Left to die in a cave full of the blighters, your only option is to sneak past the beasts in a tense game of hide and seek. Speaking of the blood dragons, your first introduction to them is one of the game’s high points. Another option is to lure one of the titular blood dragons into the lair of your enemies, providing suitably grisly and morbidly hilarious results. Being built on the Far Cry 3 engine it looks stunning, and the combat is varied, giving you the opportunity to go for an all-out attack or use a bit o’ the old stealth. However, despite the clear aim at humour throughout, the game is excellent in its own right. There are plenty of other amusing quips from Rex throughout: at one point he’s tasked with a ‘mission’ to kill a mutant cassowary with only a pistol, prompting the remark “That doesn’t even make SENSE!” That’ll be a blood dragon with lasers for eyes then. My favourite moment was when Rex, the ‘cyber commando’ you play, finds one of the many collectible TVs scattered across the island and remarks “At least it’s not a f**king feather” in a sly dig at a certain other Ubisoft franchise with a penchant for inane collecting. What I like most is that the game doesn’t take itself seriously for a moment, and it’s not above poking fun at other games too.
It’s ridiculous, it’s funny, it’s lewd, but most of all it’s bloody good fun. It’s not often that a video game makes me laugh out loud, but Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon had me giggling like a schoolgirl.
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