Just Cause 3's first DLC pack let players take to the skies in a jetpack, and now the game's land-focused expansion will give players yet another way to wreak havoc in the form of mechs.
Yes, mechs. As in the giant, pilotable robot type. They will be joining Just Cause 3 in June with the release of the "Mech Land Assault" DLC. The expansion will add an entirely new area for players to explore as well, in the form of the island of Lacrima.
"Defended by huge powerful Mechs, Rico will need the new Bavarium Power Core rifle to disable their shields and hijack them," the press release for the DLC reads. "Once inside, Rico can use their powerful cannons and the GRIP Gravity Guns to hurl and smash the enemy into pieces."
Players will be infiltrating the island to explore an abandoned eDen research facility and a prison camp run by the mysterious Black Hand.
Season pass owners can take the new DLC for a spin starting on June 3, whereas other players will have to wait until June 10 for the option of buying "Mech Land Assault" for $11.99.
"We wanted to shake up how Rico interacts with his environment in a similar way," Tobias Andersson, Just Cause 3's senior producer, writes. "The new Mechs allow Rico to throw enemies, vehicles and chaos objects around like tennis balls - increasing the scope for physics-based fun.
"Whether you're juggling a small car or punching helicopters out of the sky, the Mechs give you the opportunity to mess with your surroundings in creative, explosive ways."
Just Cause 3's third and final expansion, "Bavarium Sea Heist", is expected to release by the end of summer 2016, and will complete the season pass' "Air, Land and Sea" theme.
If "Mech Land Assault" is anything like the game's previously released "Sky Fortress" expansion, players should be in for a real treat. "Sky Fortress" essentially turned Just Cause 3's protagonist into Iron Man, complete with a powerful arsenal of weapons. With that in mind, we can hardly imagine the mayhem adding mechs to the game will cause.
