{"id":874,"date":"2013-05-18T15:05:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T21:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baconstripempire.wordpress.com\/?p=874"},"modified":"2013-07-17T08:19:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T14:19:48","slug":"phantastic-game-reviews-far-cry-3-blood-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/phantastic-game-reviews-far-cry-3-blood-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"[Ph!GR] Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is pretty good\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

But it’s pretty short. Once you actually focus on completing the main story it should only take you around 6 hours which is a fair time considering the game is only 15 of your American capitalist dollars\u2026 Sorry, channelled my inner-Grunch for a second there. Plus there\u2019s a crap load of bonus stuff to do that will at least double the time it takes to actually finish the game. What I did was conquer all the garrisons first and then blaze through the main storyline. Which ends just as quickly as it starts.\u00a0 But none of that is bad.<\/p>\n

You play as Sergeant Rex Power Colt. (Yes, that is his name. And yes it is awesome.) Rex is a Mark IV (That\u2019s 4\u2026 in case you\u2019re uneducated.) cyber-soldier. I don\u2019t know how he became a cyber-soldier or how any of it works, but hey, it\u2019s pretty cool. Rex is sent to some island after fighting in The Vietnam War 2. Rex is accompanied by Spider, a wise-cracking, obviously stereotypical black man who serves no other purpose than being black and dying in the first fifteen minutes of the game. So, there are bad guys on the island and the island is home to some glowing dragons that can shoot lasers out of their eyes. It\u2019s Rex\u2019s job to kill the bad guy and save the girl, while staving off dragons. It\u2019s your standard 80s si-fi movie affair. Which is literally the entire joke of the game.\u00a0 Rex spouts off more one-liners than you can shake a stick at, there are neon lights everywhere and the music\u2026 the music just makes me giddy. As a kid who totally wasn\u2019t born in the middle of the 90s and definitely remembered said decade, I can say that the 80s gives me nostalgia\u2026 Ok, that didn\u2019t make as much sense as I had hoped.<\/p>\n

So, what makes Blood Dragon so good? Well, there\u2019s a heap of things. One-liners, the setting, the loading screen tips, the fact that it\u2019s a much faster version of Far Cry 3, the reloading animations, flipping off people on command, fighting dragons, and that they took out all the extra stuff that hindered Far Cry 3, like collecting 150 relics or picking from a bunch of useless skills that you\u2019ll probably never get the chance to use or you\u2019ll use once and then forget. The tatau was pretty cool though. The basic idea of the skills in Blood Dragon is that once you level up, you\u2019ll automatically acquire a pre-determined skill. This is nice but unfortunately, it\u2019s very easy to miss the fact that you leveled up and without actively searching through the menu. So you could have gotten an automatic kill everyone skill three levels back without actually realizing it. I mean, there is a weapon that does that, you get it before the last level. And because I\u2019m an idiot I already completed everything in the game before even touching the main story, so I missed out on using a death laser with nearly infinite ammo\u2026 Also, the last level lets you do a really cool thing that made me giggle uncontrollably. But you\u2019ll get no spoilers from me.<\/p>\n

Of course there are things that are bad about Blood Dragon. For one, there\u2019s a sex scene thrown in the middle of Rex\u2019s training montage. That\u2019ll make it awkward to play in front of your mom. (Sorry, mom.) The game is far too short, I got close 100% completion in around 7 hours. (I can\u2019t figure out how I\u2019m supposed to headshot every type of enemy. I figured I had already done that.) Also, there\u2019s no day light cycle, which I guess sets the stage, but it\u2019s kind of depressing. During the day the sky is dark red and at night the sky is dark purple. Something barely noticeable. And this last one is kind of not really anything at all. Sometimes Rex just sounds like some old guy trying to be tough and failing miserably, but other times when he\u2019s spouting certain one-liners, the stars align and it just sounds super right, like he was delivering the perfect end-all one-liner every action hero tries to accomplish. (personally, they should have gone with someone far cooler to do the voice. Like Liam Neeson!) \u00a0<\/p>\n

On a scale from Far Cry 3 to Blood Dragons. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon gets a Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.<\/p>\n

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Wait\u2026 What?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is pretty good\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5],"tags":[34,60,61,151,523,186,304,522,524,431,457],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}