🚨 CHAOS ERUPTS: Just Cause 5 FIRST TRAILER LEAKS – Rico’s WINGSUIT RAMPAGE Returns… But Creator Declares It DEAD?! 🪂💥😈
Square Enix’s mayhem masterpiece is ROARING back in stunning PS5 concept footage – skyscrapers crumble, tanks flip, BLACK MARKET EMPIRE rises! Fans FREAKING OUT… yet Avalanche boss drops BOMBSHELL: “No-Go Forever”?
Is this the FINAL NAIL or a TEASE for TGA 2025 revenge? 👀
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A jaw-dropping fan-made concept trailer for Just Cause 5 has exploded across YouTube, showcasing Rico Rodriguez in hyper-realistic PS5 chaos just weeks before The Game Awards 2025. Uploaded on November 10 by an anonymous creator, the two-minute spectacle features wingsuit dives through neon-lit skylines, tether-assisted tank hijackings, and city-leveling explosions – all set to a thumping industrial soundtrack. While labeled “concept,” it taps into pent-up demand for Square Enix’s over-the-top open-world series, amassing hundreds of thousands of views amid rumors of official development woes.
The video arrives at a precarious moment for the franchise. On November 3, Avalanche Studios co-founder and Just Cause creator Christofer Sundberg – who departed the studio in 2019 – declared a sequel “would be a no-go,” citing the exodus of “extremely few from the original team” still at Avalanche. His comments followed Microsoft’s cancellation of Contraband, a co-op smuggler sim pitched by Sundberg in 2017 and helmed by Avalanche’s now-closed Liverpool office. “The problems with JC4 was the launch deadline broke the team,” Sundberg added, referencing Just Cause 4‘s troubled 2018 debut plagued by bugs and weather system backlash.
Just Cause launched in 2006 as Avalanche’s breakout hit: Players embody rogue agent Rico Rodriguez, toppling dictators with grapples, parachutes, and unlimited ammo in sandbox paradises. The series peaked with Just Cause 2 (2010), selling over 7 million copies for its emergent mayhem – tethering helicopters to jeeps, nuking fuel depots mid-freefall. Just Cause 3 (2015) amplified destruction with the Grapple Gun and boosted sales to 15 million lifetime across the trilogy.
Square Enix acquired publishing rights in 2009, greenlighting Avalanche’s Apex engine for ever-larger maps. Just Cause 4 shifted to dynamic storms and vehicles but flopped critically (Metacritic 68 PS4), selling under 5 million amid launch woes. Post-launch support ended around 2020, fueling speculation.
Development intrigue deepened in 2022 when Square Enix confirmed “another all-new entry” in the series during financials, presumed Just Cause 5. Yet leaks revealed turmoil: Sumo Digital’s Oxford team prototyped vehicles for JC5 from July 2021 to July 2023 before Square Enix axed it. A Just Cause: Mobile spin-off, teased at TGA 2020, met the same fate in 2023.
Avalanche, now 500+ strong across Stockholm, New York, and Barcelona, pivoted. Recent projects include Contraband (canceled November 2025) and unannounced titles. CEO Vlada Belov emphasized “new IPs” in layoffs (50+ cuts in 2024), distancing from JC. Sundberg, now CCO at Liquid Swords Studio, unveiled a gritty open-world crime saga October 28 – “Max Payne meets GTA 4” vibes, no fantasy, pure rebellion.
Square Enix remains silent. The publisher, reeling from 2024 flops like Babylon’s Fall, sold Tomb Raider to Embracer but retains JC. FY2025 earnings (May) touted “strong pipeline,” yet no JC mention. Analysts speculate handover to another studio – perhaps IO Interactive or new blood – but Sundberg’s verdict looms: “Find the fire again… make games others said were impossible.”
Fanbase erupts on X and Reddit. “JC5 no-go? Square Enix, wake up!” one viral post raged, echoing 10k+ signatures for remasters. Concepts like the viral trailer – Unreal Engine 5 skylines, drone swarms – rack likes, with calls for JC2 remaster (Sundberg’s nod). TGA 2025 (Dec 12) looms; whispers of Square Enix shadows, but nominees skip JC.
History repeats? Just Cause‘s DNA – physics-defying freedom – birthed clones like Mad Max (Avalanche, 2015). JC4’s storm gimmick alienated purists craving Medipi mayhem. A reboot risks alienating Rico loyalists; Sundberg nixed FPS pivot in 2023.
Could JC5 rise? Square Enix’s Montreal hub eyes multiplats. Leaks hint Agency showdown in U.S. – post-JC4’s Black Hand fall, Rico eyes homeland tyranny. Grapple 2.0, weather tweaks, co-op chaos? Fans dream.
Yet layoffs haunt: Avalanche shed 50% Newcastle in 2023; Liverpool shuttered. Industry bloodbath – 10k+ jobs gone 2024-25 – hits sandboxes hard (Anthem, Outriders ghosts).
Sundberg laments: “Started Avalanche to break molds.” His Liquid Swords – grungy streets, moral ambiguity – channels JC spirit sans publisher chains.
As fog clears, JC5 hangs by tether. Concept trailer teases glory; creator’s words, dirge. Square Enix: Revive or relegate? Rico waits – parachute packed.
