History VideoGame / JustCause3

** The mech and sea heist DLCs, which are about the Black Hand organisation, unlocks before the base game missions where the Black Hand start showing up, making a conversation Rico has about who they are peculiar since he'd dealt with them twice already before.
*** Also regarding the DLCs, canonically the timeline of them are the airship, the mech land assault, and finally the Bavarium sea heist. You can do them in any order, but the finale of the mech DLC has a teaser where the Black Hand heads to the location of the sea heist, which seems odd if you've cleared out that place and done that story already.

* AsHimself: According to Creator/DavidTennant, he's actually playing himself in the game. In-game, the voice claims to be a kidnapped celebrity.

* DungeonBypass: Destruction Frenzy challenges are built around you causing as much damage as possible to a base with a specific weapon. But since the game makes no difference between damage caused by it or say, that powerful attack helicopter that also happens to spawn at the same base. Most of them tend to become a case of SelfImposedChallenge.

* EliteMooks: The Black Hand mooks come in three flavors; the Aegis is an elite infantry unit armed with a big rifle and armor that lets them take far more of a beating than Medici's finest. The Ghost is a nimble bastard, capable of evading Rico's gunfire while returning in kind with twin [=SMGs=]. The Titan wears heavy armor and requires several headshots to take down, if you can get through the withering barrage of lead from their minigun. The Black Hand as a whole speak in heavily filtered Australian/South African accents, have glowing red visors and have been loaned Medici Military equipment.

* OrangeBlueContrast: The developers [[WordOfGod have stated in interviews]] that they kept this trope in mind while designing Medici - the game's sunburned marquis shrublands, wheat fields, sandstone cliffs, and orange gabled roofs contrast with the blue oceans and skies. [[SceneryPorn Judging by the screenshots]], it's a great example of [[TropesAreNotBad tropes not being bad]].

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: For PC players. In ''Just Cause 2'', right mouse button throws grenades and F fires the grappling hook... and in ''Just Cause 3'', right mouse button fires the grappling hook and F throws grenades, which can easily result in [[HoistByHisOwnPetard a lot of blowing yourself up]] (or at least wasting grenades). Fortunately, the settings can be remapped to whatever buttons you want in the controls menu.

* AppliedPhlebotinum: Bavarium is an ore only found on Medici, and while it shares [[StuffBlowingUp some properties]] with fissile materials, it has some other properties when refined, such as creating DeflectorShields and [[spoiler: making an AI become sentient]].

* GreaterScopeVillain: The Black Hand is mentioned in the ''Mech Land Assault'' DLC to have been around since Rico was operating in San Esperito in JC1.

* LastLousyPoint: Several Of the vehicles you need to find for Mario's garages can count.
** The Squalo X7. It is the fastest boat that only spawns in two bodies of water, both of which are landlocked. In addition, the boat itself is so heavy that even while using all 6 tethers with the maximum strength and the most powerful helicopter, the boat can easily snap all of them if you aren't very careful with your piloting.

** The Nashorn 6100. A giant mining truck that while not exactly hard to find, spawns really far from any garage, moves extremely slowly, and is so large it takes up the entire road. This makes it almost impossible to not run over some soldier along the way and cause them to start attacking you. And while the truck [[FoeTossingCharge can easily plow through anything they can throw at it vehicle vice]], there is a limit to how much damage it can take and bringing it to a garage in one piece requires a lot of luck.
** The Weimaraner Z80. The civilian version Of the 4*4 that you constantly blow up only spawns on two remote small islands that you have absolutely no business being on. Finding them is a borderline GuideDangIt.

* {{EMP}}: The focus of the second act are EMP devices that can counteract Bavarium shields, and the Rebellion's attempts to acquire one. Notably, the game inverts the [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality Acceptable Break from Reality]] of making the EMP temporary in effect: vehicles hit with the EMP blasts actually catch fire and ''[[EveryCarIsAPinto explode]]''.

* LastLousyPoint:
** The Squalo X7. It is the fastest boat that only spawns in two bodies of water, both of which are landlocked. In addition, the boat itself is so heavy that even while using all 6 tethers with the maximum strength and the most powerful helicopter, the boat can easily snap all of them.

* {{Unobtanium}}: Di Ravello's plans for {{world domination}} hinge on "a miraculous ore called Bavarium", which, according to the devs, has "very explosive and weirdly magnetic" properties, and is only found in Medici. It is, at turns, shown to be an explosive, a form of energy, and also a shield generator. One promotional video even called it a form of unobtanium.

** Nobody knows what [=FOW=] stands for. It is a collection of Bavarium-powered superweapons,

* FunWithAcronyms: The low-rent {{mooks}} that come after you at low heat levels are from the Di Ravello Militia, and bear the acronym of [[UsefulNotes/{{DRM}} D.R.M.]] on their cars.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Supporting character Dimah appears to suffer from some form of [[{{UsefulNotes.Autism}} autism]], or a very mild [[{{UsefulNotes.AspergersSyndrome}} Asperger's syndrome]]. She is brilliant, but has extreme tunnel vision for her Bavarium research and preventing it being used to hurt people, does not come off as very sociable, speaks in short terse sentences, and shows a lack of tact for sensitive subjects like people getting hurt by her experiments or in missions, yet no one gives her grief for that and everyone is very protective of her like they know she can't help it.

The next game in the series, ''VideoGame/JustCause4'', is slated for release on December 4, 2018.

'''''Just Cause 3''''' is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Creator/AvalancheStudios and published by Creator/SquareEnix. It was announced on November 11, 2014. It is the third game in the ''VideoGame/JustCause'' series and is the sequel to the 2010 video game ''Just Cause 2''. It was released on December 1, 2015 for Microsoft Windows, [[UsefulNotes/Playstation4 PS4]] and UsefulNotes/XboxOne.

The next game in the series, Just Cause 4, is slated for release on December 4th, 2018.

The next game in the series, Just Cause 4, has been announced at [[UsefulNotes/ElectronicEntertainmentExpo E3]] on June 11th, 2018. It is slated for release on December 4th, 2018.

* VillainousBreakdown: General Di Ravello at first considers Rico more of a novelty to test his army against. It's only after Rico destroys his Bavarium bomb that he starts ranting and raving, even beating one of his own soldiers to death. [[spoiler:After being defeated in the final fight, he goes on a megalomanical rant about how no one can kill him, and provided that Rico hasn't shot him by that point will proceed to throw himself into lava]].

* VillainousBreakdown: General Di Ravello at first considers Rico more of a novelty to test his army against. It's only after Rico destroys his Bavarium bomb that he starts ranting and raving, even beating one of his own soldiers to death.

** Heck, even the promotional materials have "fire" in them one way or another. Apart from the "Set the World on Fire" slogan and the "Burn It" title of the aforementioned trailer, the three songs used in the trailers are "'''Fire'''starter" by the Prodigy, "'''Fire'''" by Kasabian and "Hipster Shakes"… by Black Pistol '''Fire'''.

** Heck, even the promotional materials have "fire" in them one way or another. Apart from the "Set the World on Fire" slogan and the "Burn It" title of the aforementioned trailer, the three songs used in the trailers include "'''Fire'''starter" by the Prodigy, "'''Fire'''" by Kasabian and "Hipster Shakes"… by Black Pistol '''Fire'''.

* PyroManiac: According to a dev interview and "Burn It!" trailer, Di Ravello is ''just a liiittle'' obsessed with fire. The cutscene setting in which he appears even features a bowl of fire, and he likes to pepper his speeches with fire-related allusions and metaphors.