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Just Cause
75 Score
Action · Shooter

Just Cause

Avalanche Studios  /  September 22, 2006  /  Rated Mature

Data last updated August 25, 2026

Released

2006

Publisher

Square Enix

Time to beat

~1 hrs

Community

4,149

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System Requirements (PC) ↓
Minimum:
  • Microsoft Windows® 2000/XP. (Windows® 95/98/ME/NT not supported)
  • Pentium IV 1.4GHz (or AMD AthlonXP 1700+ processor or higher).
  • 256MB System Memory.
  • 3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required - 100% DirectX® 9.0c compatible with 128 MB and Shader model 2.0. (GF FX 5700 or ATI 9500)
  • 100% DirectX® 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card and latest drivers
  • 4.0GB of uncompressed free disk space (plus 600MB for Windows® 2000/XP swap file)
  • 100% Windows® 2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers.
Recommended:
  • Pentium® IV 2.8GHz with Dual Core Technology (or Athlon 64 series).
  • 512MB System Memory.
  • 3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required - 100% DirectX® 9.0c compatible with 256 MB and Shader model 2.0. All nVidia® GeForce™ 7 series or higher.
  • Sound Blaster® X-Fi series or higher.
Optimal:
  • Pentium® D Processor with Dual Core Technology (or Athlon 64 X2 series).
  • 1GB System Memory.
  • All nVidia® GeForce™ 7800 series or higher.
  • Sound Blaster® X-Fi series or higher.

Grand Theft Auto-like Just Cause features a unique setting and the ability to literally destroy everything.

Play as Rico Rodriguez, CIA agent that on a mission to topple the dictator’s rule in one small tropical island San Esperito.Agent Rodriguez can count on the help from fellow colleagues from the agency: Tom Sheldon and Maria Kane.

The game features non-linear gameplay and fully open world with more than 1000 square kilometres of tropical jungle, sandy beaches and cities to explore. There are 21 story missions and more than 300 side quests to complete in the singleplayer campaign. Just Cause uses Avalanche Engine that allows recreating detailed landscapes and more than 80 ways to travel around San Esperito via land, air and water: at player disposal bikes, cars, boats, submarines, helicopters and planes. Rico can perform stunts with any of them, jump to another car or use parachute while on the roof.

Just Cause is an action-adventure video game series created by Avalanche Studios. Originally published by Eidos Interactive and after 2009 by Square Enix's External Studios. The series consists of Just Cause, Just Cause 2, Just Cause 3, and Just Cause 4. The games are open world and take place in islands and archipelagos. Each game in the series tasks the player to overthrow the governing body of the game's setting. By May 2019, the series had shipped over 26 million copies worldwide.

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