So did no one play Chronicles Of Riddick?

[DudeistBelieve]

Pick this up at my gamestop for 6 dollars. two campaigns. one's a remake of an Xbox game apparently.

I'm almost finished with the first campaign (Escape from butcher bay), I can't believe this isn't talked about in the same breath of the Bioshock franchise. It's a nifty little FPS with stealth elements, and plays kinda like those old school FPS where you need to find keys to unlock the door and what not.

 

[ScrabbitRabbit]

I have Escape From Butcher Bay on the original Xbox and it's one of my favourite FPS games. Slightly disappointing final stretch and it's a little short, but everything else is perfect. The graphics are incredible for the Xbox as well.

I got Assault on Dark Athena from GOG last year and, while the Escape campaign is still fun, it's just not the same as the original. There were some bits where it forces you to fight where you could sneak past in the original (the first fight against one of the mechs comes to mind). Still a fantastic game, though.

 

[daveman247]

Pick this up at my gamestop for 6 dollars. two campaigns. one's a remake of an Xbox game apparently.

I'm almost finished with the first campaign (Escape from butcher bay), I can't believe this isn't talked about in the same breath of the Bioshock franchise. It's a nifty little FPS with stealth elements, and plays kinda like those old school FPS where you need to find keys to unlock the door and what not.

I still champion it as one of the best film-licensed games ever made. Hell I think it made a better game than film

Dark athena is still good, but butcher bay is the better of the two.

The way it blended several gameplay styles (stealth, shooting and a bit of RPG'ing) was fresh and new at the time.

Too bad starbreeze have failed to top butcher bay yet. Which is funny, since I think it was their first game too.

 

[shrekfan246]

Yeah, I played it a few months back. It was really good. Slow opening, but once you got the night-vision I felt like it really picked up.

The melee combat was a bit more fun in Dark Athena because you got Riddick's Ulaks and a few new weapons, but it had an absolutely abysmal final boss-fight. One of the worst I've ever seen, which is too bad because the rest of Dark Athena was still just about as good as Butcher Bay.

Like Yahtzee said in his review though, the spider turrets in Dark Athena can go to hell...

 

[Zhukov]

Ehhhhh...

Butcher Bay was alright. Although I felt it didn't do itself any favours with the shooting bits. Would have been better as a "pure" stealth game with brawly bits.

Dark Athena felt like a step down. Oh, and then there was that bit after you get down to the planet. That was just plain crap.

Also, I kinda hate Ricddick as a character. There's this one bit in Dark Athena where he comes across a child stowaway hiding in the vents. He promptly starts growling "badass" lines at her. ("No, not hiding, I'm hunting.") At a scared eight year old kid. What the fuck is wrong with this guy? Both games come across as being a bit too much in love with him, going to great efforts to show him as a total badass who eats bullets for breakfast and the beating hearts of his enemies for dinner. Gets real tiresome real quick. And don't even get me started on "furions".

 

[The Madman]

Sure, when the game came out it got plenty of good press but that was also around 8-9 years ago which in videogame time might as well have been a century ago.

Good game though, definitely. Still even looks pretty good on the PC so definitely worth checking out if anyone who hasn't played the game is thinking about it.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

Ehhhhh...

Butcher Bay was alright. Although I felt it didn't do itself any favours with the shooting bits. Would have been better as a "pure" stealth game with brawly bits.

Dark Athena felt like a step down. Oh, and then there was that bit after you get down to the planet. That was just plain crap.

Also, I kinda hate Ricddick as a character. There's this one bit in Dark Athena where he comes across a child stowaway hiding in the vents. He promptly starts growling "badass" lines at her. ("No, not hiding, I'm hunting.") At a scared eight year old kid. What the fuck is wrong with this guy? Both games come across as being a bit too much in love with him, going to great efforts to show him as a total badass who eats bullets for breakfast and the beating hearts of his enemies for dinner. Gets real tiresome real quick. And don't even get me started on "furions".

Near as I can tell, Riddick is a sociopath. It be odd for him to have any positive interaction with a child... I dunno, I'm just going off Butcher Bay which I just beat.

Sure, when the game came out it got plenty of good press but that was also around 8-9 years ago which in videogame time might as well have been a century ago.

Good game though, definitely. Still even looks pretty good on the PC so definitely worth checking out if anyone who hasn't played the game is thinking about it.

Maybe I'm in a rock, on mars, because I feel the same way about this game that I do Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Seems like a total sleeper hit.

The gameplay holds up big time. Totally playable, I played it after finishing Bioshock Infinite.

 

[LetalisK]

I tried playing Escape from Butcher Bay a long time ago. Unfortunately, it kept crashing on me at an early point(I think I was in the vents?) and I never figured out how to fix it. Maybe I should give it another try.

 

[piinyouri]

I tried the demo that was on the movie disc half a lifetime ago.
Was very pleasantly surprised.

 

[shrekfan246]

Also, I kinda hate Ricddick as a character. There's this one bit in Dark Athena where he comes across a child stowaway hiding in the vents. He promptly starts growling "badass" lines at her. ("No, not hiding, I'm hunting.") At a scared eight year old kid. What the fuck is wrong with this guy? Both games come across as being a bit too much in love with him, going to great efforts to show him as a total badass who eats bullets for breakfast and the beating hearts of his enemies for dinner. Gets real tiresome real quick. And don't even get me started on "furions".

Well... you're not really supposed to like Riddick as a character though. He's as much a 'hero' as Kratos is. I don't know if you've ever seen the two films, but Riddick was never built up as a relateable guy. He's every bit the 'badass' to 12-year old Kyra in Pitch Black.

I get not liking him and all, and it's a lame excuse since you're playing the guy, but still.

 

[DementedSheep]

I have it, good games but I never finished the second one. I might at some point but it's pretty much the same as the fist one, playing them back to back got too repetitive, the story and characters weren't nearly interesting enough to make me bother pushing past that and I don't really have any motivation to pick it up again.

 

[DarklordKyo]

I've got Dark Athena (and, by extension, Butcher Bay) on Steam, I really need to work on them.

 

[aaronobst]

I played Butcher Bay on PC yonks ago and loved it dearly.

Never played Dark Athena, is it worth it?

 

[Rastrelly]

Pick this up at my gamestop for 6 dollars. two campaigns. one's a remake of an Xbox game apparently.

I'm almost finished with the first campaign (Escape from butcher bay), I can't believe this isn't talked about in the same breath of the Bioshock franchise. It's a nifty little FPS with stealth elements, and plays kinda like those old school FPS where you need to find keys to unlock the door and what not.

It was quite praised at a time. But it didn't get any development, so everyone has forgotten it. It kinda remains in the memories shaded by "Doom 3 vs Half-Life 2" battle of '04.

 

[Something Amyss]

Butcher Bay is well talked about on these very boards. Not wure where you get the idea that nobody played it.

 

[SomebodyNowhere]

with the new movie on the way it might be time to dust off my copy of butcher bay, I remember getting much of the way through it, but at some point getting distracted away from the game and never going back

 

[BreakfastMan]

I fecking love Butcher Bay and have had my copy for years. One of my favorite games for the original Xbox. Can't speak for Dark Athena, but I heard it was decent. Still, Butcher Bay is a classic in my eyes.

 

[Vandenberg1]

Pick this up at my gamestop for 6 dollars. two campaigns. one's a remake of an Xbox game apparently.

I'm almost finished with the first campaign (Escape from butcher bay), I can't believe this isn't talked about in the same breath of the Bioshock franchise. It's a nifty little FPS with stealth elements, and plays kinda like those old school FPS where you need to find keys to unlock the door and what not.

Butcher Bay was a good game, but some of the quest in the prison were way outta date in the way they went about it. The creatures were just awful, but I did appreciate the old school difficulty of it all. It was a hard game with a good Riddik characterization. The stealth mossttlyyy worked and I loved shooting all the lights. Dark Athena.. I started it but have not finished since I stopped being active duty. I got better games since, like Inifinite, but Butcher Bay was damn good...If the ending was only better

 

[DoPo]

Butcher Bay is well talked about on these very boards. Not wure where you get the idea that nobody played it.

In all fairness, it's just not mentioned as much. Sure I've seen it but I think mostly in threads about movie tie in games, I can't recall if I encountered it in a different thread. Perhaps.

At any rate I never played it - I recall it was one of the first games my PC couldn't handle at the time, so I never got it. By the time I upgraded, I didn't really think of looking back and picking up what I missed. I also didn't play Splinter Cell for the same reason.