Ubisoft’s return to Steam has continued slowly however certainly since September 2024, when the corporate lastly determined that sufficient was sufficient and it was time to start out promoting video games the place folks truly wish to purchase them. That means day-one releases on Steam, which is an enormous deal in its personal proper, however Ubisoft has been going an additional step by including Steam achievements to its older video games on the storefront. That’s good, though it would not actually curiosity me personally—or a minimum of it did not till at the moment, as a result of at the moment Ubisoft introduced that love to what’s presumably its biggest videogame ever.
I’m after all speaking about Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, the “’80s imaginative and prescient of the longer term” starring Rex “Power” Colt, whose mission within the futuristic world of 2007 is to kill all the things, get the lady, and save the world. “Experience each cliché of a VHS period imaginative and prescient of a nuclear future, the place cyborgs, blood dragons, mutants, and Michael Biehn collide,” the Steam web page guarantees, and let me inform you as somebody who grew up within the period of Terminator, Aliens, and Navy Seals, it really works: It’s dumber than hell and an absolute blast.
Blood Dragon is, at its core, a Far Cry sport, however it strips out a number of the extraneous nonsense in favor of a concentrate on blasting and tacky one-liners. Schwarzenegger, Stallone, and Van Damme did not fear in regards to the niceties of a coherent story, so why do you have to? Naturally the expertise is only in case you have an appreciation for ’80s motion flicks, and the jokes can generally put on a bit skinny, however even with out that context it is precisely the form of top-tier foolish enjoyable you’d count on from a sport a couple of man who’s received “the robo-balls to destroy evil.”
(That’s a Rex Colt assure, by the way in which.)
So there’s quite a bit to suggest about Blood Dragon (the soundtrack is nice too), and now there’s Steam achievements on prime of all the things else. The achievements aren’t fairly as on-point as I might’ve made them—I’m certain Ubisoft might’ve simply stuffed the checklist with nice film quotes—however they’re enjoyable in their very own proper. A couple of notable examples:
- Nice Like Jesus
- Murder Nature
- What Are You Reading For?
- Running Man
- Derp
- The Drug of the Nation
If you have already unlocked Blood Dragon achievements in Ubisoft Connect, they will routinely switch over while you launch the sport on Steam. And look, I admit, slamming achievements on a 12-year-old shooter is not the largest deal ever, however it’s Blood Dragon! I’ll by no means not take the chance to wave my arms round and discuss Blood Dragon, the one Ubisoft sport I’ve ever actually beloved—and one which, even now, I generally discover onerous to consider was truly allowed to be made.
