Comments Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - Games - review

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Xiphias

11:11 PM on 26 April, 2009

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I think the reason most of us avoided the first game because it was a movie tie in and only had a one in a hundred chance of being any good. As this one isn't released alongside any movie it should get much more interest.

(And I haven't bagged a copy of Gears of War yet because it always seemed overpriced or out of stock. The cheapest I can see it now is £20 where other 2006 games like obvilion or Medieval II: Total war can be had for half that.)

The review doesn't state it explicitly so does this new version include all of the original or is there any reason to buy that as well as this?

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TheEvilGenius

10:39 AM on 27 April, 2009

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@ Xiphias the new version contains both the polished version of the original and the Dark Athena "expansion pack", so no need to buy the original.

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StuAndrews

10:47 AM on 27 April, 2009

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I thought the review did cover this, but this is basically an HD remaster of Escape from Butcher Bay with the Assault on Dark Athena campaign on top. Structurally, it seems to be the same as the enhanced PC version of Escape from Butcher Bay with the graphics updated and the engine replaced by the engine Starbreeze used for The Darkness.

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Mik3yB

11:19 AM on 27 April, 2009

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@Stuart - how long is Dark Athena? I remember EFBB being a good 20 hours or thereabouts and one of them that completely hooks you from start to finish. It had the "I'll just play this little section before bed" and 2 hours later still playing..

What are the acheivements like? Are they like orange box where they're balanced across both games equally? Not really a selling point in any way, just curious!

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StuAndrews

12:20 PM on 27 April, 2009

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It's hard to put a figure on it because I was playing it in stints over about two weeks, but I'd say that I put in a good twelve hours on the game at the medium difficulty setting. I'm not sure it's as consistently brilliant as Butcher Bay - I had a few bits in the middle section where I was beginning to get fed up - but while it's great it definitely has that 'just one more section' feel.

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