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Article #696998Re: Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon Free
From: Toby Newman
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 09:26
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 09:26
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On 2016-11-09, Spalls Hurgenson <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Heads up; Ubisoft is giving away Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon for free. > > FarCry 3 Blood Dragon is a stand-alone expansion to the base game. > Well, expansion is perhaps not the right word since not only doesn't > it continue the story or game play of FarCry 3, it is radically > different from the original. It was well received for its satirical > neon-saturated take on 80s action movies and games. Personally, I > found it a bit of a one-trick pony but free is free, right? > > It does require a UPlay account and client, but I don't think that's > much of an impediment (honestly, if you are okay with Steam than > neither EA's Origin nor Ubisoft's UPlay are really that much > different). I bought this on Steam a while back but, like Far Cry 3, it had a save bug. I've played the (interminable) intro about 5 times trying to troubleshoot it and now never want to play it again. -- -Toby Add the word afiduluminag to the subject to circumvent my email filters.
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