


When you begin the over the top action, you’re dropped into a rather humorous tutorial, literally freezing you in place making you perform actions before being allowed anything resembling control. Grass is also flammable, making for some rather impressive and, at times, dangerous brush fires. It’s not the prettiest of worlds, but there are some ruins sprinkled throughout to give the world a little more flavor.
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Instead of dropping you into a lush, huge world like Far Cry 3, you’re set in a large, but much more compact island that’s perpetually dark and stormy and full of neon highlights. He’s got a little of that gravel voice that’s become fairly prevalent for protagonists in both games and movies lately, but that might have more to do with age than any sort of artistic choice (or it’s another tongue-in-cheek choice). Hell, the character that you play as is voiced by and resembles (the little you see of him in the NES-era Ninja Gaiden-esque cutscenes) Michael Biehn (Kyle Reese from Terminator and Corporal Dwanye Hicks in Aliens). I think I’m right in the demographic that this was aimed at: in my early 30’s and grew up loving 80’s sci-fi and action flicks. What it builds is a dark world with neon highlights, wonderfully juvenile humor, and some over the top action that’s rather hard to resist. After putting in six or eight hours into Blood Dragon, I might have to reconsider that choice.īlood Dragon is a standalone game that uses Far Cry 3 as its base to build with. While the first two Far Cry games didn’t do much that I felt like latching onto them, I never even gave the third entry a try. Platforms: PC, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360 (reviewed)īlood Dragon is quite the sales pitch for Far Cry 3.
