You’ll be jumping in and out of the map fairly regularly too, whether to look at what needs blowing up next, using the fast travel system, or requesting a supply drop. It’s in here that you can tinker with your own personal loadouts, and in particular it’s your grappling hook you’ll likely be messing around with the most. The menus aren’t the most intuitive out there, and strangely laggy to boot. Performance is a much steadier 30fps because of this, even when near some of the major weather events in full force, but the combination of motion blurring and shimmering aliasing is a very noticeable tradeoff. ![]() Having primarily reviewed on PC, our preliminary testing suggests that the original PS4 scales all the way down to 720p on a lot of occasions, even when not much is going on, while the PS4 Pro often only musters around 1080p. It’s a different story on console, where they trade resolution and graphical quality for a more stable frame rate. This time out performance is much improved, at least on a suitably sturdy PC, and even during the most extravagant moments of weather-based mayhem it holds relatively steady. In fact, where Just Cause 3 fell down was in its own ambition, with the game engine creaking under the strain of everything Avalanche put into the game. They might not be quite the game-changer that Avalanche intend them to be, but they’re certainly exhilarating, impressive displays of the game that Just Cause has become. Remarkably it holds together despite the strain of full lightning storms, tropical hurricanes and tornadoes filling the screen while attempting to rip you and the landscape apart. Each of Solis’ four distinct terrain biomes plays host to its own spectacular set of extreme weather that pushes the Apex engine further than ever before. The other major new addition is the introduction of weather effects. It’s a shame then that barring a couple of examples there’s no real narrative drive to force you to make use of these physics-based toys if you don’t want to, and there’ll be plenty of people who miss out on the wealth of possibilities that Avalanche have dropped in their lap. It ranges from lifting explosives into the air, speeding them across a ravine and then letting them fall on an unsuspecting target, to creating an airborne tank that’ll rain destruction from the sky… or spiral uncontrollably into space if you’ve put too many thrusters on it. ![]() It’s here that the most creative players will have no end of fun, tinkering with the millions of combinations as you look for new ways to cause destruction. Within these are now granular options to alter the strength or speed of each attachment so you can find just the right ridiculous tool for the job. These range from attachable balloons that you can use to lift things out of – or into – the way, to the returning thrusters that you can now stick on nearly anything with your hook to help shoot them across the map. The new grappling hook upgrades give you twice as many things to play around with as you’re unleashing mayhem, and you can switch between multiple loadouts so you’re constantly in control. Those are compliments that you could also level at Just Cause 3, but this latest adventure has a few key improvements over its forebear. It’s hilariously stupid, grin-inducing stuff, and few games can come remotely close to its hyper-stylised take on guerrilla warfare. ![]() ![]() You can easily destroy an entire enemy facility all on your lonesome, dropping in from a dying helicopter that inevitably falls onto something explosive, causing a cascade of fiery death as you plummet to earth with your wingsuit before opening your parachute at the last minute and filling all of the remaining evil henchmen with righteous lead as you daintily land on your feet. The level of empowerment that Just Cause 4 affords you as a player is incomparable, and the phrase ‘one-man army’ has never been truer. There are few things as satisfying in gaming as Rico’s grappling hook/parachute/wingsuit combo and by utilising all three you’ll be able to zip about the map with instant Twitch-ready style.
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