Just Cause 3 will only launch with a single-player mode, according to senior members of the game's development staff.

Game director Roland Lesterlin and Avalanche co-founder Christofer Sundberg told Game Informer that Just Cause 3 will feature no multiplayer options at launch.

"Maybe sometime down the line, we'll take Rico into the modern world of multiplaying," Sundberg explained.

"We don't expect the fans to make the multiplayer for Just Cause 3, but at some point you have to make a choice on where your focus is. Our strength is the sandbox experience, and we want to deliver a great Just Cause 3 experience."

The mention of the fans 'making the multiplayer' is a reference to Just Cause 2, which also launched with no multiplayer options until a group of fans spent two years working on an online multiplayer mod for the game, which was released on Steam in late December 2013.

Elsewhere in the interview, Lesterlin stated that while Just Cause 3's game map may not necessarily be bigger than that of the already enormous Just Cause 2, it will have more content packed into it.

"Just Cause 2 was already enormous," he explained. "We really want to focus now on density and the feel of the world itself.

"So we didn't necessarily just have to do increased land mass, but we have certainly gone a lot bigger when it comes to density of the world and now it's not just on top of the world, we also have caves and tunnels and all sorts of stuff there too."

Last week Avalanche Studios officially announced Just Cause 3 for release on PS4, Xbox One and PC in 2015.

Posted: Nov 18, 2014 12:31 pm
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Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/481239/just-cause-3-wont-have-multiplayer-at-launch/