The range of weapons are essentially the same (standard shooter fare), right down to Rex’s neon-lit bow. A new mechanic allows you to effectively chain stealth kills but I found it easier and more satisfying to go in all guns blazing in most cases. Michael Biehn of Terminator and The Abyss does an impeccible job of voicing Colt, and the game's relentless but perfectly apt electronic synth music never wears thin.Īs I said, it’s not necessary to have played previous games in the series, but for those of you who have played Far Cry 3, the gameplay will be very familiar: predominantly shooting with (mostly) optional stealth elements. The audio goes some way towards compensating, however.
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I didn’t find adjusting the settings helped either. There were many driving sections where I found myself repeatedly crashing into trees I couldn’t see until it was too late. Everything is viewed through a neon filter, which of course completely fits the 80s cyber-action vibe, but makes the game incredibly difficult to play. Where Blood Dragon falls down is in its presentation. There’s a love interest called Dr Darling (Blackadder, anyone?), and a load of crazy objectives including my favourite: ‘Punch the nuclear reactor’. Essentially, in an 80s vision of the future (where, magnificently, “the apocalypse has had an apocalypse”), Colt’s former cyber-commander has acquired some kind of bio-weapon-rocket-thing and must be stopped from firing it. Much of the story is told through 16-bit style cutscenes so should in theory be easy to follow, but in truth it’s hard to focus on what’s going on when the narrative is so deliberately preposterous and there are so many distracting one-liners. difficult to hold on to, and completely irrelevant. And this one is terrible!” Except it isn’t all in all it’s one of the best openings to a game I’ve played in a good while.īlood Dragon’s plot is. “Man,” grunts protagonist Rex ‘Power’ Colt. The screen prompts: Press X to demonstrate you can read.
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It's big, loud and can't fail to raise a smile - much like Arnie and co back in the day.įrom there you're thrown into a wonderful tutorial. Blood Dragon sets out its stall from minute one, kicking off with a nod to Predator's classic Long Tall Sally chopper scene, which Ubisoft have enhanced with lots and lots of shooting (interestingly, not dissimilar to the opening of Spec Ops: The Line).