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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