Just Cause (video game)

Just Cause
Box art, featuring Rico Rodriguez
Developer(s)	Avalanche Studios
Publisher(s)	Eidos Interactive
Director(s)	Christofer Sundberg
Producer(s)	Fredrik Sjöö
Designer(s)	Magnus Nedfors
Programmer(s)	Andreas Thorsen Sara Roos Fredrik Lönn
Artist(s)	Stefan Ljungqvist
Writer(s)	Odd Ahlgren Matthew J. Costello Neil Richards
Composer(s)	Rob Lord
Series	Just Cause
Platform(s)	Windows PlayStation 2 Xbox Xbox 360
Release	EU: 22 September 2006 NA: 27 September 2006 AU: 29 September 2006
Genre(s)	Action-adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player

Just Cause is a 2006 third-person action-adventure game set in an open world environment. It is developed by Swedish developer Avalanche Studios and published by Eidos Interactive, and is the first game in the Just Cause series. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Xbox 360. The area explored during the game is described as being over 1,024 km² (395 sq mi) in size,^{[citation needed]} with 21 story missions and over 300 side missions to complete.^[1]

As of 23 April 2009, it has sold more than one million copies.^[2] A sequel to the game developed by Avalanche Studios, published by Eidos Interactive and distributed by Square Enix, titled Just Cause 2, was released in March 2010. Just Cause 3 was revealed in November 2014 and released in December 2015. Just Cause 4 was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in December 2018. It has been confirmed by the CEO of Square Enix, Yosuke Matsuda that a 5th is in development but should not be expected to be out any time soon.