Could this be the era of the video game remix, in which best-selling games are re-clothed and re-sold mere months after launch? A new color palette and an asset swap ("Make the trustafarian explorer a crunchy cyborg", "Make the alligators 20-foot laser-firing dragons") and it is money for old code… In this way Blood Dragon shows how game publishers can squeeze further wealth from their most costly games. But in the way it seizes and repaints Far Cry 3's ample world and engine, borrowing the multimillion-dollar bulk of a game created over years by a team of hundreds, thereby delivering the sort of scope and value no download game build from scratch could possibly match. Not in terms of length – a competent player will get decent change from six hours' investment. It is, perhaps, the first blockbuster-scale download title (an XBL-triple-A production, you might say).
B lood Dragon may appropriate the style and tone of 80s cartoons – from the chrome-plated logo, through the testosterone-drenched dialogue, to its Vangelis-esque soundtrack – but Ubisoft's digital download spin-off to last year's desert island combat game Far Cry 3 has future-facing ramifications.
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