{"id":45034,"date":"2012-09-25T16:02:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T14:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=45034"},"modified":"2012-09-25T16:05:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T14:05:22","slug":"just-cause-creators-want-to-be-the-best-open-world-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/45034-just-cause-creators-want-to-be-the-best-open-world-developer","title":{"rendered":"Just Cause creators want to be &#8220;the best open world developer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just Cause series developer Avalanche Studios is in the business of making open-worlds, and the big plan is to make the best open-worlds that the rest of the world has ever seen. The best worlds&#8230; the world&#8230; has ever seen. Like one of those recursive mirror images that make your brain hurt, but with more guns, explosions and unremitting chaos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are set on becoming the best open world developer. That&#8217;s our ultimate goal,&#8221; Avalanche boss Christofer Sundberg told Eurogamer. &#8220;It&#8217;s a very competitive genre. Rockstar is more of a phenomenon than a competitor. What we can offer to the genre is diversity, which very few other open world developers can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Released back in 2010 to critical acclaim, Just Cause 2 was hailed by some (and <a title=\"Just Cause 2 review\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/5841-just-cause-2.html\">not others<\/a>) as the best open world game to date, although &#8211; significantly &#8211; it lacked a multiplayer component. This was recently introduced to the game via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jc-mp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">a community-made mod<\/a> that supports over 1000 players at a time. But maybe that was better left to the community anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What the guys have done now with the multiplayer mod is fantastic, and it completely came out of left field. So we have them to thank for a lot. It&#8217;s even too crazy for Just Cause. If we had done it it would have been more planned. Since it&#8217;s a mod, it&#8217;s just like DayZ, they can get away with a lot, which we wouldn&#8217;t be able to unfortunately as a developer,&#8221; explained Sundberg.<\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s not yet been announced, Just Cause 3 is <a title=\"Just Cause domains registered\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/38118-just-cause-domains-registered-are-sequels-are-on-their-way.html\">rumoured to be in development<\/a> already for next-gen consoles and PC.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2012-09-25-avalanche-just-cause-2-multiplayer-mod-means-series-has-even-brighter-future\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Just Cause 2 review\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/5841-just-cause-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Just Cause 2 review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39905-just-cause-2-multiplayer-could-be-the-best-thing-ever.html\">Just Cause 2 multiplayer mod could be the best thing ever<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/38118-just-cause-domains-registered-are-sequels-are-on-their-way.html\">Just Cause domains registered \u2013 are sequels are on their way?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Games you can play this week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/45008-games-you-can-play-this-week-22.html\" target=\"_blank\">Games you can play this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avalanche on taking the world by storm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":38121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,3776,4413,3269,5101,5102],"class_list":["post-45034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-avalanche-studios","tag-just-cause","tag-just-cause-2","tag-just-cause-2-mod","tag-just-cause-2-multiplayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45039,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45034\/revisions\/45039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}