On Dec. 1, Square Enix released the third installment in their single-player action series, Just Cause 3, for Xbox One, PS4 and PC. While many single-player games are designed around the story and characters, Just Cause is focused primarily on explosions and destruction. While this may sound like a negative, but with Just Cause it serves as its selling point, making the game an exhilarating action movie experience.

The game’s storyline revolves around a rebellious uprising in the fictional islands of Medici. The game’s protagonist is Rico Rodriguez, a hotshot action star and hero to the people. The gamer plays as Rico as he goes from town to town, liberating the people from the oppressive militia forces and taking control of bases.

In Just Cause you are equipt with a wingsuit, parachute, grapple gun, unlimited c4, machine guns and a rocket launcher. With these tools of destruction you can liberate or raze the countryside, tying cars together, grappling into people and blowing up buildings.

While the story is nothing to brag about, the game mechanics work and feel great. Flying through the sky using your wing suit is exhilarating and being able to save yourself from a great fall by grappling to the ground at the last minute is a one of a kind experience.

Just Cause 3, while not the most engaging or intellectual of games, is a fun, mindless experience to pass the time with.