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[quote]The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay is a first-person action and stealth video game developed by Starbreeze Studios and published by Vivendi Games. Released for the Xbox and Windows in 2004, the game is a tie-in prequel to the futuristic science fiction film The Chronicles of Riddick. Actor Vin Diesel—who was involved in the game's development—reprises his role as that film's protagonist, Richard B. Riddick.
The game follows Riddick, the anti-hero of the two films Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick, as he attempts to escape from a maximum-security prison called Butcher Bay. Escape from Butcher Bay's designers focused on exploring Riddick's character in a prison break setting to differentiate the game from the film. The game's influences include the film Escape from Alcatraz, and video games such as Half-Life and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell.
Escape from Butcher Bay was praised by critics, who lauded its graphics and its implementation of stealth, action and adventure elements. However, they commonly lamented its brevity and lack of multiplayer components. The game went on to win several accolades, including the Golden Joystick Award for Unsung Hero Game of the Year and the Spike Video Game Award for Best Game Based on a Movie. An enhanced remake of the game, included in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, was released in 2009. In 2013, IGN ranked Escape from Butcher Bay as the 27th greatest first-person shooter of all time.[/quote]
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[quote]Dark Athena has improved graphics and AI from Butcher Bay along with the addition of a multiplayer mode. The single player mode has also been expanded to include Riddick escaping onto a mercenary ship called Dark Athena. Vin Diesel, the voice and likeness of the title character, was involved in the production of Assault on Dark Athena.[/quote]
Didn't see a thread for this, thought it totally deserved one though. I've only just discovered Butcher's Bay/Dark Athena now, and shit it looks fantastic for it being five years old and I'm having a ton of fun with it. I don't know how this slipped under my radar, Vin Diesel is the man. lot of fairly well known actors voice characters in the game too besides Vin Diesel (Michael Rooker, Ron Perlman, Cole Houser)
Late as hell but a lot of people probably don't even know about it, definitely worth checking out. The re-release is $15 on gog: [url]http://www.gog.com/game/the_chronicl...on_dark_athena[/url]
anyway its p fockin fun m8
oh yea
i still need to finish the game, i remembered it was really cool
Because of this thread I just ordered a copy of butcher bay.
loved it on the xbox.
oh and xzibit is in it too, not even kidding
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I've finished Butcher Bay but not Dark Athena, heard it was worse than BB though. Might as well play it now that I'm doing a Butcher Bay replay though.
i got to some underground area in butcher bay and fucked up by killing a friendly guy
lol, fuck restarting
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