Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Dark Athena - Atari publishing, PC ver confirmed - by EvaUnit02
charlestheoaf on 4/12/2008 at 06:00
This looks pretty cool. I'm actually replaying the first at the moment :)
I just hope they manage to make it unique enough. One of my favorite things about EfBB was how it just seemed kind of...different. And each section of the game had varied gameplay.
If the sequel can feel just as new, I'll definitely get it.
Bjossi on 4/12/2008 at 06:20
I will buy this on day 1. I love CoR: EfBB.
Malf on 4/12/2008 at 06:41
My only worry now is that Atari (read: Infogrames) are publishing it. They have a tendency to push things out unfinished.
EvaUnit02 on 4/12/2008 at 09:17
Quote Posted by Malf
My only worry now is that Atari (read: Infogrames) are publishing it. They have a tendency to push things out unfinished.
I doubt that that will be a concern.
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While we've known for a while that Starbreeze's The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena would be an enhanced remake of the previous Riddick game with new content, it turns out that the new content amounts to a 10-hour single-player sequel.
The new campaign packs "new game mechanics, full-game production values ... the works," according to Joystiq, with Big Download clarifying that the campaign is a "direct sequel" to the original and is immediately accessible upon booting the game.
The scope of the new campaign stems from the first-person shooter's recent publisher-related delay. After the game was dropped by ex-publisher Sierra, Atari picked the game up, a move that allowed for more than nine months of additional work.Along with the new campaign, Athena will include a new multiplayer mode and an enhanced version of Starbreeze's 2004 release The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (PC, Xbox). Expect Dark Athena to hit PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in spring 2009.
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http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/56190)
N'Al on 4/12/2008 at 11:46
I'll definitely be picking this up as well, probably Day 1.
Loved the original, currently enjoying The Darkness very much, so this is pretty high up on my list.
henke on 6/12/2008 at 15:03
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HOORAY! Starbreeze.
I don't know. I played The Darkness a while back I'm starting to get the feeling that Starbreeze are a one-hit-wonder. I'm getting the feeling that Riddick was a fluke. I bought The Darkness on the strength of "it's by the guys who made Riddick, it has to be good!" and I kept forcing myself to keep thinking that way for a good part into the game. But eventually I had to face the truth that it's really not that good. It's very uneven for one thing, riddiculously easy in some parts and too hard in others. The story is shit and the characters are uninteresting and the Darkness itself is just so silly. There are good parts in it but it just has too many flaws to be on the same level as Riddick. And what about Starbreeze other games? (
http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/915053.asp?q=knights%20of%20the%20temple) Knights of the Temple, (
http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/562453.asp?q=enclave) Enclave and (
http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/430559.asp) The Outforce. None worth writing home about.
And this nagging feeling I have that Starbreeze are actually horribly mediocre is somehow
not being relieved by the fact that they are remaking the only great game they have ever made. I'll wait for the reviews before getting excited about this.
gunsmoke on 6/12/2008 at 15:47
I really like Enclave, I own it on both platforms. I also have always wanted to play Knights of the Temple...but I can't find it in USA>
Printer's Devil on 6/12/2008 at 17:51
Looking good. I remember playing through EFBB over the Christmas holidays a while back and thinking how strange an animal it was. Could an odd Euro-FPS based on a ho-hum Vin Diesel sci-fi franchise hold up? It did, right to the end, as it turned out. The only immersion breaker came from John DiMaggio voicing some of the guards. I only heard Bender, though he tried.
Fingers crossed that Starbreeze remembers what made EFBB so enjoyable and builds on it.
ercles on 9/12/2008 at 20:53
I hope they get this right, because it has the potential to be awesome. I thought the common problem with these sort of gam modes (1 awesome guy versus many ordinary ones) is that a) it's pretty dull to be the ordinary guy, and b) once you get someone good enough as the awesome character, it's very difficult to kill them.
