
Presently, however, retail releases are having a little sleepy time after the big spunky blow-out of Quarter 1, so let's ride the wave of the future and motherfuckin' download some shit, starting with Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon! You might as well accept that some people are always gonna want physical copies of games, if only because deleting a game just doesn't give you the same sense of closure as microwaving it. "Okay, I guess we'll stock it on this shelf here, behind a rack of Nancy Drew hidden object games and a series of rotating knives!"Ĭome on, guys, learn to live with each other. "Also we're designing future console hardware so that if you put a pre-owned game in it, it will catch fire and launch hot acid at your eyeballs." "What was that about a new console?", go the game retailers.

"Retail? Pah! Direct download is what all the cool kids use!", cry the game publishers. The relationship between retailers and game publishers reminds me of the British coalition government they're like two people who have to work together but you can tell from their toothy smiles and firm handshakes that both are waiting for the other to flinch, just for an instant, so that they can rip off their shirts and start clawing for the eyeballs. This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. We have prepared for you a complete set of cliches of the VHS era.Your Game Music is Bland and You Should Feel Bad Your task is to find a girl, kill the scoundrels and save the world.

In the courtyard of 2007, you are Sergeant Rex Colt, a cyborg commando who fights with an army of insurgent machines.

Welcome to the future, as we saw it in the era of video cassettes. Video card: Radeon HD2900 or GeForce 8800GTX, (512 MB), (Shader Model 3.0), (DirectX 9) Radeon HD7000 or GeForce 600, (512 MB), (Shader Model 5.0), (DirectX 11) OS: Windows XP (SP3), Windows Vista (SP2), Windows 7ĬPU: Intel Core®2 Duo E6700 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+
