Just Cause 4 Day 1 Edition - PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4

This game has great graphics. You have many vehicle and weapon selections to choose from as your arson and a large area to play

Just Cause 4 is arguably the most fun 3rd person shooter just out of the sheer absurdness and chaotic nature of the game itself. Just go around and destroy everything in the most creative ways you can think of. Your tether now has tons of mods that you can add on so there are even more ways to destroy things in this game. There's really no story, just go out in the world and wreck havoc. The game is naturally repetitive. 'Go here and kill everybody and destroy everything, go here and kill everybody and destroy everything, go here and do it again x100'. It's fun at first as I've said, but it does get old fast. There's very little other gameplay aspects to this game. The wingsuit challenges are back (and are easier now, thank god. JC3's wingsuit challenges were infuriatingly hard), speed challenges and then there's these tomb challenges (obvious nod to Square Enix's other series, Tomb Raider) where you have these short little puzzle challenges to figure out. Nothing crazy but they're good for a quick change of pace. The controls are really good and feel really fluid. You can seamlessly switch from the grappling to the parachute to the wingsuit and back again and it makes traversing the world fun. The gun play and tether system is also really nice and easy to control. I feel like the vehicle mechanics have been improved. The cars are easier to handle. I know that was a big complaint with the last Just Cause. Apparently, this game was built on a whole new engine and it almost doesn't feel like it except when you look at the graphics. The graphics are pretty terrible. Most of the time, the game is so chaotic that you're not even paying attention to the graphics and they make no difference to the core gameplay itself. However, if you just stop and pan around with the camera while you're standing still. Oh my, this game is a blurry, pixelated mess. But like I said, you only really notice it when you're standing still and this game is not Red Dead Redemption 2 and you're not standing still very often. You'll most notice it during cutscenes which are just bad in general (it is Just Cause after all, it's not supposed to have a good story or engrossing cutscenes) but the cutscenes look like in early PS3 and that is no exaggeration. I mention graphics last because I'm not one to have graphics hold so much weight. It's totally aesthetic and does not effect the gameplay itself. I'm sure they'll patch it over time to make it look better. JC3 looked great but I remember it having some serious frame rate drops to the point where the game becomes a slide show. I don't know if they ever fixed that but something like that does hamper the gameplay experience. Luckily, JC4 doesn't have that but they severely downgraded the graphics to compensate in this new engine. It improves in some areas over JC3 while downgrading in other areas. I like all the modifications they added to the tethering system and the improved physics to allow to allow more craziness and creative destruction which is always good. I also like the huge and varied map. I don't like that the gameplay is still pretty stagnant and repetitive and the graphics could definitely be better.

Great game. I’ve been a fan of this particular series. Graphics and story line match up. Not too much story line.

Great game as usual, Tons of Gadgets, Vehicles, Weapons, & Things to Destroy. Large Open World map. It’s just as good if not better then Gta, mafia,ect…

I have enjoyed this franchise. This iteration is no different. However, while I enjoy the upgrades and numerous mods to the grappling hook, the mission redundancy is getting to me, slightly more than halfway through the campaign. If it wasn't for the ability to goof off creating various grapples and destroying every red thing in sight, I may be a lot less satisfied. As it is, I give it a solid 3.8 and would recommend it.