Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon

One of the best Far Cry games I have ever played but I'm disappointed that they won't make more games or style like this again.

Довольно короткая игра: чистого сюжета здесь на 4-6 часов. Сказать, что получил вау от прохождения, не могу, но и сильно критиковать игру тоже не буду. Я бы назвал это «Старым киберпанком» или, или началом к созданию киберпанка, ведь реально можно найти моменты, которыми вдохновлялись разработчики игры «Киберпанк». Так что игру «Блад Драгон» можно назвать прародителем игры. Но жалко, что игру можно пройти за один присест. Что по игре: Она очень коротка, сюжета здесь буквально нет, его тут очень мало, да и он клишированный. В принципе, игра на этом и построена, на клише старых игр и фильмов. Юмор здесь подарит улыбку. Графика в игре не очень. Да, она красивая за счёт неона, но когда ты видишь тёмные локации и немного неона, то глазам прямо больно это проходить, приходится добавлять яркость в игре. Оружия здесь почти нет, можно пересчитать по пальцам одной руки. Могу похвалить игру за: юмор, русскую озвучку, динамичную музыку, которая сопровождает нас во время файтов, забавные клишированные моменты и за то, что в конце игры дали покататься на динозавре, который просто всё испепеляет. Меня очень сильно бесило то, что когда нажимаешь кнопку ESC, чтобы поставить игру на паузу или зайти в настройки, вылазит уведомление о попытке соединения со старыми неработающими серверами Юбисофт, и его даже скипнуть нельзя, приходится ждать по 20 секунд, так как старые сервера уже давно не работают.

wow this is truly art. absolute cinema if you will. you start this game as an over powered soldier and evolve into a low level god. i felt like i was playing CS surf with a quad barrel shotgun not to mention they fixed almost every problem i had with the base game. i 100% it in 7-8 hours and i wasnt bored once. this is one of the best games for a slow weekend.

Pros: - The game is funny and sarcastic as hell, Ubisoft would never dare create something like that again - Some story - Lots of stupid running and shooting - You can die - Achievements - In 2026 runs on a potato (RTX 3050 is enough for 1440p max settings at 90fps) Cons: - Ubisoft Launcher, f-k it - Unable to connect to online servers every time you open the menu (results in a minute long wait): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3736085167 - The game is extremely dark (increase gamma to the maximum and add some brightness - it's still dark but playable) - At least on Intel you must use DXVK. Download 2.7.1 and extract x32 DLLs to the game directory. Native Direct3D11 renderer in the game is bugged. I played it last time on February 22, 2017. Got tired of it. Almost a decade later it's actually quite OK. It's a DLC though. Don't expect much.

Crazy fun for a small game. The current Ubisoft should learn from their own past games.

Giocato subito dopo aver giocato Far Cry3. Devo dire che a giocarlo a distanza di svariati anni, mi ricordo abbastanza tutto del gioco. Mi ricordo addirittura il trofeo dove devi uccidere ogni tipologia di nemico facendo un colpo alla testa, un trofeo che la prima volta che lo giocai ho avuto difficoltà a sbloccare(perché alcuni nemici sono presenti solo durante le missioni della storia). Posso dire che questa volta non mi sono fatto trovare impreparato.😎 A livello tecnico non mi ha dato nessun problema, fluidissimo dall'inizio alla fine. Appena avviato appare il logo Ubisoft versione retro e posso dire che è figo, stiloso🧐 L'introduzione del gioco ti fa subito capire che sarà qualcosa sopra le righe, con cult di film per fare delle battute. Posso dire che il gioco è proprio questo😂 La trama è presente (è tranquillamente la trama di qualsiasi film d'azione, c'è addirittura una scena di sesso che non ho apprezzato particolarmente, ma capisco l'inserimento), ma si può dire che serve come collante per farti giocare il gioco e darti una progressione. Mi ha fatto ridere la fase di allenamento di Rex, mi ha ricordato un film🤔 Il gunplay è praticamente preso da Far Cry3, con l'unica differenza che non è presente il danno da caduta, e l'ho apprezzato! Buttarsi da punti altissimi e atterrare senza farsi un graffio, ottimo per accorciare le distanze è divertente sentire il rumore di ferro all'atterraggio, mi sono sentito indistruttibile!🦿 Anche le armi sono diverse, esteticamente accattivanti, mai vista nella mia esperienza videoludica un'arma così forte, come quella che si ottiene una volta finita la storia principale, la stella della morte🙈 Anche qui sono presenti gli avamposti, stranamente li ho fatti tutti con aggressività entrando e sparando a vista tutti, si vede che mi ha preso bene! Mi sembrava un po' ridicolo fare lo stealth quando si è un cyborg fortissimo👀 Ci sono i collezionabili, stranamente pochi😅, ogni tanto Rex farà delle battute di noia nel mentre che si raccolgono, e come dargli torto🧐 Tra tutti gli animali presenti mi è piaciuta la tigre di platino, spettacolare, e il drago, forse con i colori un po' troppo RGB, ma bello maestoso. Ci sono alcune citazioni che mi hanno fatto fare una risata bonaria, eccole: "Running is like walking, only faster." "No. Lady Libery. She taught me that winners... don't use drogs." "If guns make me safe, bigger guns make me safer." Lo stile grafico non ho ancora capito se mi sia piaciuto o meno. Ci ho voluto una 15ina d'ore per farlo al 100%, secondo me il giusto per non prenderlo a noia😊

[h1]FAR CRY® 3: BLOOD DRAGON[/h1][h3]A neon-drenched 80's adventure that's more fun than it has any right to be[/h3] https://youtu.be/Z1WdszsDQ9I [h3]Want to see the technical reality for yourself?[/h3] [url=https://youtube.com/@LumenHDR?sub_confirmation=1][b]Lumen HDR on YouTube[/b][/url] for HDR gaming content, side-by-side technical comparisons, and HDR/SDR showcases. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45848905-HDR-GAMING/][b]Steam Curator Page![/b][/url] [h2]THE HISTORY: A SIX MONTH SIDE PROJECT THAT OUTLIVED THE HYPE[/h2] Ubisoft Montreal built Blood Dragon in roughly six months as a low-budget, standalone side project riding on the back of Far Cry 3's engine and assets. Personally, this is one of my favorite games, full stop. The synthwave soundtrack and neon visual identity hit exactly my taste, and combined with the alternate Cold War gone hot history it's built on, the United States and Soviet Union that never stopped fighting, I'd genuinely put this in the running for the best DLC ever made. [h2]THE PLOT: SOCIAL DARWINISM IN A NEON JACKET[/h2] Set in an alternate 2007 where a second Vietnam War between the US and USSR went nuclear, you play [b]Sergeant Rex "Power" Colt[/b], a [b]US Mark IV Cyber Commando[/b] voiced by [b]Michael Biehn[/b], sent with fellow cyborg [b]T.T. "Spider" Brown[/b] to investigate his former commanding officer, [b]Colonel Sloan[/b], who has gone rogue on an island crawling with mutated wildlife and the titular Blood Dragons, dinosaur-sized creatures that fire lasers out of their eyes. Rex spends the whole story being told he's "90% not human," reduced to a weapon with programming Sloan can flip on and off at will. Sloan counts on that programming to stop Rex from landing the final blow. What overrides it isn't more firepower, it's memory: Spider's death, Darling's loyalty, the parts of Rex that were never reducible to code in the first place. That's a small but real picture of something scripture takes seriously: identity and conscience aren't just hardware. Even wrapped in chrome and exploding-head one-liners, the game stumbles into arguing that something in a person, call it conscience or the soul, can't be fully programmed out. On a more personal note, my view of the soldier archetype itself tends to run negative, and Rex is a clean example of why. Christ himself never modeled violence as a path to anything: he told Peter that those who live by the sword die by the sword [b](Matthew 26:52)[/b], he made clear his kingdom doesn't advance through force [b](John 18:36)[/b], and he calls his followers to love their enemies rather than destroy them. The fight he actually calls Christians to isn't fought with weapons in the first place, it's spiritual [b](Ephesians 6:12)[/b]. The version of the soldier Rex represents here, a man built from scratch as a killing instrument, finding his entire identity and sense of humor in violence, sits about as far from that example as a protagonist can get. None of this makes Blood Dragon devotional material. It's gratuitously violent, plenty crude, and treats killing as a punchline more often than not. But as far as spiritual content goes, the real danger here is glorifying pride and bloodlust as entertainment. Worth naming, not worth losing sleep over. [h2]PERFORMANCE & VISUALS: WHERE HDR ACTUALLY EARNS ITS KEEP[/h2] Technically, Blood Dragon runs on the same Dunia Engine 2 as the base Far Cry 3, and for a 2013 game built in about six months, it has aged better than it has any right to. The one real technical gap is native HDR, which simply doesn't exist because the game predates HDR gaming as a feature entirely. That stings here specifically, because this is a game built almost entirely around saturated neon pinks, cyans, and a deliberate VHS scanline filter, exactly the kind of content that benefits most from a wider color volume. The good news: I ran this myself using the RenoDX HDR mod built for the Dunia engine, originally targeting Far Cry 3 proper but confirmed by the community to carry over to Blood Dragon, and it's the reason any of my HDR footage from this game exists. It rewrites the rendering pipeline to add real HDR output along with manual controls for bloom, vignette, LUTs, color grading, and film grain. Worth knowing before installing it: other users have flagged broken colors on certain transparencies (water splashes on windshields, blood effects), and some had to switch to Special K with a raw framebuffer tonemapper setting instead of the stock ReShade path to get a clean result. It's not plug-and-play yet, but it's the closest this game has ever come to looking the way its art direction was clearly always reaching for. [h2]ON UBISOFT TODAY: NOT THE SAME COMPANY[/h2] It's hard to write a glowing piece about something Ubisoft made in 2013 without saying the obvious: that studio barely exists anymore. I'm not a fan of what the company has turned into. Whatever credit Blood Dragon earns, it earns for a team that isn't really there anymore. [b]Verdict:[/b] [b]Highly Recommended[/b]. The gunplay is fun, the Power Glove synth soundtrack is a blast, and Michael Biehn is clearly having the time of his life. On top of that, HDR finally makes it look as good as it always should have. It's still one of my all-time favorites, synthwave soundtrack and all. [b]"What's with the needle, Doc? No Doc. No way. I swore an oath to a special lady. Lady Liberty. She taught me that winners... don't use drugs."[/b]