★★★☆☆
JC3 is an open world explosion simulator. While lacking JC2's artistic style, it keeps most of the fun. JC2 is probably the better buy at this point, for a variety of reasons.

Pro/Con Feature List:
+ Hackable SAMs
+ Large open world
+ Destruction physics
+ Dynamic scoreboards
+ Mini encounter events
+ Zone and vehicle names on screen
+ New objective types and rebel interactions
+ Unique radio message for each base destroyed
+ No more annoying QTE when trying to steal a vehicle
+ NPCs drive you to custom waypoints while you ride the roof
+ The new heat (enemy agro) systems work well, enemies can be stopped when calling for backup, and you have to stay out of sight to lose heat
+ Destroying the world is much more rewarding this time around, instead of just a completion % for the sake of %

+- In-world GPS on roads, only in cars
+- Rico's voice reminds me more of Ezio
+- Weak story, if you can even qualify it as one
+- Vehicle collecting, but vehicles are kinda pointless
+- Nice logo/intro, the first time, but it can't be skipped
+- Toggleable passive upgrades, unlocked in a preset order
+- Fast travel and supply drops are basically limited to once per life
+- Ziplines and infinite remote detonators makes destruction objectives straightforward.

- No minimap
- Wingsuit faceplants
- No multiplayer/coop
- Bad vehicle handling
- Limited grapple distance
- Can't sprint, crouch, or roll
- System resource destroyer (memory leaks?)
- Have to manually select story missions on the map
- Aiming in vehicles is so sluggish its barely functional
- Boost doesn't recharge if you continue to hold the button
- No graphic presets and most graphic options are simple on/off choices
- The game starts with an escort quest, can't think of a worse possible way...
- Most weapons can't ADS, even after you get the ADS unlock, its just a minor zoom with no actual sights
- DLCs are crazy pay2win, have animated-comic cutscenes, and interfere with main story progress
- CoD style HP regen. Die for many stupid reasons (usualy related to the wingsuit), but never to combat
- Controls are terribly mapped by default, things like closing menus with ctrl, capslock for remote mines
- Online DRM-ish (likely just for scoreboards), while there is an option to play offline, this doesn't seem like something that needs to inturupt gameplay
- No borderless window mode. The game loaded up in 720p by default, changing the resolution caused the mouse to register wrong.
- Weak Graphics. Anisotropic filtering is an option, but doesn't actually improve textures. Jittery shadows. No real AA. Some distant terrain looks awful...
- Multiple crashes, almost bringing down the entire system. To make things worse, these crashes happen after clearing objectives, causing the reward screens to be missed.

* No steam-cloud saving?