Just Cause 4 will seemingly change the old explosive formula. While the first three
Just Cause games were focusing on a bombastic, not-stop action in colorful, foreign settings, the (still not officially announced) forth installment is heading into a darker direction. Square Enix's confirmation of the game's existence is just a formality as Walmart Canada created a placeholder for
Just Cause 4 a month ago and a Steam promo image featuring grim Rico Rodriguez popped onto the service earlier this week.
After leaking the first screenshots from
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, the Gematsu crew strikes back with
Just Cause 4's unofficial promotional artwork. It's hard to say that we're looking at screenshots here, considering that the images that you can check out down below are getting dangerously close to the "bullshot" category. As expected, the game has an open world, vehicles, a glider suit, and explosions.
What's more interesting, some of these "screenshots" and artwork feature extreme weather conditions and tornados. Avalanche Studios' experience gained during the development of
Mad Max are clearly doing wonders for the Swedish company, as their take on the
Rage series also contains gameplay mechanisms borrowed from the underappreciated post-apocalyptic sandbox game. Square Enix's E3 2018 conference will air on Monday, June 11 at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET. Take a look: