Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is a first person shooter for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 The computer game is a standalone expansion to the first-person shooter Far Cry 3, which was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published on 1 May 2013.

Description

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is kept in a neon- pop retro-futuristic style of the eighties. The characters, plot, portrayal of violence and " cartoon" cutscenes are stylistically heavily oversubscribed, self-deprecating and teeming black humor and references to action and sci-fi films of the 1980s, such as Terminator and Predator. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon has no content related to Far Cry 3, but represents a separate game dar. In a video sequence with Far Cry 3 is in a dialog on an island populated with dinosaurs played.

Action

The action takes place in a dystopian alternate world story in 2007, after a devastating nuclear war between East and West Block in the nineties. The player controls a Mark IV Cyber ​​Commando cyborg named Rex "Power" Colt ( in the original version, voiced by Michael Biehn, in the German version of Norman Matte) which the U.S. Army, the enemy cyborg army Omega Force under malignant become Colonel Sloan, on a entlegenden island teeming with Blood Dragons and mutants fought.

Marketing & Development History

The box art for the game was designed by James White, who has already designed the artwork for the film Drive. The trailer for the game were kept in artificial VHS quality. The website is designed in retro style and shows, among other things, in their "shop" putative merchandise.

The soundtrack for the game drove the electronic band Power Glove in from Australia. This was published in part on SoundCloud.

Just two months after the release of the game announced the CEO of Ubisoft, Yves Guillemot, that the game sold more than 500,000 copies. A detailed breakdown of sales for PC, Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 were not disclosed, but that in the wake of the success of the 1980s homage increased the heels of Far Cry 3.

Press

Reviews in PC games magazines:

  • Gamestar: 80% "very good"
  • PC Games: 77 %
  • Games.de: 91 %
  • 4players: 77 %, "good"
Video game publisher France Publication Dunia Engine Single-player video game Gamepad Digital distribution Retro-futurism Predator (Film) Drive (2011 film) Far Cry 2 Far Cry (Film)
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