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We Nearly Got A Just Cause Sequel, But It Wouldn't Have Been By The Same Developer

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Lucas

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Square Enix confirmed in 2022 that a Just Cause sequel was in development.
However, accorfding to a former Sumo Digital employee, it was cancelled in 2023.
It's unclear what the future of the series looks like now, but Universal Pictures does at least have a film adaptation in the works.

In 2018, Square Enix released the hotly anticipated 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Just Cause 4, following on from the iconic mayhem of its predecessors. Unfortunately, however, it failed to match the heights of JC2 or JC3 as critics labelled it "dated" and "dull", a sentiment clearly shared by players as it♔ failed to recoup development costs.

In the seven years since, not much has been said about the series, but Square Enix did confir𒁏m that a sequel was in development back in 2022, though it appears to have been cancelled.

As reported by , a former Sumo Digital employee listed that they were the 'Vehicle Features Team Lead' on Just Cause𓆏 5 for two years, but the pr♛oject was "cancelled" in 2023, leaving the future of the series in flux.

Just Cause 5 Wouldn't Have Been An Avalanche Game

Rico Rodriguez grappling onto water tower in Just Cause 2.

What's interesting here is that they claim Just Cause 5 was in development at Sumo Digital, when the series👍 has historically been helmed by Avalanche.

However, that does li🎶ne up with from 2021, which called for a senior game designer to work on "the next game in an established AAA open-world action franchise", which could easily have been Just Cause.

We've heard nothi🦋ng in the years since, but if the project was cancelled,𒉰 that's hardly surprising.

Square Enix Is Still Interested In Just Cause

Rico Rodriguez on the cover of Just Cause 4 looking over a plains where a tornado is raging. — via Avalanche

While it might paint a bleak future for the series, it's worth noting that Square Enix isn't done with Just Cause just yet. Last year, Universal Pictures announced a film adaptation, with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Blue Beetle director Ángel Manuel Soto taking the reins.

Just earlier this year, Jack Ry🐭an writer Aaron Rabin was tapped t🍰o pen the script.

At the very least, it shows that Square Enix still places value in the Just Cause IP. Whether that means a sequel is in development, however, isn't clear. It's safe to assume that Sumo Digital isn't involved anymore, given that Tencent acquired Sumo Group in 2022. Avalanche could return for the sequel, bu൩t right now, that also seems un🗹likely.

Avalanche is currently working on a new IP published by Xbox Game Studios called Contraband. Announced thre♈e years ago, it centres around "what a co-op smuggler's paradise would look like" in the '70s.

It also hဣa✨s an "unannounced [open-world] AAA project" in the works, which was hiring for new staff in 2022, when Sumo Digital would have already been developing Just Cause. So, it's probably not Jus🧔t Cause. Who might take over the series, then, if Square Enix is even interested in a sequel, we'll just have to wait and🌳 see.