After finding a Army of Chaos convoy destroyed and littering the road of a nearby town, Rico is summoned to Isla Santuario to meet the Solino Underground, a coalition of three gangs who aren't pleased with the Army of Chaos' presence. Bad for business and all. A deal is struck as Rico meets the leaders of the three gangs. If he surpasses their challenges, they give their support to the Army of Chaos. But fail? And Rico is banished from Solís.
Dare Devil's of Destruction is Just Cause 4's first story expansion. Dedicated mostly to cars, racing and destruction, this expansion will unlock a whole host of new weaponized vehicles to take back to Solís and rain untold pain upon the Black Hand.
After completing the initial Trial when starting the DLC, a set of new challenges tailored by each of the gangs will be unlocked across Solís, only needing to go back to Isla Santuario to unlock and play the Trials made by each gang and the final Trial to complete the story.
The challenges on Solís range from Rampage (A closed area filled with things to shoot and rings to jump through to boost your score, hosted by the Gearheads), Run (A checkpoint race with things to destroy along the way, especially your rival drivers, hosted by the LNP) Survival Run and Survival Rampage (Twists on both the Gearhead Rampage and LNP Run challenges where traps are laid out everywhere with all the intentions on killing you. Each death will reduce your score when you respawn, hosted by the Los Artistas).
Completing each challenge will reward the player with vehicles that are offered in their basic versions in the challenges, a suite of upgrades that can be obtained if you manage to chase the A and S ranks on the challenges. The Trials on Isla Santuario however will reward variants for an entirely new muscle car that gets introduced by this DLC, the Excorpión.
All in all, a total of seventeen cars can be unlocked for drops with this expansion. Nine are cars affiliated with the gangs of the Solino Underground, the base model of the Excorpión with no weapons and seven weaponized versions of the Excorpión each loaded with different modifications and paint schemes. My personal favorite out of all the cars has to be the Excorpión Hard Hornet for completing the Los Artistas trial. At S rank, the car will have two forward facing miniguns with ricochet bullets and an energy shield that renders the car completely immune to all damage for a few seconds before requiring a recharge.
Aside from miniguns and energy shields, other upgrades for the cars can include rechargeable wind cannons to push anything and everything out of your path, auto shotguns, homing missile launchers, grenade launchers that fire out from the back of your car to clear any pursuers behind you (sounds good on paper, however useless in practice), nitros boosters, side boosters that can make for more fun drifting, EMPs to disable cars around you, wheel spikes to destroy the tires of anyone who gets close to you, automatic tire re-inflation should your own tires get shot out by an enemy and large front and rear bumpers that are perfect for ramming cars aside.
With some fun challenges, new weaponized car variants and a wild collection of upgrades to turn them into untold hell on wheels, Dare Devils of Destruction is a essentially a Death Race DLC without us having a Death Race video game.
As this comes as standard to owners of the Gold and Complete editions of Just Cause 4, the question here is "Would i recommend picking this up to Reloaded owners?" If you want more cars, i'd say yes. But otherwise i'd recommend getting the Expansion Pass when it's on sale to get this and the other two expansions at one cost.