Blood Dragon is just a game being a game, and its a great one!
So, this standalone DLC little thing of FC3 is actually my favorite game in the series by far.
I feel like this kind of game happens when a company takes a risk in trying to create something unique and different and it pays off.
(Another example would be RDR: Undead Nightmare or GTA IV: The Lost and Damned)
Far Cry: Blood Dragon is an alternate reality that takes place in the year 2007 in the middle of the Pacific? The game has a 80s dystopian retro-futuristic synthwave vibe to it, and its awesome.
Awesome soundtrack, cool story, pretty aesthetic , great protagonist (Rex "Power" Colt), badass reload animations, Laser-Dinosaurs, Cyber-Sharks, Robo-Dogs, neon lights, red sky and what's not in this game? xD
Haha, this game has one of the best tutorials. "To look around, look around" ; "Press X to demonstrate your ability to read" ; "Running is like walking, only faster".
The only bad thing about Blood Dragon is the fact that its too short:(
If they want to revive the Far Cry series they need to make Far Cry Blood Dragon 2!

DO NOT PLAY THIS ON PS4 --> Unless you can modify dead zones on your controller.

Story (2/3) - Honestly, a fun story that doesn't take itself seriously. It is ridiculous and as American as you can get. The jokes made me laugh quite a bit. Although, it was rather short.

Gameplay (1/4) - This game cannot run. This port is so bad that it made me have to use modified controllers to change the dead zones so I could somewhat aim without input lag. They should be ashamed of themselves for releasing this.

Performance (1/3) - Game ran at 30 fps on newer hardware when Ubisoft could have easily made it run at 60 fps. Voice lines would replay over and over. Sound files for guns would randomly play in the background like a rapid-fire machinegun (requiring a restart to disable). Just horrible all around.

When you hear about a stand-alone game with Far Cry’s mechanics and an 80’s neon/action movie aesthetics, I think it’s safe to say you expect a good finished product, or at least a fun one. Well, that’s not what I found with Blood Dragon. It’s world ends up feeling dull and uninspired, some of the missions can be fun, but there’s not many of them and, to be fair, there’s not much of anything else. The mechanics are fine and you have some fun weapons at your disposal, but you end up fighting the same 3 or 4 enemies over and over – not even the titular Blood Dragons bring much joy into it.

Commenti:
- solo 7 missioni + mappa open con i soliti stupidi avamposti
- gunplay poco soddisfacente e feeling delle armi pessimo
- moltissime sezioni autoscroller
- si salva solo l’estetica e le citazioni alla cultura anni 80-90

I've never made it a secret among my peers that Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is my favorite game in the series. Free from the restrains of accumulating inane amounts of the expected "Ubisoft bloat," Blood Dragon is a far more concise package still filled with the usual collect-a-thon open-world nonsense, but scaled down to a far more palatable size. With a smaller scale and a more juvenile, 80s nostalgia attitude (when that wasn't as annoying as it is today), Blood Dragon was remarkably the freshest entry in a series that was only going downhill from here.

When a "Classic Edition" for Blood Dragon was announced, I was pretty excited to have another excuse to play one of my favorite open-world games. Sadly, the game was restricted behind a season pass paywall for Far Cry 6, a game I wasn't about to buy - especially at launch since Ubi games tank in value faster than the crypto market - however, with the most recent PlayStation sale, I felt $10 was a reasonable asking price for this game.

To say I was wrong over my initial assessments is an understatement. While Blood Dragon is still a good game to this day, this "Classic Edition" port is a total sham and a waste of money. This may have also been the case for the 8th gen port of Far Cry 3 (I haven't played it in years), but Blood Dragon sees no noticeable improvements to the visuals, gameplay, performance, and so on. There shouldn't be any excuse as to why this isn't running at 60FPS at least on a PS4 Pro (I played on PS5 through an external HDD, which technically runs these Pro versions when available). Even if that was unachievable on a Pro, there are ZERO excuses why this shouldn't be running at 60FPS on a PlayStation 5, especially when there are no noticeable visual improvements to the game.

I don't want to scream about lazy devs, especially in a cutthroat company like Ubisoft (that still employs and shuffles around known and admitted sexual abusers within leadership positions in the company), but this is by far the laziest port of a game I've ever seen. The gall to not only release this half-assed port of a game but also hide it behind a season pass for another game for a while, and when you finally release it standalone, to still feel the need to ask for money on such a lazy port of a nearly 10-year-old game is astounding.

To this very day, the best way to play this game will still be on PC, where you can actually get good performance out of it (and of course have KBM support which is usually my preference for FPS games anyway). Don't give your money to Ubisoft even on a good day, but especially for half-assed software like Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon - Classic Edition.

A good standalone, and its iconicness(pretend thats a real word) is not to be understated. It's got a great atmosphere/aesthetic and the story can be quite hilarious, but unfortunately for me after having 100% completed it (despite two trophies glitching -_-) in the end it just fell a bit samey, which I know everyone says for every Far Cry game but I've felt it the most so far in this one. All there really is to do outside of the short story is collectibles, the same two types of side missions and outposts (garrisons in this). Which is perfectly fine, It's a short standalone i got for like 12 bucks but it holds it back from being anything more than a good experience. Theres also a sad lack of boss fights in the main story and as funny as Rex's one-liners are, there are not enough of them for how often they repeat. All that negativity aside, its a fun distraction for someone wanting a few laughs and to have a good time killing people with lasers. What more could you ask for really?

Trophy Completion - 90%
In Game Completion - 100%
Time Played - 11 hours
Rating - 75/100
Completion #18 of 2022

It's a shame that my first experience with this fan favourite spin-off was with this recently re-released PS5 port. The personality of the game thankfully still manages to shine through. With its frequent self-referential and borderline fourth wall breaking humour, coupled with the excellent retro-stylistic art style. However, even though it isn't completely unplayable, the fast paced gunplay is nearly tarnished, due to the incredibly clunky movement speed, input lag and choppy framerate, that is outright unacceptable in this generation.