If you didn't play "Far Cry 3," you get a solid sample for one-quarter of the price. Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon a first-person shooter with an admixture of action-adventure in which you. Your mission: get the girl, kill the baddies, and save the world. The year is 2007 and you are Sargent Rex Colt, a Mark IV Cyber Commando. If you loved the parent game, you get a fresh new adventure using the same mechanics. Far Cry® 3: Blood Dragon is THE Kick-Ass Cyber Shooter. "Blood Dragon" is an intriguing experiment in downloadable content from a big publisher like Ubisoft. It takes just six hours or so to play through, which isn't necessarily a bad thing if you felt "FC3" dragged on too long. You don't need that game to play "Blood Dragon." Instead, your $15 buys you a scaled-down version of "FC3" with a smaller map, fewer weapons and a streamlined leveling-up system. The plot is laid out in pixelated, minimally animated cut scenes, although most of the action takes place in the fully up-to-date engine Ubisoft created for last year's Far Cry 3 ( Review). The story has everything you could want from the genre, including a painfully awkward sex scene, a montage of Rex training and a flamboyantly over-the-top climax. Rex is voiced by Michael Biehn, a veteran of genuine '80s classics like "The Terminator" and "Aliens," and his growly one-liners contribute as much to the atmosphere as the game's pulsing synth-heavy soundtrack. The musclehead here is Rex "Power" Colt, a cybernetically enhanced supersoldier who's sent to a remote island to prevent a madman from building an unstoppable army. It's an affectionate tribute to a cinematic era in which one guy with a lot of guns could solve all the world's problems. "Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon" (Ubisoft, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, $15) makes that connection more explicit. The ultraviolent power fantasies that seem so corny today - movies like "Rambo," ''Commando" and "The Delta Force" - pretty much provided the template for popular games like "Call of Duty" and "Gears of War."
Thirty years later, you don't have to look hard to see the influence of one medium on the other. Chances are that you've thoroughly enjoyed yourself, too.Video games came of age in the 1980s, a decade that was also the heyday of cheesy Hollywood action movies. Yet by the end you realise that its haphazard portrayal of trashy macho culture actually fits the series' fixation with the nature of heroism and violence rather well. The theme, after all, is just a veneer on that game. More smartly, the island's scattering of collectibles and missions found at cleared outposts unlock weapon upgrades, leading to a succinct sense of progression.ĭespite the colourful setup and all the neon accents, Blood Dragon is set in a bafflingly drab world of permanent night, as if anxious to conceal the fact that most of its assets are reused from FC3. They're not interesting to fight, however, simply bullet sponges against your arsenal of miniguns and health packs, and a missed opportunity to power up the ecosystem. They're the main addition to FC3 – tough and powerful, but you soon learn you can lure them towards enemies to help you out.
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