Just Cause 4

Ok... So... Just Cause 4... Just Cause 4 Reloaded is... absolutely fine. That's it, fine. Not awful, not bad, not horrendous like some people say, it's just fine. When compared to JC2 or JC3, yeah, not good looks, but looking at it as it's own game, it's fine, even great at some fronts.

Just Cause 4 finally has a different story than "overthrow an authoritarian regime in Central America", also, finally some character development too, Rico is a bit more grumpy than expected, but still a good character. The story has... Something! They tried for once, it's no God of War but it gets the job done, and of course, ends on a cliffhanger. I will never forgive you if you don't give us a JC5 Avalanche >:(

Gameplay is better in every way imaginable (M/KB), some things were added, some removed, some changed (don't know who had the idea to auto-retract the tethers >.>), but overall, I still like it. Much easier to control Rico in the wingsuit and use all the gadgets.
Gunfight is still the same as JC2 and JC3, and by that I mean that it still awful. Using the rifles feels like you are shooting stone statues with a healthbar and that's it. No impact animations, no blood wounds, no physics, no gore, once their health reaches zero, the stiff statues become a ragdoll, and that's it.
Use explosive weapons or shotguns, believe me, much better.

Action is still awesome, destruction physics are the best of all JC games, the tornadoes ripping through the land and taking everything along with it is marvelous, I do wish we had more control of the weather effects tho, it's pretty complicated to control the Tornadoes for example. Ah yes, the turret sections are fun too.

The mission structure is... Strange, you have to release a few regions to unlock main missions, it's fine tho, can get tiresome but nothing extreme. I just played the main campaign, wasn't in the mood to 100% the game, I just released the regions and made the main missions, had a pretty decent time, but if you do all sides it will probably take forever and be boring.

Graphics are a mixed bag, the horizons looks beautiful, the explosion effects are among the best I have ever seen, the particles, fire, rain effects, all brilliant. As for the atmosphere, it has a darker tone to it, specially when compared to JC3, it's taste, I like it but I get those who enjoy a more vibrant experience. As for the bad, man, the lightning and texture work of the cutscenes are HORRENDOUS, my god, what happened there? Literal PS1 textures, sometimes the hair glitches, Sheldon looked like he had metal hair and beard on some cutscenes, the cutscenes are waaaay too dark and low res (literally 480p), I don't know why they did it, the in-game cutscenes are MUCH better. Last, of course, the ocean, yea the water is strange man, while it looks good at night with winds, during the day it looks like paper. Awful.

The performance is also fine for me, no framedrops at all, not even in tornadoes, the FPS is completely stable, much better performance than JC3 in all possible fronts and I had a single crash while playing and reproducing a stream on my second monitor. The only stutters I had was when I completed a leaderboard challenge, but once I disabled those in the menu, no more stutters.

As an old time fan that played all JC games (Really old, JC1 on PS2 was fire), I actually like it. Not the best Just Cause, but not the atrocity people make it.
I would give it mixed rating, but since I like it more than dislike it. Soft recommended.

I can recommend getting JC4 only on sale. I feel like the devs got tired of making the game but felt that they still needed to get compensated for all the work they've done so far and decided to put it out as is regardless of what players and fans would say. The game plays good but there will be one big lag and some awful stutter. After doing some search, you can eliminate the stutter by simply going in the option menu - game play - and Select leaderboard and put it on show none. Crazy right! This could have been fixed easily. goes to show you there is no love from the devs this time around. I gave it thumbs up to support them. We can all fall from time to time. But also I have finished it and also got one of the DLC's. So I did have some fun but the game is not even close to JC3 or JC2 in terms of quality.

This game gets a bad rap because it's a downscale from JC3, but that doesn't mean it's not a great game.
I went in to scratch the itch of driving around blowing stuff up, and JC4 delivers exactly that, so I was certainly not disappointed.
It's a bit more sandboxy than JC3 because capturing regions require you to get squads, which you get by causing Chaos (i.e. blowing stuff up). So you can capture a region without even setting foot in it, though some regions require a specific operation without them to be done before you can capture them - but they're always available, versus only available after you destroyed all enemy assets in the region.
I read some players dislike that approach compared to JC3, on my side I do like it better because that gives you freedom in how you want to approach capturing a region. I got way more than enough squads just playing the game naturally, and before capturing a region I usually went in with a chopper or tank to destroy all the assets I could find (usually in parallel to doing the region-specific operation) just for the fun of blowing stuff up.
You also get mods for the grappling hook which are a fun idea, though a bit cumbersome to set up and use.
You do however feel that the game was a bit rushed, with expedited story lines and features, and a few bugs to overcome (like having to properly set processor affinity every time the game is launched, or fast travel displaying actual keybinds but still using original keybinds). Still very fun to play though!
DLCs are a mixed bag:
* Dare Devils is a hit or miss, I feel. I personally liked it because it's driving around blowing stuff up and that's my thing in Just Cause. If you dislike vehicle handling and physics in JC you might not have a good time though.
* Los Demonios is a great idea but terrible execution. Everything about it was frustrating gameplay to me, starting with the fact you can't use vehicles at all in that DLC which is a huge turn off for me. Add to that a constant supply of flying pestering enemies that suicide-explode on you and tanks blasting you off the sky and you get a frustrating combat experience.
* Danger Rising was okay. It's driving around blowing stuff up so I can't complain. I disliked the DLC vehicle (hoverboard) so your mileage may vary depending on that, especially since it adds hoverboard races which were among my worst experiences in that game. Endless respawning enemies is more or less okay, not so when there are many AA turrets around that you can't destroy with respawning enemies constantly going back to man them.
Overall: I wanted to blow stuff up, JC4 gave me stuff to blow up, I was happy. Less good than JC3, still a great game.

It's a great game, shame there's a lot of bugs and crashes, and no more patches.

This game is fun and disappointing at the same time.

Good:
* Beautiful Explosions
* Fun casual game play
* Very fun glider + jet dlc
* The game looks better in terms of graphics
* The story is not bad, no wow factors though.
* Compared to 3 the 4's combat shooting game play on enemies are not as "bullet spongey" as before.

Bad:
* Downgrade on the art style. The vibrant colors of just cause 3 was better.
* Downgrade on the progression system, Just cause 3 was better.
* A little rough on the new learning curve of the menus and A.I, they used 1 button as a menu. Its bad.
* The game direction for people who want to focus on main missions first is confusing sometimes.
* There are glitches sometimes, the friendlies A.I are bad.

Just Cause 4 was a bit improved compared with the previous game.
But still it wasn't amazing, atleast not if you play it on mouse & keyboard. The control of bikes, planes is pretty horrible. But I can appreciate the fact that the wingsuit was way more enjoyable on keyboard compared with Just Cause 3.

In the beginning I hated that they removed liberations and the challenges seem pretty hard, but after a few hours I started to LOVE the new challenges. In this one you have a lot of towns / military bases and in each you have 2 - 7 challenges, depends how bit the location is.

+ Wingsuit was improved and much controllable.
+ Challenges revamped which made the game even more fun, no more leaderboards.
+ Pretty interesting weapons and enemies.
+ Garland, Sargento & Javi your new buddies asking you to do different jobs for them, and complete all their taks was interesting.
+ The Graphic was improved a bit, probably a new engine but this will go on CONS aswell and you'll see why.
+ New tools, grapling hook that can tether in 2 points and lift stuff, the baloon tool was interesting and we have some boost tools but i never used it.
+ The story was pretty good and theres a big chance that you'll get attached a lot of characters. They were well done.

- Graphics are improved but in same time made some characters to look dead inside. Bulgy eyes and no light behind them.
- I encountered some problems with the water. Most of times when I plunge into water game fully crash and get some weird error.
- The game needs to be set in Full Screen and 50 FPS otherwise on a mission where you have to go underwater for some generator the game will crash non stop if you are not locked on 50 FPS.
- During game I plunged into water from helicopters and with cars and the bug reappeared even with 50 FPS locked.
- With new engine the hair and the character details sometimes looked weird.
- When you fully finish the game, they dont show on map everything, so you'll have to waste a lot of hours to search for hidden towns if you wanna make all stunt challenges.

I played this game on my YouTube channel took me 30 episodes and a total of 43 hours, 7 minutes, 13 seconds, and I didn't made it 100%. Still missed a good portion of challenges and all those Rampage races + 11 statues for Javi.

The game is good and I recommend it, is worth playing and offer a lot of content if you want to waste lots of hours to complete everything.

P.S.: YouTube in Steam bio if you are interested.
Happy gaming!

I actually enjoyed this game. Why? Because it was the first just cause game i played. You liking the game matters in what order you play the games. For example, if you beat Just Cause 3 and then Just Cause 4, you probably won't like Just Cause 4. But if you play Just Cause 4 first, then you will probably like it. Now the game is very fun as there are so many things to do, like loading a bunch of vehicles in a cargo jet and jumping out of it with a vehicle, and many other things. One issue that i noticed is that some missions(not many), follow the same scheme, and they get boring over time. One aspect that i also like is that the game doesn't require a lot of skill so it's not rage inducing. Overall, i really enjoyed the game and am sad that it was not well received by the community. 10/10. THIS IS MY OPINION. PLEASE DON'T HATE ON ME.