History Videogame / JustCause

* ''Just Cause Mobile'' (2021)

* AllThereInTheManual: Both games drops you right into the action with minimum plot explanation; the main character isn't even referred to by name, except in the opening cutscenes. Essentially all you're told is that you're an American partisan, here are the bad guys, go blow stuff up.

* EliteMooks: Both games have these. Just Cause 2 even keeps track of how many you kill. They take more damage and usually have more powerful weapons than their weaker friends. Get the Heat meter high enough and they'll start parachuting out of the sky around you!

* IslandBase: As both games take place on large archipelagos, there are a quite few of these.

* RuleOfCool: Both games are practically built around it.
** The absurd yet awesome endings of both games can be justified by this.

* TravelCool: Plenty of it, in both games. The Agency GP in the first game has a ''rocket launcher'' (and the rest of the Agency vehicles are pretty neat too), whilst the second game has the following CoolPlane, amongst others.

* ImprovisedWeapon[=/=]WhipItGood: Rico's melee attack is to extend the grapple line few yards and use it as a whip.

* HellishCopter: The game takes this trope [[UpToEleven and runs with it]]. You can literally daisy-chain helicopter hijackings with your grappling hook, as well as shoot them down with revolvers and assault rifles, and nobody ever says anything about [[CaptainCrash landing the aircraft you fly]] - so by the end of the game an average player has a count of downed helicopters numbering in the hundreds.

* UpToEleven: It's basically ''VideoGame/{{Mercenaries}}'' with an even bigger helping of RefugeInAudacity - albeit with much less in the airstrikes/building-flattening department. But hey, you've got a grappling hook gauntlet thing and a hyperspace parachute!

[[caption-width-right:350:The game's box [[SarcasmMode helpfully tells you]] why [[RampJump you can leap eighty feet in the air from the back of a motorbike.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:The game's box [[SarcasmMode helpfully tells you]] why [[CrazyAwesome you can leap eighty feet in the air from the back of a motorbike.]]]]

* ExplodingBarrels: The second game has these. Hilariously, because they belong to the government, you get rewarded for blowing them up. Of particular note are propane tanks, which when shot rocket into the sky. If you shoot one and quickly grapple onto it, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Kh7h-KDhQ you can use it to escape hairy situations by rocketing out of them]]. This is as CrazyAwesome as it sounds.

* ''VideoGame/JustCause1''
* ''VideoGame/JustCause2''
* ''VideoGame/JustCause3''
* ''VideoGame/JustCause4''

''Just Cause'' is a series of [[WideOpenSandbox open world]] action-adventure video games developed by Creator/AvalancheStudios. The series centers on the exploits of Rico Rodriguez, an operative working for the Agency (which is totally not the CIA), as he helps local guerrillas overthrow the [[BananaRepublic tyrannical regimes]] governing [[FictionalCountry fictional island nations]].

** this is one reason the [=PS2=] version of the first game was considered the worst of the bunch. Every other version has extremely lush visuals (even the original Xbox port) while the [=PS2=]'s were dull and limited by comparison. When part of the hype surrounding your game is the graphics, that's not exactly spelling out a recipe for success.

* PermanentlyMissableContent: The infamous "MV Command" vehicle is only guaranteed to spawn in a single, required mission[[note]]Agent Mission 4 if it matters[[/note]]. There is a faction missing it can show up in, and it can spawn at certain heat levels, but don't count on it. The Bering I-86DP plane, however, can ''only'' spawn on two specific airports, and is completely lost upon their destruction.

[[SimilarlyNamedWorks not to be confused]] with the early-2000s [[Series/JustCause Canadian TV series]], or with the [[Film/JustCause 1995 film]].

* UpToEleven: It's basically ''{{Mercenaries}}'' with an even bigger helping of RefugeInAudacity - albeit with much less in the airstrikes/building-flattening department. But hey, you've got a grappling hook gauntlet thing and a hyperspace parachute!

* WideOpenSandbox: All games take place in a large island. You can access all of it from the start. Sure, there are story missions, but who needs those when there are untold hundreds of villages to liberate, vehicles to steal, soldiers to kill, and tons of government property to be destroyed?

* TestosteronePoisoning: The series stars a OneManArmy who smashes through anything in his way (and some things that aren't) in ways which [[ArtMajorPhysics defy the laws of physics]] in hilarious ways. [[MadeOfExplodium Everything explodes -- including some things which logically shouldn't]]. Everything which bears even the slightest resemblance to subtlety is thrown out the window of a jet, whereupon it plummets earthward at nonsensical speeds until it connects with the earth, at which point it promptly assumes the general consistency of strawberry jam.

** The absurd yet awesome endings of both games can be justified by this. Go to CrowningMomentOfAwesome above and read those entries. Could you make up something that awesome if you tried?

* CutAndPasteEnvironments: Not too bad an offender since the map is huge and filled with many varied landscapes from sandy beaches and dense jungles to snowy mountains and arid deserts, but many buildings (such as lighthouses) are clearly reused several times. A more minor offender of this would be the government property Rico is always being sent to destroy. While military bases tend to have some variety in their layout expect to see countless fuel silos, generators and broadcast towers everywhere you go.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Soldiers will go at you guns blazing if you so much as walk into them.

''Just Cause 4'' has been [[https://www.pcgamer.com/just-cause-4-confirmed-thanks-to-early-steam-advertisement/ accidentally announced]] through a UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} ad. It was later confirmed during E3 2018, to be released on December 4th.

%%* ''VideoGame/JustCause4''

* DestructiveSavior: Rico. Theoretically he's there to free Panau (and San Esperito in the first game) from an oppressive government, but his modus operandi is literally to cause as much chaos as possible and assist any nearby crime syndicates. One of the most common ways to cause chaos is to blow up a village's ''water supply''.

* {{Expy}}: General Mendoza is a stand-in for multiple dictators from both sides of the Cold War including Augusto Pinochet and Fidel Castro.
** "Papa" Panay and Pandak "Baby" Panay, much like RealLife Haitan dictators [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duvalier François "Papa Doc" Duvalier]] and his son Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier. Pandak Panay's physical appearance and speech pattern also quickly call to mind depictions of Kim Jong-Il.

* TheJoysOfTorturingMooks
* LaResistance: Both San Esperito and Panau have rebel militias working to overthrow the government. They're not always very nice about it, though.

* WideOpenSandbox: Both games take place in over a thousand square kilometers of game world. You can access all of it from the start. Sure, there are story missions, but who needs those when there are untold hundreds of villages to liberate, vehicles to steal, soldiers to kill, and tons of government property to be destroyed?