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Just Cause 3: Bavarium Sea Heist

Bavarium Sea Heist is the third downloadable expansion pack for Just Cause 3. The events begin where the last mission of the Mech Land Assault left off, regardless of where the base-games storyline is at the…

30 18 August 2016

Just Cause 3: Bavarium Sea Heist is an adventure developed by Avalanche Studios, released 18 August 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Just Cause 3: Bavarium Sea Heist is

Just Cause 3: Bavarium Sea Heist is an adventure game developed by Avalanche Studios and released in 2016. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Bavarium Sea Heist is the third downloadable expansion pack for Just Cause 3. The events begin where the last mission of the Mech Land Assault left off, regardless of where the base-games storyline is at the moment. As with the other DLCs, once downloaded, it becomes unlocked after passing a few of the first storyline missions. This DLC pack takes place at sea, at the "Stingray Area" - a set of several enormous off-shore rigs where the eDEN Corporation once researched weather and electricity. The research base can control lightning and it's now controlled by the Black Hand who are using it for their "Global change project". It's up to Rico to stop them. In addition to a few missions…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Just Cause 3: Bavarium Sea Heist holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 38 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Just Cause 3: Bavarium Sea Heist launched on 18 August 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: No Man's Sky, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition.

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When did Just Cause 3: Bavarium Sea Heist come out?
Just Cause 3: Bavarium Sea Heist was released on 18 August 2016 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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