Just Cause 3
Every game in this series is absurd and they all deserve to be on this list but Just Cause 3 gets to take the cake for being so damn good at what it does. You are Rico Rodriguez and you return to your na- oh who are we kidding. There’s really no reason to hear what the story to this game is about because it’s clear to everyone what this truly is: it is but an ode to the majestic beauty of utter chaos.
It’s as though the guiding principles behind the game were: take Grand Theft Auto, shave all the storytelling, crank the absurdity to 1,000, and just watch the world burn. Why drive around and gun strangers down when you could get into a jet and make indiscriminate bombing runs over the city? How about calling in an airdropped vehicle… in the middle of traffic? Still , nothing competes with watching a man, attached to an explosive barrel by grappling hook fly off into the stratosphere. It’s the simple things.
