This isn't a game that outstays its welcome, but nor is it one that feels indecently rushed. Amazingly, it manages to sustain that hell-for-leather momentum for its playing time. That's the tone Blood Dragon is aiming for: top speed, maximum carnage, no prisoners. You've already had a sample of what these can do, since the game opens with a wantonly destructive turret section in which you sweep past an enemy compound, finger on the trigger of a mounted minigun, decimating a bad guy fortress conveniently filled with exploding fuel tanks. You begin with sniper rifle, machine gun and other tools already in your possession, and before long the game has decided you should probably have a minigun as well. Colt's arsenal, too, isn't hanging around. You can hold your breath forever and can fall from any height without dying.
You start the game with the ability to sprint at top speed endlessly. The game's synth-heavy soundtrack riffs on everything from Brad Fiedel's Terminator theme to John Carpenter and Tangerine Dream. As "cyber commando" Rex Colt, superpowers come as standard. Brody had to earn the ability to sprint and slide to safety.
Where Far Cry 3 was a gradual hero's journey, as Brody went from soft tourist to hardened killer, Blood Dragon starts you at a pretty badass level and escalates relentlessly from there.
Blood Dragon is what it is: gloriously, deliberately stupid and outrageously cathartic. This isn't Jason Brody's fever dream, a tatty VHS tape being watched in Vaas' hideout or any similar metatextual narrative twist. There's no tangible connection between the clumsy warrior's yarn of the original and the gaudy '80s action movie being sold here. It's a standalone game that borrows the title and code of Ubisoft's 2012 hit, but doesn't require the original game to play. What is Blood Dragon and what has it got to do with Far Cry 3? Those were the questions that buzzed around once news of this game "accidentally" leaked, and it's a question that remains even once you've downloaded, played and completed the thing.
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