
You look at what both of those franchises were at the time, really wonderful great statements of action movies, and great statements of America at that time, then all of a sudden they turn into propaganda cartoons and all that shit. “It’s almost similar to Rambo III and Robocop III of when things just suddenly went completely haywire. “So when we made the game, instead of looking at it as ‘Oh we’re just making a cyborg shooter,’ we decided to approach it in the mindset of it’s an action movie genre that’s kind of jumped the shark,” Dean told me. He and the team at Ubisoft Montreal have inserted their love for ’80s and early ’90s movie tropes into Blood Dragon, specifically the bad ones. ”ĭean is a charismatic man and it was immediately evident that he loves what he is doing when I spoke with him. That’s kind of what the whole game is about. All about love, loss, redemption, hope!’ Naw, fuck off.

I kind of miss that a little bit in these types of games.

“It’s a videogame, it’s allowed to be a little bit stupid. “The game’s really stupid, and that’s okay,” creative director Dean Evans told me during a Ubisoft event. Ubisoft took the best open-world experience of last year, and then proceeded to turn up the stupid to 11 by filling the game with obnoxious amounts of neon, cyborgs, and actual giant dragons that shoot laser out of their goddamn eyes. Yes, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is very real, and it’s pretty damn amazing.

It’s like Skyrim with guns, in the past, but also in the future, with neon
