Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon PS3 Digital Download Review

If you like the original Far Cry 3 for PS3, X360 and PC, you proberly love this 80's Sci-Fi style shooter.

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is the spin-off expansion of original Far Cry 3, developed and published by Ubisoft.

This game looks quite different than the original Far Cry 3, as you can tell it's FPS game with futuristic Sci-Fi movie style in 80's, badass characters and awesome storyplot, which makes the game look far more interesting and worth to play it. It also have some secrets and references from the 80's movies like Terminator, Alien, Predator, Transformers and G.I Joe, which has cool quotes and catchy soundtrack.

Lets do the review, shall we. The story takes place in fictional 2007, where United States and Russia already been destroyed by nuclear bombs. You take the role of Sgt Rex Power Colt has the mission to investigate Colonel Slogan, an elite agent who has gone rogue, during the mission. With the help of Dr Darling giving Rex's goals to defeat Slogan's plans. This game only has single player campaign, which unfortunately there's no muiltiplayer in this game, unlike original Far Cry 3. The gameplay has same mechanics as the Far Cry 3, but features some improvements, such as skills levels, which allows you to skill up your player's ability in automatically and it also removes crafting, which you don't need to craft items anymore. It is open world gameplay, which you can explore the whole levels, with main missions, side missions to get reward for money, killing rare animals, drive vehicles and saving nerds from different places. The controls plays really well with character's movement and camera control. The combat gameplay has great stealth combat, which allows you to sneak past the levels, without getting caught by enemies sees you or try sneak up behind enemies by stabbing them with knife or throwing ninja shrunken at the enemies head. However, the blood dragon may be tough to kill, if you try to aim at the dragon's chest, unless you have Terror 4000 chaingun or Killstar is the recommended way to kill blood dragon. If you don't have good weapons, then try distracting them by throwing cyber heart or try sneaking quietly without getting them notice you. 

The weapons has the best choices for players, like A.J.M.9 auto-pistol, Fazertron Rifle, Flamer, Galleria 1991 shotgun, Korbracon Sniper, Terror 4000 chaingun and the best weapons in the game is Killstar, which shoots laserbeam out, is frickening badass. These weapons are perfect for range shots, very accurate aiming and reliable weapons, which you can upgrades your weapons from the shop. You can also get useful items, like medical kit, ammo and grenades from shop as well, which is quite handy to keep items with you, during the mission. I say the whole gameplay is amazingly fantastic with great levels, missions, controls and atmosphere.

The graphics has really amazing visuals, best animation design, well detailed backgrounds and texture, and superb looking engine, which is the most fascinating graphics for modern consoles. 

The music and sounds are far masterpiece with awesome music, composed by Power Glove which makes the best 80's style soundtrack so far, especially the license music, such as Little Richards and Kevin Chalfant sounds way better than the license music on original Far Cry 3. The sound effects has best Sci-Fi atmosphere for backgrounds and gun shooting. The voice acting sounds very good for voice cast, especially Michael Biehn voicing Sgt Rex Power Colt, did a wonderful job on most of the characters in the game with great dialogue, plot and well fitted voice overs.

The special features has collectable items, such as Dr. Carlyle's notes, TV set and VHS tape to collect. It has easter eggs and references and you can unlock achievements. However, there's no downloadable add-ons content, which is quite shame, but decent features.

Advantages 

Amazing Gameplay

Fascinating Graphics

Epic Music and Sounds

Awesome story and characters

Disadvantages

No muiltiplayer

No DLC add-ons

Short campaign

Final Verdict

Here is my overall.

Gameplay 8.5/10 - Great controls for combat gameplay and open world missions.

Graphics 9/10 - Superb graphics for visuals, animations, and backgrounds and textures.

Music and Sounds 10/10 - Epic soundtrack, amazing sound effects and awesome voice cast for characters.

Special Features 7/10 - It has collectable items, easter eggs and references, and unlockable achievements.

Overall 8.9/10 - Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is the best spin-off game and it's way much better than the original Far Cry 3. I love the Sci-Fi atmosphere with kickass action, great open-world levels, excellent campaign mission, and its more like the Terminator style, what makes the game so enjoyable and fun to play. I should recommend you to buy this on PSN and XBLA store. 

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Remember Me PS3 Digital Download Review

Remember Me is a Sci-Fi Action-Adventure which developed by Dontnod Entertainment, and published by Capcom. It was originally a PS3 exclusive titled Adrift in year 2010, when the project was on under development, but it was cancelled in 2011, before Capcom provided the funding for project as the muiltiplatform title, which is already released on June 7th 2013. So lets review this game, shall we.

This game take place on year 2084, in Paris. The story is about Nilin, who had been imprisoned in the Bastille Fortress, managed to escape from Memorize Corporation who are trying to wipe out her last memory.With the help of Edge as leader of the Errorists commanding her to destroy Memorize Corporation to save people from getting amnesia.

I say the story sound quite weak and uninteresting at all with boring plot, underwhelming cutscenes and some crappy dialogue. The character like Nilin are quite decent while others characters are seems to be forgettable and unappealing.

The gameplay features platforming, exploration and melee combat, including memory remixing. The control scheme plays ok'ay for character's movement which is good for platforming in some levels, when you climb any obstacles on different platform of the levels, but I find the melee combat plays quite slow and repetitive which is harder to perform any fighting moves. The fighting moves has certain of the combos moves called Pressens which allows players to create and customise the combo moves through the combo lab options and you can even unlocking the new moves as well. The four Pressens are "Regen" which increases the health, "Power" gives enemies high damage hit, "Chain" which doubling your previous moves and "Cooldown" which increases your S-Pressens energy. These are the Pressens can be helpful for your character's performance, when you perform combo moves by pressing the right combination of each button, which it feels too slow to perform attack moves to receive the Pressens.

The special moves is not that bad. You can use "S-Pressens" moves to do things like stun enemies, performing moves at high speed and land more hits, or turn hostile robots into allies which self-destruct themselves. You can use projectile weapons, like "Spammer and "Junk Bolt" which is quite handy to use it in some levels, but it feels too clunky, when using for aiming mode. The memory remixing sounds really interesting, when gaining access to character's memory. You can remixing their memory by using rewind, forward and activate to rearranging the target memories to manipulate them. Your goals is to replaying a memory and modifying details to change target's recollection of the outcome. You can also steal people's memory from certain targets and using points called remembranes which proceed through the game or avoiding hazards. I say the gameplay overall is quite mediocre, compared to Batman: Arkham City has way much playable gameplay than this.

The graphics seems have great characters design, nice visuals, smooth animation and some good lighting backgrounds and textures which did a good job that the game engine is just capable of having decent graphics.

The music and sounds has good sci-fi soundtrack, amazing sound effects for backgrounds and atmosphere, and good voice acting for characters which is big thumb ups for this game.  

The special features has unlockable artwork, 3D models and gallery to check out and it has downloadable content as well, which it didn't have enough feature choices for this game.

Advantages

Decent female protagonists.

Good graphics.

Great music and sounds.

Cool memory remixing.

Disadvantages

Mediocre combat gameplay

Weak storyplot and dialogue.

Other characters are forgetable.

Short episode.

Boring boss fights.

Final Verdict

Here is the bottom line.

Gameplay 6.2/10 - The character's movements are quite ok'ay for platforming and exploration, even the cool memory remixing, but I say combat gameplay is feel slow and repetitive for combo moves and projectile weapons. 

Graphics 7.5/10 - The graphics have great characters design, nice visuals, smooth animation and some good lighting backgrounds and textures.

Music and sounds 7/10 - It has good sci-fi soundtrack, amazing sound effects for backgrounds and atmosphere, and good voice acting for characters.

Special Features 4/10 - It has unlockable artwork, 3D models, gallery and downloadable content which is not enough features choices.

Overall 6/10 - I'm not saying this game is terrible.This game has good female protagonists, impressive graphics, decent soundtrack, and even memory remixing are quite cool. I say the gameplay and story needs more bit of improving to make the game playable. Of course the game is too short which only takes about 1-2 days to complete. It's best for you to rent this game. 

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