History YMMV / JustCause3

** The Online Leaderboards. As soon as the game loses connection, the game pauses and asks you whether you want to try and reconnect or if you want to play offline. Can't connect online anymore for whatever reason? You're forced to repeat the choice until you get back to the servers. Want to play offline? Yeah, that's a good fix... until you open up your Commlink (which you ''will'' do to find missions, side missions and collectibles) and then the game tries and reconnects ''without asking''! ''[[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave And there's no option to turn it off!]]'' (Save disconnecting your console from the Internet.)

* MagnificentBastard: General Di Ravello. He may be pure evil, but as his audio diaries show he is a scarily brilliant manipulator, methodically planning his rise to power and tricking everyone.

* CompleteMonster: [[TheGeneralissimo General Sebastiano Di Ravello]] is the brutal dictator of Medici, as well as a sociopathic {{pyromaniac}}. Having usurped Medici's democratic politician Rosa Maunuela, in addition to starting a civil war, in which he had President Dante ripped limb from limb, Di Ravello also uses forced labor to mine the magnetic and explosive element of bavarium, to make super weapons for world domination; it is implied he wishes to do this to satisfy his pyromaniac needs. It is also revealed he was behind the coup that killed Rico Rodriguez's parents, as part of a deal he made with the Agency. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment When introduced]], he orders one of his men to kill themselves for failing to stop the rebels, before ordering his army to raze the liberated town of Costa Del Porto. He later has Dimah tortured for not mining bavarium fast enough. When he has a a bavarium missile built, he decides to test it by launching it on another town. Exasperated by Rico's interfering with his plans, he beats one of his men to death and orders another attack and calls for the assassination of Manuela. Even when defeated, he has no remorse for his actions, only lamenting the end of his empire before deciding it's only fitting his legacy "ends in flames".

* CompleteMonster: [[TheGeneralissimo General]] Sebastiano [[BigBad Di Ravello]] is the brutal dictator of Medici, as well as a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] {{pyromaniac}}. Having usurped Medici's democratic politician Rosa Manuela, he started a civil war, in which he had President Dante ripped limb from limb, Di Ravello also uses forced labor to mine the magnetic and explosive element of bavarium, to make super weapons for world domination; it is implied he wishes to do this to satisfy his pyromaniac needs. It is also revealed he was behind the coup that killed [[PlayerCharacter Rico Rodriguez]]'s parents, as part of a deal he made with the Agency. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment When introduced]], he orders one of his men to kill themselves for failing to stop the rebels, before ordering his army to raze the liberated town of Costa Del Porto. He later has Dimah tortured for not mining bavarium fast enough. When he has a bavarium missile built, he decides to test it by launching it on another town. Exasperated by Rico's interfering with his plans, he beats one of his men to death and orders another attack and calls for the assassination of Manuela. Even when defeated, he has no remorse for his actions, only lamenting the end of his empire before deciding it's only fitting his legacy "ends in flames".

** The M488, [[EleventhHourSuperpower unlocked after the penultimate story mission,]] is a Bavarium-infused rocket launcher that is essentially a portable version of the warheads at Falco Maxime. The explosion it creates is ludicrously powerful, capable of obliterating pretty much anything in a single shot—an entire outpost can be razed to the ground with no more than two shots. Combine this with the Gear Mod that lets you carry twice as many rockets, and you're essentially a god among men while wielding it.

* CompleteMonster: [[TheGeneralissimo General]] Sebastiano [[BigBad Di Ravello]] is the brutal dictator of Medici, as well as a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] {{pyromaniac}}. Having usurped Medici's democratic politician Rosa Maunuela, he started a civil war, in which he had President Dante ripped limb from limb, Di Ravello also uses forced labor to mine the magnetic and explosive element of bavarium, to make super weapons for world domination; it is implied he wishes to do this to satisfy his pyromaniac needs. It is also revealed he was behind the coup that killed [[PlayerCharacter Rico Rodriguez]]'s parents, as part of a deal he made with the Agency. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment When introduced]], he orders one of his men to kill themselves for failing to stop the rebels, before ordering his army to raze the liberated town of Costa Del Porto. He later has Dimah tortured for not mining bavarium fast enough. When he has a bavarium missile built, he decides to test it by launching it on another town. Exasperated by Rico's interfering with his plans, he beats one of his men to death and orders another attack and calls for the assassination of Manuela. Even when defeated, he has no remorse for his actions, only lamenting the end of his empire before deciding it's only fitting his legacy "ends in flames".

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: [[ParodiedTrope Albeit used in a completely tongue-in-cheek manner]]. Rico can terrorize the citizens of Medici with reckless abandon...and they still cheer him on as their hero. At most, they'll make a slightly disdainful remark.
->'''Rico (after destroying an innocent's property)''': ''[[LampshadeHanging I should probably stop doing that]].''

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: [[RefugeInAudacity Albeit used in a completely tongue-in-cheek manner]]. Rico can terrorize the citizens of Medici with reckless abandon...and they still cheer him on as their hero. At most, they'll make a slightly disdainful remark.
->'''Rico (after destroying an innocent's property)''': ''I should probably stop doing that.''

* GameBreaker: The M488, [[EleventhHourSuperpower unlocked after the penultimate story mission,]] is a Bavarium-infused rocket launcher that is essentially a portable version of the warheads at Falco Maxime. The explosion it creates is ludicrously powerful, capable of obliterating pretty much anything in a single shot—an entire outpost can be razed to the ground with no more than two shots. Combine this with the Gear Mod that lets you carry twice as many rockets, and you're essentially a god among men while wielding it.

** The game feels like a major step back in the movement/combat departments; gone is the ability to sprint, crouch, combat dive, dual-wield different weapons and upgrade weapon capacity and damage.

** Also the jetpack unlocked in the "Air Assault" DLC. This changes the somewhat challenging wingsuit / wiregun / parachute gameplay to a jetpack with a recharging thruster and ''on-board weaponry'', to whit a guided missile launcher and a powerful minigun. There's barely any need to use vehicles after getting it, and it was heavily criticised in reviews of the DLC for rendering so many of the core gameplay mechanics utterly redundant.

* HypocriticalHumor: The game has a massive TakeThat in the form of the '''D'''i '''R'''avello '''M'''ilitia. The game also uses Steam as DRM, and it uses Denuvo (basically, DRM for DRM).

* MostAnnoyingSound: Di Ravello's speeches over speakers. When liberating a town, you'll probably end up wanting to pull those down first.

** The game feels like a major step back in the movement/combat departments; gone is the ability to sprint, crouch, combat dive, dual-wield different weapons and upgrade weapon capacities and damage.

* SoOkayItsAverage: A lot of people consider it this due to it not making many improvements over the second game (which brought a lot of improvements over the original), and in some areas being ''worse''. A big part of this also stems from the game releasing late in a year filled with open-world games.

* ScrappyMechanic: A fairly minor example. Early in the game, the only way to close the wingsuit is to either hit something or to deploy the parachute. It's not too bad except when you're wingsuiting and trying to jump onto a car or train. There are mods to fix this, but they all require a lot of gears to unlock.
** The Online Leaderboards. As soon as the game loses connection, the game pauses and asks you whether you want to try and reconnect or if you want to play offline. Can't connect online anymore for whatever reason? You're forced to repeat the choice until you get back to the servers. Want to play offline? Yeah, that's a good fix... until you open up your Commlink (which you ''will'' do to find missions, side missions and collectibles) and then the game tries and reconnects ''without asking''! ''[[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave And there's no option to turn it off!]]'' (save disconnecting your console from the Internet)
* SoCoolItsAwesome: The game's fans tend to have this opinion: Viewing this game as an EvenBetterSequel that fine tuned the famous grapple hook and parachute mechanics as well as integrating the wingsuit for even more fun. However...

* CompleteMonster: [[TheGeneralissimo General]] Sebastiano [[BigBad Di Ravello]] is the brutal dictator of Medici, as well as a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] {{pyromaniac}}. Having usurped Medici's democratic politician Rosa Maunuela, he started a civil war, in which he had President Dante ripped limb from limb, Di Ravello also uses forced labor to mine the magnetic and explosive element of bavarium, to make super weapons for world domination; it is implied he wishes to do this to satisfy his pyromaniac needs. It is also revealed he was behind the coup that killed [[PlayerCharacter Rico Rodriguez]]'s parents, as part of a deal he made with the Agency. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment When introduced]], he orders one of his men to kill themselves for failing to stop the rebels, before ordering his army to raze the liberated town of Costa Del Porto. He later has Dimah tortured for not mining bavarium fast enough. When he has a a bavarium missile built, he decides to test it by launching it on another town. Exasperated by Rico's interfering with his plans, he beats one of his men to death and orders another attack and calls for the assassination of Manuela. Even when defeated, he has no remorse for his actions, only lamenting the end of his empire before deciding it's only fitting his legacy "ends in flames".

** Even worse is the PC version for some users. Massive framerate drops, poor optimization, and glitches have plagued it since release on certain systems. Glitches include the ground suddenly becoming low-poly and water turning invisible.
** The [=PS4=] port has become abysmal regarding [[UpToEleven framerate issues]] as of Patch 1.03

* SoOkayItsAverage: A lot of people consider it this due to it not making much improvements over the second game (which brought a lot of improvements over the original), and in some areas being ''worse''. A big part of this also stems from the game releasing late in a year filled with open-world games.