7:16pm

I've tried to get into it 4 times since I've bought it, but I could never go past few hours. Didn't know why, until recently doing 100% in Just Cause 2. Hungry for more destruction I've tried this one again. Man, this game stinks.

- Always online and constant reconnects in a SINGLE PLAYER GAME
- Hard crashes to desktop
- Sluggish movement and controls
- Awful gunplay, somehow much worse than JC2
- Steering and aiming military vehicles makes me want to delete myself
- Challenges are cancer, and some 5* are so unnecessarily difficult
- Some challenges give multiple paths to choose from, but some routes won't give you 5* even when perfectly executed... Then you have to guess which route to choose just for a chance to get 5*. Who TF thought of that?!
- The worst bike driving in gaming history. It reminds me of "vehicles" I've made as a kid in Garry's Mod, welding together a chair, few wheels and thrusters.
- Boring map. In JC2 we had jungles, snowy mountains, green plains, desert, sandy mountains, huge megacity, archipelagos, huge branching rivers. Enemy camouflage matched the environment. Here everything looks more or less the same, with couple snowy peaks.
- Taking over cities is a repetitive slog
- Many military bases are copy-pasted 1:1 and can be taken within literally 10-15 seconds
- Dialogues are mega cringe. After JC2 they've turned the "goofy" knob to the max and the game keeps reminding me of Goat Simulator. Characters don't feel like they take anything seriously and often act like children. They keep referring to people and events from past, that add absolutely nothing to the story and I as a player can't relate in any way. Factions are a joke

Just Cause 2 wasn't a storytelling masterpiece, but as a parody of USA "peacekeeping" was great. The world was silly, but at least characters took it seriously as it was. Factions were unique and had their own unique agendas and their missions and bases you took over reflected that. Faction leaders didn't ask you to steal a moped from some girl, because she made a mean comment about their hair in school...

Quick add that I've played on both controller and keyboard+mouse. I don't even want to think how painful would some challenges be using just the latter.

I really wanted to like this game. All I've got was disappointment and frustration.
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