My original vision for the game was really simple. Who cares, then, if he has a parachute that goes in and out of his back, if he shoots an infinite cord from his arm, if he jumps in and out of cars like a rubber man? It’s Just Cause! Rico is really the ultimate action hero and even though our worlds are realistic, Rico can do things most action heroes only dream of. We’ve inspired developers to have their games less grounded in reality, because the opposite is so much fun. I also think Just Cause is important to the open-world genre, and I know that we have inspired a few games to let go a bit of that seriousness. With all its playfulness, colorfulness, and ultimate freedom, the game is a perfect metaphor for how we run Avalanche Studios. The way we approach game design, the way we work in our studio, how we are physically seated a lot of that comes from the philosophy behind designing Just Cause.

Just Cause is so much more than a game to me.

Three years later, Just Cause was released and we are now celebrating a decade of chaos. That’s the phrase that we used when we originally presented our first Just Cause game concept and design for the team at Eidos back in 2003.

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