Rex and his super-soldier partner Spider travel to an unnamed island to investigate Colonel Sloan, their once-commanding officer but more importantly an elite agent who has gone rogue.

Rex is voiced by Michael Biehn who is probably best known for his roles 1980s classics The Terminator, Aliens, and The Abyss. Set in a post-apocalyptic 2007, you play (what else?) cybernetic super-soldier, Sgt. This is readily apparent as soon as you start the game and watch as the Ubisoft logo is played as though you were watching it on a worn-out VHS tape, complete with tracking distortion. So, what would you get if a modern-day, open-world, first-person shooter was created back in the 1980s and had a storyline that was written to the same standards as 1980s sci-fi movies? You’d get Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon – and the game is awesome because of how awful it is.įar Cry 3: Blood Dragon is a first-person shooter from Ubisoft Montreal that was made specifically to capture the essence of the 1980s. These factors helped, for better or worse, to define the 1980s. Horribly written dialog, post-apocalyptic futures, synthesized music, jingoistic and testosterone-laden rock music as the antagonist gets himself mentally and physically prepared for his final assault on the bad guys, and cybernetic implants were needed in every just about every sci-fi movie. It was a fantastic decade in many ways and I absolutely miss those years.īut if there is one thing that the 1980s is best known for with regards to movies and TV, it’s that so many of those shows and movies were metaphorically dripping with cheese. TV gave us Knight Rider, The A-Team, and Airwolf movies gave us Terminator, Escape from New York, Predator, and the only good Transformers movie VHS tapes and cable TV were exploding in popularity, and MTV actually played music.

I hold the 1980s with a great deal of fondness.

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