Eight game spin-offs inspired by Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

5) Metal Gear Rising: Chopped

Blade Mode comes to the kitchen with Metal Gear Rising: Chopped. Cyber-chefs are served with a variety of intense challenges and must perfect their dishes to please a panel of cyber-judges. Use precision tools and Blade Mode to slice and dice your ingredients, then take on a whole new level of Metal Gear in Chef Mode. Select ingredients, cooking time, and more, then transition into Plating Mode for the finishing touches. Please the judges and you’ll be able to unlock new challenges and chef outfits.

6) BioShock Infinite: Rail Rider Xtreme

BioShock heads to ye olde nickelodeon for a fun day of arcade competition. Master the sky rails in this skill-based score attack game featuring moving targets, hidden challenge rooms, and collectible coins. Send Elizabeth out to retrieve score multipliers all the while racing from one checkpoint to the next for a time bonus. Features online leaderboards and 10 new achievements/trophies.

7) Forza Horizon: #YOLO Edition

After his upsetting loss in the Horizon competition, Darius Flint returns with a vengeful plot to regain his place as champion. Spiking the water supply with powerful hallucinogens, Flint hopes the rest of the racers will be lost in a rainbow kaleidoscope wonderland while he takes the win. What he doesn’t know is that you’ve been celebrating your past win taking Ayahuasca with a group of shamans. Navigate an otherworldly Colorado in this arcade racing experience where dubstep beats deform the track before your very eyes!

8) KirbyLife

Kirby’s adventures take him out of Dreamland and into downtown Detroit. There he’ll have to make difficult choices as he sucks up and assumes the forms of blue collar workers, single mothers, and convenience store owners just trying to get by. The food stamp applications are being processed, but will it be enough to make rent and feed the kids? Not when the evil King Dedede is outside repossessing Kirby’s car!

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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon took the heart of Far Cry 3 — the awesome open-world gameplay — and replaced the tropical plot with an 80s VHS vision of the future. It was so far out of left field that many assumed it was an April Fool’s joke. But here we are, Blood Dragon is real and awesome. Why stop there, though? Here are eight games that deserve the Blood Dragon treatment:

1) L.A. Noire: Cyberpunk Detective

The year is 2035 and private detective Jack Phelps is swamped in cases. A lung-clogging fog has descended on the slums of old LA and crime has run rampant. Solving crime isn’t like when his great grandfather was on the job. After all, how do you tell someone is lying when half their face is made of metal? Cyberpunk Detective offers ten new thrilling cases in a dark future city, bringing new challenges to the classic L.A. Noire gameplay.

2) The Walking Dead: Adventures in Babysitting

Inspired by the achievement of the same name, The Walking Dead: Adventures in Babysitting brings back your favorite cast members of Telltale’s award-winning game for a light-hearted comedy adventure. Doug has his hands full trying to babysit Clementine and Duck, juggling their antics with Larry the angry neighbor, and Molly, the girl down the road who he can’t stop thinking about. Can you help him make the right choices and save the day in this single-episode adventure?

3) Call of Duty: Lazer Tag

Lazer Tag just prestiged! Call of Duty: Lazer Tag combines the dark neon spectacle and fog machines of an American pastime with the epic shooter gameplay of Call of Duty. Take cover in four new maps: FunZone, LazerKingdom, Quazar, and ZapAttak! Unlock new perks including “Cover the Sensor”, “Pizza Break”, and “Wall Bounce.” Zombies return as well with a new area, Tom’s Play Palace, where four survivors must hold out against endless waves of small, pizza-starved children. Stay out of the ball pit or face the consequences!

4) Hitman: Secret Shopper

Super market sweep just got a lot more deadly. Hitman: Secret Shopper puts you in the role of Agent 88, a retired hitman looking for some simple part time work in a suburban town. Each mission takes you to a new locale where you must disguise yourself and seek out bad employees, thieves, and worse. Whether you’re protecting the mall or a grocery store, you’ll need to maintain a secret identity and dismiss the riffraff with your repertoire of deadly takedowns.