Following the previous idea of liberating outposts, you’ll be finding several garrisons dotted around – strongholds with shielded perimeters that prevent dragons from roaming in and causing chaos. But as with Far Cry 3, ploughing through the story and ignoring the world around you is a massive waste of some of the better parts of the game. With a main story which will last you 4 or 5 hours it initially, on paper at least, sounds a bit lightweight. As a result of all these darker features the beauty of the Far Cry engine is lost somewhat, but you probably won’t notice for all the fun you’ll be having.Īs an entirely single player campaign you’d be hoping for enough to keep you going for a while, and that’s exactly what you get. The environment has taken a turn for the worse, the sky glows an ever-ominous red colour, dragons roam the island blasting super-powerful lasers at anyone who gets too close and pretty much all of your foes are cyberdudes whose hearts can be torn out to provide bait for the dragons. Whether it’s the neon title screen, the videotape-style loading screens that are constantly tracking to get a better picture, the still-motion cut scenes or the laser weapons (which must exist by 2007, surely…) it initially seems laughably inaccurate until it dawns on you that, if you’re over the age of 30 at least, you probably thought the early 21st century would be like this as well. Yes, really.īased on a stereotypical 80s idea of the near future, everything about Blood Dragon sends you back an era of VHS tapes and dreams of automatic doors in every building. Looking at it, you can see why – Blood Dragon moves away from the green modern day setting and introduces something quite unusual – a futuristic 2007.

DLC was always bound to follow, but with Blood Dragon Ubisoft have taken a slightly different approach, instead releasing this as a stand-alone title that doesn’t even need to original Far Cry 3 to play. A gorgeous open world shooter with massive amounts to do, it went down a storm with gamers for it’s engaging storyline, clever missions and huge amounts of extra stuff to do. It’s difficult to make an argument against Far Cry 3 being one of this generation’s greatest games.

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