

When Just Cause 4 works as advertised it’s an incredible show, marrying an explosion-filled open world and the stunts and gadgets of a Mission Impossible movie with truly awesome extreme weather systems. It would take me ten minutes and a ton of explosives to do what the storm has done in 30 seconds.

When the weather settles down, the enemy base is a wreck. Fuel tanks shred and explode in the gale, Black Hand vehicles and soldiers whip past in the wind – anything without concrete foundations is fair game for the storm. As I hunker down I can see the glimpses of the base’s disintegration through breaks in the dust. I struggle to run to shelter in the strong winds so grapple hook the short distance to a protective wall. The sky darkens and the air browns as the sandstorm comes in.
