Similarly Spiders name is a reference to another iconic MK fighter "Scorpion". Mortal Kombat: The character "Spider" in Blood dragon has a very similar face-mask to the MK fighter "Sub-zero". Saint's Row: The Third: The name of one of the enemies in the game is "The Running Dead" which is a parody of the Walking Dead and the same name given to the zombie enemies in Saint's Row: The Third.
Apparently before he was forced to coach ragtag teens at hockey, he was a wunderkind at 80's arcade games and tank tops.Īdditionally on this level there is a reference to another old sci fi movie from 1984 called C.H.U.D. In the introduction to the mission " What is this S#!t?" Dr Darling references holding a high score in the game "Bishop of Battle." This is a reference to the 1983 movie Nightmares, a vignette-style collection of several stories (similar to the Twilight Zone movie) starring Coach Bombay himself, Emilio Estevez. Just listen to these two clips, one from Blood Dragon and the other from the film's score, and tell us it doesn't seem like something of a love letter to the original composer Brad Fiedel. Much of the background music in BloodDragon sounds as if it was taken right off the LP of 1984 Terminator soundtrack. However, Power Glove - the band behind the game's soundtrack, opted to take that connection one step further. Rex Power Colt, actor Michael Biehn, faced off with Arnold Schwarzenegger in James Cameron's original Terminator. Honestly, Rex Power Colt could easily be considered a direct ripoff of Alex Murphy's Robocop - even his marketing slogan is the same as the cyber-cops. 9 contains the initials of RoboCop himself, Alex J Murphy. It even reads in the game's weapon description that it "was built and named in honor of a fallen DPD cop who fell in the line of duty fighting the creeps of the Detroit megaslums and industrial wastelands." The name of the gun itself, the A.J.M. The design and burst-fire function of Rex's pistol is a direct homage to the classic 1987 movie RoboCop. You may think to yourself while blasting the guts out of Omega Force soldiers, "Hey, this pistol is kinda familiar," and there's a reason for that. We're sure there's no way they could be related to the sai-wielding pizza-scarfing teenage ninjas, despite the fact that they're eating pizza and wearing colored masks.Ĭome quietly or there will be.
This side mission at one of the liberated garrisons has you tracking down four mutated turtles who dwell in the sewer.