History VideoGame / FarCry3BloodDragon

** Actually explained in ''Trails of the Blood Dragon'', where it turns out [[spoiler:no one man is meant to possess it for too long. It eventually drives Rex insane and evil.]]

*** One of the Predator's Path quests has you hunting a Cyber-Shark named "Brody."

* BadassNormal: An odd example. Every wild animal in the animal is as cyber-something or mutant-whatever... except boars, which are normal, non-enhanced wild boars. And yet they can kick Rex's ass as much as any other animal.

* AmbiguousRobots: The Blood Dragons might be a case of MechanicalLifeforms... [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane maybe]]. Their blood supercharges cybernetics, their bodies are covered in glowing TronLines, they shoot EyeBeams, and explode when they die, leaving no trace of a body. Almost every other animal in the game is some weird robo-animal hybrid too.

** The morally grey ex-Navy SEAL Rex infiltrating an island warzone filled with angry mutants, non-human enemies, and pissed-off mercenaries under a madman's control mirrors the setup of the original ''VideoGame/FarCry''.

''Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon'' (a 2013 game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released on PSN, Xbox Live Arcade, and PC) is a stand-alone expansion of ''VideoGame/FarCry3''; you don't have to own ''Far Cry 3'' to play ''Blood Dragon'', but having played ''Far Cry 3'' may help you get used to ''Blood Dragon's'' controls. The expansion game serves up a [[AffectionateParody love letter]] to [[TheEighties '80s]] action movies (and videogames of roughly the same era) -- it takes place on a bizarre, neon-colored island crawling with [[EverythingTryingToKillYou killer robot soldiers and robot animals]], and it features a musical score filled with cheesy synthesizer music.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Par for the course, [[TheEighties considering the subject matter]]. You can upgrade Rex's Fazertron to fire these, giving it a huge damage boost and turning it from your typical assault rifle to a blaster. Strangely, both the enemy cyborg army and the friendly scientists use the laser-firing version by default. And then, of course, the Blood Dragons [[EyeBeams shoot these from their eyes.]]

** The Fazertron starts out as a three round burst only kinetic weapon. Fullt upgrading it gives it [[MoreDakka full auto capability]] , [[FrickinLaserBeams laser rounds]], and a ludicrously large magazine.

In the grim future of 2007, American cyber-soldier [[AwesomeMcCoolname Sergeant Rex "Power" Colt]] (voiced by [[Creator/MichaelBiehn Michael]] "[[Film/TheTerminator Kyle Reese]]" [[Creator/MichaelBiehn Biehn]]) travels to a remote island to destroy a rogue robot army led by his former mentor, Sloan. Armed with a wide array of weapons and accompanied by fellow soldier [[BlackBestFriend Spider]] (and HotScientist Dr. Darling later on), Rex has to get the girl, [[KillEmAll kill the bad guys]], and [[SavingTheWorld save the world]] from [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment the apocalypse's apocalypse]].

* BlackBestFriend: Spider, the African-American cyborg commando who is the Caucasian Rex's friend and partner.

* KonamiCode: The game's official website has "Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A" scribbled in the upper right corner. Using it and hitting Enter will then make anything you click on explode in a cheesy gif fireball. [[http://fc3blooddragon.us.ubi.com/shop.php See for yourself.]]

* MagikarpPower: The [[SawedOffShotgun Galleria 1991]] starts out hampered by its slow reload time and horrid accuracy. It can be upgraded to shoot semi-automatic, fire multiple shots at once, and load incendiary rounds, turning it into a OneHitKill on just about anything at close range, and one of the more efficient ways of killing blood dragons.

* BondOneLiner: The scriptwriters gave Colt lots of hammy one-liners when he kills a {{mook}} to add to the game's '80s parody atmosphere.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The eponymous Blood Dragons have all the characteristics of archetypical carnivorous dinosaurs, plus [[{{Cyborg}} a few]] [[EyeBeams additional]] [[TronLines traits]].

* GameBreakingBug: Due to what UbiSoft claims is a problem with some UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} keys, the PC version is prone to crashing every five minutes on some computers.

* FunWithAcronyms: "[[{{Badass}} Battle Armored Dragon Assault Strike System]]", the "Amphibian Shark-Squid Hybrid Attack Titan", and "[[PrecisionFStrike Fails to Understand our Capacity for Kindness".]]

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Unlike the main game, this game takes place in a cyberpunk version of the "distant future year" of...2007. Also, the retro-futuristic weapons and robotic enemies are all brand new, though the execution animations and overall gameplay remain the same. [[spoiler: And then you start shooting zombies in a medieval castle for some reason and all bets are off!]]

* [[spoiler:DeathRay: The Killstar, which you unlock late in the game, can kill most mooks on contact and take out stronger enemies like dragons quickly. Only downside is that it's CastFromHitPoints but it takes so long to get through even one bar (which instantly recovers on its own) and by the time you get it you'll have health to spare.]]

* LostForever: Want to get all achievements for the game? Well you better make sure to headshot every enemy ''before'' beating the main campaign, because a couple enemy classes only appear in the final missions of the game, meaning that if you want to get the "One True Stopper" achievement, you have to start the whole game over.

* RatedMForManly: In that cheesy, over-the-top 80s sci-fi kind of way. Everything bleeds neon, lessening the impact, but gore is still copious.
** TestosteronePoisoning: To truly absurd levels.

* ShoutOut: Now has [[ShoutOut/FarCry3BloodDragon its own page.]]

* InkSuitActor: The protagonist looks pretty much like Michael Beihn with a cyber-eye.

* ViewersAreMorons: Parodied in the tutorial, which was specifically built to piss people off by treating them as dumb. For example: "Press A/X to show that you can read".

''Trials of the Blood Dragon'', a spin-off starring [[SpinOffspring Rex and Darling's kids]] was later announced, developed by Redlynx and is a physics-based vehicle game in the vein of ''Videogame/{{Trials}}''.

''Trials of the Blood Dragon'', a spin-off starring Rex and Darling's kids was later announced, developed by Redlynx and is a physics-based vehicle game in the vein of ''Videogame/Trials''.