Go Back To The 80's With "Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon"

In December, Ubisoft's "Far Cry 3" was released to great sales and near-universal critical acclaim- shipping over 4 million units as of February, and sitting at a 90% on review agitator Metacritic.

So what do you do after that if you're Ubisoft? Make an ultra-violent, corny 80's sci-fi-throwback DLC for it!

"Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon" is an upcoming DLC slated for a May 1st launch on PS3, X-Box 360, and PC. "Far Cry 3" will not be required, and the game with feature an 8 hour campaign, as well as a singular fully explorable island. "Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon" will feature Michael Beihn (Aliens, Terminator, The Rock) as Sgt. Rex 'Power' Colt.

Rock Paper Shotgun's Craig Pearson had a hand's on with 'Blood Dragon' and confirmed what the launch-trailer basically inferred:

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is stupid. It has a terrible story, one-dimensional characters, and there’s no emotional value in playing it whatsoever. I can’t even criticise it for all those things, because that’s everything Ubisoft wants the game to be. They think they’ve found a loophole in any criticism by deliberately aiming low. Hah! The joke’s on them! Blood Dragon is pretty good.

Marty Silva of IGN got a good 30 minutes in with 'Blood Dragon' which also confirmed robot lizards with eye-lasers. You read that right.

 If you don't tread carefully near the laser-firing lizards, you'll quickly find yourself torn to shreds. But using the various cybernetic hearts that you cultivate (read: rip out) from the bodies of your enemies, you can take control of the beasts and use them in a variety of tactical ways.

It might be too early to call; but i'd wager "Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon" will sweep any and all DLC awards that it's nominated for, unless we get a phenomenal DLC for "Bioshock: Infinite" that makes the game good.