A next gen redux of the splendid Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay is underway with developers Starbreeze finally confirming Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena which is due to debut on Xbox 360 and PS3 before the end of this year.
Dark Athena will be more than a simple port of the original game though, which went great guns in its original Xbox incarnation and really put Starbreeze on the development map. Dark Athena will apparently boast an additional 40 per cent single-player content set on board the scavenger ship Dark Athena. What that means we can only guess, but it certainly sounds intriguing and it looks like some kind of assault will be in order.
However, word is one of the main attractions of Dark Athena will be a superb multiplayer mode, with visceral hand-to-hand combat and shiny shiv action featuring heavily if it follows the course of the original game.
More details to follow soon, but what would you want from a next-gen Riddick. Unleash your spoogings in the comments field below.
I have the PC version of Escape from Butcher Bay... It will be interesting to see how much better the next-gen overhaul will look in comparison to the PC version of Butcher Bay running in 1680x1050 with everything at full. They'll have to do more than upping the resolution for 360/PS3, which is great. The original is still a very good looking game.
If the extra content ends up being worth the money, I'm in.
Riddick was a blast. Multiplayer online would be fab. but the real Bomb-diggety would be SPLIT-SCREEN Versus. keep it like Halo, and link boxes for 4 vs 4 Gameplay with your Smart-mouthed peeps. ok ok, so we cant share a screen on Live/PC.... but if you invest in these controllers, I'll be damned if I can't use them. the future is trying to do away with friendly Neighborly comraderie-style fragfests. thank God for Far cry, and Old XBOX games for those peeps that want to compete at home....
Woah, so they're finally releasing a new Riddick game for us to go out and spend our cash on? Genius!
Oh, hang on. a full 60% of the game will be recycled from the first one? They'd better release it cheap, then, as there's no way I'm paying full-price for a game I already bought once...
Just a patch would be nice to sort it out, or even an addon pack... Maybe even sort out the problem the game seems to have with dual core cpus. We need more Riddick, in games and film.
This needs a sequel, not a rework/remake. The original was great if flawed but it's had its time and they should try to do something more than better visuals.
I'd like to see them do a more open ended sequel, sort of like Deus Ex (the original) meets Riddick. The pseudo-open sections of the original were fantastic in atmosphere and feel and made it a better game than titles which were meant to really be open ended like Deus Ex 2 (blech).
Up that gameplay factor by a level or two and you could have a new classic in your hands.
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