Just Cause 3 Won’t Be Fun With Friends Day One

<p>Avalanche Studios says that their third romp in the<em> Just Cause<&sol;em> franchise won&&num;8217&semi;t be a social one&comma; or at least for now&period; The Swedish developer confirmed that when <em>Just Cause 3<&sol;em> releases on PC and new-gen consoles&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;ll be sans multiplayer of any kind&period; So if your friends to join in the fun&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;ll only be because they&&num;8217&semi;re watching you sink a submarine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The news falls in line with 2010&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Just Cause 2&comma; <&sol;em>which also didn&&num;8217&semi;t ship with multiplayer support despite a group of fans&&num;8217&semi; best efforts to mod one into the game with the blessing of Avalanche and publisher Square Enix&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In an interview with Game Informer&comma; Avalanche co-founder Christofer Sundberg expressed his love for <em>Just Cause 2&&num;8242&semi;<&sol;em>s multiplayer mod&comma; but explained that official multiplayer support for its sequel would&&num;8217&semi;ve strained the developer&&num;8217&semi;s focus on forging a quality sandbox to exploit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p><em>The mod is absolutely fantastic&period; We owe those guys a lot&period; They have actually supported the game and helped it stay alive so many years after it was released&period; We don&&num;8217&semi;t expect the fans to make the multiplayer for Just Cause 3&comma; but at some point you have to make a choice on where your focus is&period; Our strength is the sandbox experience&comma; and we want to deliver a great Just Cause 3 experience&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Though <em>Just Cause 3<&sol;em> may not ship with official multiplayer support&comma; Sundberg hinted that a multiplayer mode could be added to the game after its release&comma; akin to how <em>Grand Theft Auto V<&sol;em> Online was launched in October 2013&comma; following the game&&num;8217&semi;s release a month prior&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Maybe sometime down the line we&&num;8217&semi;ll take Rico into the modern world of multiplaying&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Sundberg said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A multiplayer could very well be introduced to <em>Just Cause 3<&sol;em> through Square Enix&&num;8217&semi;s new cloud gaming initiative&comma; Shinra Technologies&period; Interestingly&comma; Game Informer reports that some of developers working on that project are set up inside Avalanche&&num;8217&semi;s office in New York City&comma; suggesting that the companies might be working together on something new for <em>Just Cause 3<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Shinra Technologies vice president of business Jacob Novak said one possibility that cloud gaming allows is to &&num;8220&semi;enhance&&num;8221&semi; games after their initial release&period; One example he provided was to introduce a multiplayer mode to a game that doesn&&num;8217&semi;t have it out of the box&&num;8230&semi;just like<em> Just Cause 3<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When asked directly if Shinra Technologies was working with Avalanche on a multiplayer mode&comma; Novak replied&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p><em>We&&num;8217&semi;re working on a possible future collaboration with Avalanche Studios&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>He added&comma; &&num;8220&semi;I think it does make a lot of sense&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With or without multiplayer&comma;<em> Just Cause 3<&sol;em> rolls up its sleeves for Xbox One&comma; Playstation 4&comma; and Windows PC next year with all the humor of the original and then some&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gameinformer&period;com&sol;b&sol;features&sol;archive&sol;2014&sol;11&sol;17&sol;will-just-cause-3-have-a-multiplayer-mode&period;aspx">GameInformer<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;