Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
There’s only one force powerful enough to stop an army of rampaging killer cyborgs, mutated scientists, metal sharks and vicious Blood Dragons that shoot lasers from their eyes – that force is you. Your name…
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is an adventure developed by Ubisoft Montreal, released 30 April 2013 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Google Stadia and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 7.4 hrs to finish.
What Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released in 2013. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Google Stadia and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Dunia Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The year is 2007 and Earth has been ravaged by a nuclear war which erupted in the 90's. The east vs. west conflict has raged for generations, and humanity continues to struggle to progress after a disastrous decade. New paths for peace must be found, and the US cyborg army may have found a solution: a powerful bio weapon on a distant island. Your mission is to gather information and figure out what the hell is going on. As Sergeant Rex Colt, you are part man, part machine, all American. You are a state-of-the-art Mark IV cyber-commando on a mission… of vengeance. You’re out to bring down your old commanding officer and his battalion of ruthless killer cyborgs-and you’ll stop at nothing to…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 19 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Far Cry series
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is the eighth of 29 entries we hold in the Far Cry series. The next entry was Far Cry Classic in 2014. Its critic score of 83 is 4 points above the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Far Cry 3 at 90.
How it was received
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 403 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7.4 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 10.7 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.66 GHz Intel® Core™2 Duo E6700 or 3.00 GHz AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 6000+, 2 GB of RAM and 512 MB DirectX® 9.0c–compliant. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon launched on 30 April 2013, within three weeks of Metro: Last Light, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Age of Empires II HD and Don't Starve. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Metro: Last Light, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Age of Empires II HD, Don't Starve.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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