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    The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

    Game » consists of 9 releases. Released Apr 07, 2009

    Both a remake and expansion to the critically-acclaimed Xbox and PC title The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Dark Athena features both the original campaign, an all-new campaign and new multiplayer modes.

    batmanlives's The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (Xbox 360) review

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    Awesome fun for countless hours!

    The game offers a combination of stealth and action mixed together. Not much to offer in Dark Athena in the form of sidequests but this does not takeaway from the fun, exciting aspect of the game itself. The dialogue is tacky and Riddick's one liners are rather corny but it just adds to the general fun of the experience. The remake of the original Butcher Bay game looks stunning and is a complete remastering of the original xbox masterpiece. The game tells a prologue tall to the cheesey film and is well worth playing for any gamer who enjoys an impressive shooter/action game.

    Other reviews for The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (Xbox 360)

      Heavy handed action 0

      The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay had an atmospheric combination of action and stealth that managed to be entertaining, even if it was a bit short and straightforward. Five years later we get a remake/expansion pack, Assault on Dark Athena, and it seems that not a whole lot has changed for Riddick in that time. Dark Athena provides the same brand of heavy handed action that its predecessor did, and delivers it in a similarly brief package. The result is a mixed bag whose validit...

      2 out of 2 found this review helpful.

      Keeping up with the Diesels 0

      Vin Diesel is in the midst of the safest comeback attempt I’ve seen in a long time, in that it appears that he’s revisiting every property he’s ever seen any success in. First he reprised his role in the latest Fast and the Furious movie, alongside most of the original cast in a movie that was all too identical to all movies Fast and Furious before it. And now we revisit the Riddick character in his only multimedia release that ever garnered any form of acclaim; the video game The Chronicles of ...

      0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

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