We got many sequels of Just Cause game in the previous years and Avalanche Studios gave their best for every sequel. No doubt with every new sequel, they improved the gameplay and graphics with double efforts. But when it comes to story, games can be ranked from worst to best according to gamers’ reviews.
It was first released in September 2006 and gamers got introduced to a new type of open-world game where you can shoot, drive and glide with parachute while playing missions. Due to its unique gameplay style game got popular soon after launch.
In this article, we have looked over Just Cause game from 1st part to 4th and then gone through the review of users thoroughly to come to a conclusion while ranking. We have considered all the points which include gameplay, graphics, and the story of game.
You will find the Ranking of game from worst to best below with all the details:
Just Cause Best game ranking Starts here:
04. Just Cause
Why this Ranking: There are a lot of things that went wrong in Just Cause 1. When Playing missions, all of them were too repetitive with all the same enemy types. Graphics were not very convincing with many problems in the environment.
The unpolished gameplay made the game more disliked by players. But given the fact that it was 1st part of Just Cause, many gamers appreciated this new type of game with open hands.
Plot: Rico Rodriguez, an operative for an organisation known only as the “Agency,” is dropped into the Caribbean island nation of San Esperito to link up with his mentor and Agency superior, Tom Sheldon, and assist him in overthrowing San Esperito’s dictator, President Salvador Mendoza, who the Agency believes is in possession of weapons of mass destruction.
Rico joins up with Sheldon and fellow agent Maria Kane after his arrival, and the three form an alliance with a guerrilla organisation fighting both Mendoza and the Rioja drug cartel, which has expanded its activities throughout San Esperito by exploiting the regime’s corruption.
Rico’s efforts to destabilise Mendoza’s rule, eradicate the Black Hand soldiers recruited to persecute the people of San Esperito, and fight back against the cartels take up the majority of the game. Rico can also help liberate certain areas, further destabilising the government’s grip on the island.
Sheldon eventually finds that Mendoza does, in fact, manage WMDs, and with San Esperito no longer under his authority, the president is forced to retire to his own island off the coast. Sheldon and Kane fly Rico to the island to prevent him from utilising the weapons, prompting Mendoza to attempt a jet escape.
Rico, on the other hand, boards the plane and kills Mendoza and his surviving bodyguards, putting an end to Mendoza’s rule over the islands and allowing the Agency to collect the WMDs.
03. Just Cause 4
Why this Ranking: With continued story from 3rd part of game, the gameplay style is good and engaging for gamers. People loved how they introduced some new features to the game. But things went wrong in all other aspects of game.
The story of game felt so much basic with many flaws and errors. No doubt some parts of story got interesting but failed to impress on overall scale. In terms of graphics not good enough given the fact that it’s made specially for modern technology gaming consoles.
Plot: Following the events of Just Cause 3, Rico Rodrguez is approached by Mira Morales, a Sols resident, who claims that Rico’s father, Miguel Rodrguez, was working on the Illapa Project, a weather weapon used by Oscar Espinosa to control the people of Sols.
After a failed effort to depose Espinosa and a run-in with his private army, the Black Hand, commanded by Gabriela Morales, Rico teams up with Mira to establish the ‘Army of Chaos,’ with the goal of bringing down Project Illapa and putting an end to Espinosa’s rule.
He encounters Luis “Sargento,” an enthusiastic Army of Chaos leader; Izzy, a hacker; Garland King, a filmmaker fascinated with recording feats in Sols; and Javi along the way.
After Rico destroys the four weather cores and the Army seizes Espinosa’s main facility, Espinosa reveals that he has already produced a weather core that combines all four weather cores’ powers and intends to sell it to the Agency for billions of dollars.
As Espinosa takes off in a jet and the weather core prepares to strike both the Army and the Black Hand at his main base, Rico, along with Gabriela, who has turned against Espinosa after learning that he is sacrificing her army for his own gain, seizes control of the core and drives it into Espinosa’s jet, killing him and bringing an end to his regime.
02. Just Cause 3
Why this Ranking: This sequel of Just Cause was loved by all of the gaming community. It was a huge upgradation for fans from 2nd part of game with new features and playthrough opportunities. The best thing about this sequel is the way story is presented infront of players.
The graphics of game were so good and advanced for the year it was released. The character detailing and cut scenes looked amazing in this part of game.
Plot: Mercenary Rico Rodriguez returns to his hometown of Medici, a fictitious Mediterranean island kingdom that has come under the grip of a military dictatorship commanded by General Sebastiano Di Ravello, six years after the events of Just Cause 2. Rico sets out to defeat Di Ravello and his self-titled militia, the DRM, with an underground resistance organisation led by his oldest friend, Mario Frigo, in order to restore freedom to his people.
Rico reunites with another old buddy from his past, Dimah al-Masri, after helping Mario save his soldiers from full annihilation at the hands of the dictatorship. Di Ravello has been mining Bavarium, a rare mineral found only on Medici, so that he may use it to create the world’s most formidable armament, Dimah and her crew told Rico and Mario.
A few months later, the dictatorship sends a small navy out to sea to assassinate Mario and Dimah. Rico encounters Annika and Teo, a pair of South African smugglers waging their own battle against Di Ravello, while trying to save them. After Mario receives a grievous wound during the battle, Annika offers to join the rebels in return for Rico’s assistance in obtaining Di Ravello’s Imperators, tanks with Bavarium-powered protection shields.
They try one last time to overthrow Di Ravello by attacking his central command at Falco Maxime, where Dimah sacrifices herself to wipe out all knowledge of Bavarium. Di Ravello faces Rico in an active volcano, operating his own Urga Mstitel chopper, with his soldiers in disarray. Di Ravello is killed with a rifle or by jumping into lava after destroying the chopper.
01. Just Cause 2
Why this Ranking: It was one of the best game sequel where everything matched perfectly with gamers expectations. According to user reviews Just cause 2 and 3 are most popular games within series. Both game parts have a killer story line which keeps people entertained.
Not just story, the way missions are laid out makes Just Cause 2 best part out of all series. The gameplay is solid and does not feel any performance lags while playing. Overall it’s ranking is the best game out of all released.
Plot: Rico Rodriguez is dropped into Panau four years after Just Cause to track down his old handler Tom Sheldon, who is accused of turning rogue and aligning himself with the country’s tyrant Pandak Panay. Rico allies with the island’s three dominant criminal gangs and factions: the Roaches, the Reapers, and the Ular Boys, an ultranationalist rebel group that espouses traditionalism and opposes foreign influence, with the help of intelligence asset Karl Blaine and a weapons dealer only known as the Sloth Demon.
Sheldon then orders Rico to rush to his hideout, where Rico discovers that Panay’s military base has seized intelligence asset Jade Tan, who will be tortured and maybe executed. Despite Rico’s rescue and destruction of the facility, Jade is bundled onto a vehicle and a squadron of gunmen attempt to leave over a frozen lake. Rico hijacks the vehicle and Kane airlifts them to safety as a nuclear submarine erupts from the ice.
Panay flees the capital for his fortified military outpost shortly after the island is enveloped in chaos. Rico attacks the base with the help of a group he selects. Panay is slain in a murder-suicide by Karl Blaine during the attack.
With Panay killed, the situation in Panau devolves into a free-for-all as international governments vie for control of the oil. Russia, China, and Japan dispatch a fleet of supertankers to Panau, as the United States mobilises its armed troops to protect the island. Rico has been charged with repelling the supertankers until reinforcements arrive. Rico investigates and discovers Panay, who is alive but wounded. Finally, Rico ties Panay to the exposed core of the missile en route to the United States and reprograms the targeting computer before leaping to safety. The rocket alters course and explodes over Panau’s oilfields, killing Panay and wiping out the island’s oil wealth.
