Article posted: 5/14/2013 6:00 AM

‘Blood Dragon’ a blast of pure ’80s mayhem

Buy this photo Buy this photo
Gallery Image

"Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon" offers a fresh new, albeit shorter, adventure for a fraction of the cost.

ASSOCIATED PRESS/UBISOFT

About this Article

Video games came of age in the 1980s, a decade that was also the heyday of cheesy Hollywood action movies. "Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon" is an affectionate tribute to a cinematic era in which one guy with a lot of guns could solve all the world's problems. The musclehead here is Rex "Power" Colt, a cybernetically enhanced supersoldier who's sent to a remote island to prevent a madman from building an unstoppable army.