Just Cause 3 Might Get Multiplayer In The Future

"We did talk about" multiplayer "a lot," says game director Roland Lesterlin.

Just Cause 3 game director Roland Lesterlin revealed that Avalanche talked about eventually introducing a multiplayer option to the game.

"We did talk about it a lot. The modding community even created a multiplayer mod for Just Cause 2 that was super fun, really cool. The same way that Just Cause 2 was known as a beautiful sandbox in a giant open world, and it surprised many people that consoles could even do that, we wanted to have that same experience... with updated physics and player mechanics, and concentrate first and foremost in the main player."

Lesterin explained that the social features of current platforms allowed for players to share experiences, which really benefitted a game like Just Cause 3. He also noted that while Avalanche wasn't ruling out a multiplayer experience in the future, the studio was focusing on the single-player experience for now.

"What we found was that a lot of players loved sharing videos of what they did. So we wanted to work on the asynchronous side of things. The challenges, ghost mode within leaderboards, being able to challenge your friends to beat feats you did in the world. Having these great PS4 Share feature and the Xbox upload feature, and Steam now has a spectator mode too. Having all these things in there feels perfect for a Just Cause game. It doesn't mean we wouldn't think about what to do with multiplayer in the future, but for this first time around we wanted to pour all our love and energy into a great single-player sandbox to start with."

Just Cause 3 is scheduled for release for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on December 1.