Free-roaming games are getting insanely popular lately. With the GTA franchise, it opened up a whole new way of playing our games, experiencing the environments, and generally mucking about and having fun, even on your lonesome. The traditional format is you use this environment to get to your missions, and generally then use this environment to get to your missions and do them, with police chasing after you.
Just Cause 5 could be a turning point for the franchise. Here are five things Avalanche Studios could do to keep Just Cause fresh.
Avalanche Studios' open-world franchise is due to make its next-gen debut, as the franchise is ripe with potential for a comeback.
I dunno man, 4 kinda sucked compared to 3 personally, i do wish they would take on a Mercenaries sequel though
Not sure if the IP still exists anywhere, or who owns it now, but yes, that would be an awesome idea. Pandemic studios did a few good games before they got closed by EA in 2009. The Saboteur is still a go to game of mine. Mercenaries 3: No Limits was one of the cancelled games we all missed out on.
yeah my thoughts as well, loved #3 but #4 was pretty meh just nowhere near as much fun, felt like a grind
I think the game needs a reboot.
Same save the island situation since the first. Each iteration feels mostly a tech upgrade.
They're busy working on Contraband, a new IP. I like Just Cause but they don't need to pump them out one after another. Mad Max showed they're far more than a one trick pony, so just let them do what they want to do.
They have two studios, so i hope the other is working on something cool. Hell i'd be psyched for a mad max sequel honestly.
In an interview with Wassup Conversations, Mikael Säker writer of such games like Battlefield 3,4,1 and The Darkness, talks about a cancelled steampunk open-world game in an alternative history of the 1950s of London. The game was in production at Avalanche Studios, the developer behind Just Cause games but it was cancelled due to economical crisis of the studio at the time. More about the game in the link.
"That was not fun. I think they had to let the half of the studio go, over a night because of the economic collapse. The publisher cancelled all their games except one, and it was a big publisher. But had been working on this awesome open-world game set in an alternative reality version of 1950s. It was insane! We had a huge this huge version of London that looked spectacular. We didn't have skyscrapers, but we had, like inverted heights, so the city grew downwards, to the ground. You could fly ziplines, airships, planes and jump down to these really, really deep holes in the middle of the city. So it was visually, and world-building wise spectacular and It had some really great gameplay ideas." Unfortunately, the game was cancelled because it needed another two years of development during those hard times of Avalanche.
Why do we miss out on such gems?
"steampunk open-world game in an alternative history of the 1950s of London."
That sounds awesome, and of course it's cancelled. *Sigh*
Looks interesting. Microsoft or Sony could help (€€€) with this game's development.
BTW, wouldn't mind a Mad Max sequel from Avalanche.
It sucks when games get canceled especially if they’re bringing something unique to the market.
Yeah they scrapped this and then made just cause 4 and probably 5 which are getting worse and a step back in every new entry that releases.. just cause 4 was an abomination the only good game this company has made in recent times is mad max and just cause 2 was pretty good for the time
It's not too bad considering this is Avalanche studios first game. I think the game would have been nicer if they hadn't bothered with the ps2 or xbox versions. Hopefully they got some good experience out of this and we'll see their games improve with their next try.
Love this game!
I really loved the demo, thought the graphics were awesome, especially for such a large world. I'm just going to rent this though, free-roaming games are fun for a while, but I can't justify a purchase without some online functionality. I agree, it would be nice to have seen this as a 360 exclusive, but I guess Avalanche wanted to expand their market to the xbox and ps2; afterall, they are a new company with little or no money.