Just Cause 3 Coming To Current Gen Next Year

<p>After months of rumour and speculation&comma; Avalanche Studios has officially announced Just Cause 3&period; Game Informer revealed the game via the cover for their December issue&period; The game takes place on a fictional Mediterranean island and Rico Rodriguez returns as the protagonist&period;  Its predecessor&comma; Just Cause 2&comma; sold over 6 million copies so it&&num;8217&semi;s not hard to see why Avalanche chose to make another sequel&period; Some screenshots from the game which leaked last week seemed to suggest that the open world title would have microtransactions&period; However&comma; the studio has been quick to deny this&period; Co-founder Christofer Sundberg explained the situation in a blog post&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<section class&equals;"">&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Those leaked screenshots were taken from an ancient version of Just Cause 3&period; Like most games&comma; this one went through an exploratory phase where we looked at different control schemes&comma; different technologies&comma; different business models&period; Those leaked screenshots show aspects of that process&comma; and in no way reflect the game we are making today&period;It will be distributed as a retail box and digital download&period; It is not a Free To Play game&period; It does not feature in-game micro-transactions&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8221&semi;Does that mean we&&num;8217&semi;ll release the game and call it quits&quest; Nope&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he added&period; &&num;8220&semi;Beyond launch&comma; we are likely to look into DLC packs and items as part of our ambition to support Just Cause 3 and its players for many years to come&comma; but until that time we&&num;8217&semi;re completely focused on making the best Just Cause game we possibly can&period; Rest assured it will be a huge&comma; fully packed and extremely rewarding experience right out of the gate&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Just Cause 3 will launch in 2015 for Xbox One&comma; PlayStation 4 and PC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2014-11-11-just-cause-3-has-finally-been-officially-announced">Eurogamer<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;section>&NewLine;