Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon welcomes you to the retro party

Posted by apspu on April 24th, 2013

If Far Cry 3's grim tale of survival was a poor fit for the game's exotic, often Buy AION Kinah preposterous antics, there are no such fears for its seemingly disconnected spin-off. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is nothing short of ridiculous, and deliberately so. Ubisoft's standalone shooter celebrates the endearingly excessive sci-fi action of a bygone era in entertainment, when men wore cyber-armor over cyber-arms and when eyes glowed red.

An animated introduction transports us to the post-apocalyptic near future... of 2007. Our new cyborg hero is sent to an island to take out a rogue terrorist group – full of evil cyborgs. The intro has music so pungent of Terminator 2 that i half expect it to tell me it'll be back, and the first 10 or so minutes are filled with references to sci-fi and action movies from in and around the 1980s. Blood Dragon pays homage to an era full of sci-fi missteps and overblown heroes exuding machismo.

"Did you download my mainframe into your cortex? " asks the beret-sporting, mustachioed villain moments later, eyeing down our wonderfully named hero, Sgt. Rex Colt.

With the voice of the Terminator star Michael Biehn, Colt raspily says, "Fuck you. "

There are cuter touches too, like the presentation taking on a distorted VHS feel when your health is low, or headshots pouring out a bitty white glow. Some don't quite fit the overall motif but are still amusing, like how the rock from Far Cry 3, thrown to distract enemies, becomes a d20 die. Colt's A. I guide calls him a nerd for using it.

The d20 substitution is a good example of how the retro re-skin represents a sizable chunk of what's different in Blood Dragon beyond its neon palette. Far Cry 3's knife takedown, for example, is executed with a glowing purple sword, and the follow-up knife throw replaced by a shooting star to the skull. The camera, meanwhile, becomes Colt's Cyber-Eye. It still lets you tag enemies, but now has a digital pink overlay that whirs as you zoom.

At this basic level, from how you heal to the way weapons handle, Blood Dragon feels like a new skin on the old Far Cry 3. The game all but confesses its core resemblance to Far Cry 3 with a tutorial that, while poking fun at itself for being rushed, is still rushed. It seems to assume I'm a returning Far Cry 3 player, failing to realize the game's potential for broader cultural appeal.
source: joystiq


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