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Just Cause 3 (PS4) Review

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THE SHORT VERSION It's mayhem, pure and simple. This isn't the poignant, epic quest that something like The Witcher 3  is, nor is it the kind of character-driven, 'shape the world your way' story of Fallout 4 . This is the kind of game where you make your own fun by derailing a pair of trains with limpet explosives before jumping into a plane, flying it at a satellite dish and hookshooting yourself onto an escaping jeep. Blow up all of the things. STORY After spending most of his career blowing things up for a living, former Agency Agent Rico Rodriguez returns to his home archipelago of Medici. The place has fallen under the dictatorial rule of General Di Ravello, the unholy bastard child of Caligula and Josef Stalin, and it falls to Rico to liberate Medici from its hated conquerors. So, basically, Rico now has to blow things up for a literal living, rather than just a financial one. Much like Just Cause 2 , the story here feels almost entirely vestigia...