News: Avalanche Studios video hints at Just Cause 3 - ComputerAndVideoGames.com
Avalanche Studios in the Jungle - YouTube
"Just Cause 2 is used as an illustration throughout," reads the video description, "but the reference material collected will prove useful in many of our upcoming open world games.
"In fact, some of the skies that we captured in Costa Rica will make it into Mad Max, which is currently in development at Avalanche Studios in Stockholm."
Just Cause 2 was set in Southeast Asia, on the fictional tropical island of Panau, which was very much inspired by Costa Rica. Although Avalanche never explicitly states that its Cost Rican jungle research is for a new entry in the series, it regularly discusses its findings in the context of its importance to Just Cause.
"In the Just Cause games we're in a tropical paradise," says Andreas Oberg, associate art director at the studio. "And one really important component of tropical paradises is beaches and water. However, water is one of the most complicated things to simulate in movies and computer games. So, yesterday, we were down at the beach and we were recording the water in super slow motion.
"These are all really interesting questions that we're doing research about so that we can improve things for the future."
Avalanche Studios in the Jungle - YouTube