Comments on: Riddick: Assault On Dark Athena Trailer

By: James T

James T — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:09:25 +0000

I’m just playing it now, and that respawny tunnel part is, like, 5 minutes long. I’m pretty sure I took no damage at all; not exactly a deal-breaker, there.

It’s my first playthrough of CoR, and I’m enjoying it greatly; ‘Dark Athena’ shall have my money, appalling name be damned!

It seems unusual that it would’ve started simply as a remake though — doesn’t seem to me that Butcher Bay needs remaking even now, let alone when DA was announced about 18 months ago (although I welcome it as a bonus to a new game). It’s like remaking Half-Life 2. But I guess they’ve got their eye on the purses of people who came in with the 360/PS3. And people do prefer getting in on the ground floor, one way or another…

By: absentblue

absentblue — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:30:48 +0000

@Scandalon: It is a different engine, probably the one they used for the less-awesome-but-still-really-awesome Darkness. Like Senethro said though the first, like this one, was an in-house engine. I do remember it came out prior to Doom III and a lot of people, myself included, thought it used the id Tech 4 engine given the visual similarities.

Fantastic game though! Pitch Black was decent and I didn’t hate CoR like most people did, but EFBB made me like the Riddick character as a whole seeing him be put to good use.

Shame about that underground tunnel part, it was the one disappointing part. Not that it wasn’t fun, or was broken, or anything like that but Starbreeze maintains such a high quality that running around blowing mutants to kingdom-come end-over-end was such a contrast and a great lull to an other-wise perfectly orchestrated experience.

Definitely one of my favorite games of all time, I can’t wait for this… now I’m just wondering if I should get it for PC or 360.

By: thefanciestofpants

thefanciestofpants — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:30:13 +0000

Oh hell yes.

Hopefully has ace developer commentary like Escape from butcher bay.

Love these guys

By: Dante

Dante — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:42:03 +0000

I’ve still got an old xbox version of the last Riddick lying around, I should really dig it out and finish it sometime.

The tutorial remains one of the most inspired I’ve ever played.

By: adem

adem — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:30:06 +0000

Thanks danielcardigan, I thought I was the only one. I know the movies aren’t really ‘quality cinema’ but I thought they were really enjoyable for what they were.

Looking forward to this game, I was going to buy the original from eBay but I think I’ll just wait for this now instead.

By: Senethro

Senethro — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:22:57 +0000

Just to clear up a little misinformation going around, Riddick does not use the Doom3 engine. Yes, it looks a little similar and came out around the same time, but its Starbreeze’s own inhouse engine.

By: danielcardigan

danielcardigan — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:11:34 +0000

I liked Chronicles. 1 man with a couple of knives versus about a million armoured gun toting minions? Death by tea cup? Brilliant film.

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:23:31 +0000

Does it have the infamous screwdriver-sniffing thing?

By: pkt-zer0

pkt-zer0 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:11:19 +0000

People going “wait there is a remake as well?” have it a bit backwards. This game was supposed to be a remake originally, but somehow managed to turn into a sequel over time with all the added content, apparently.

By: karthik

karthik — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:50:02 +0000

(Fans of the original game should see how many scenes from that they recognise in the trailer.)
I counted eight. Maybe nine.
Ahh, memories. Come to think of it, Riddick looked fantastic for its time, and still does with a few tweaks. Bump the settings to pixel shader 2.0+, with everything else on high, and I’d say it comes fairly close to the trailer.

By: Hermit

Hermit — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:21:36 +0000

Also, wow, I used the word ‘awesome’ far too much there.

By: Hermit

Hermit — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:19:56 +0000

Yeah, Pitch Black was a good film but Chronicles was poor. doesn’t change the fact that Butcher Bay was awesome though. If they’re still including the original game and Dark Athena as one package this is like two games in one, which is just awesome.

Saw some stuff today about the multiplayer too, the Pitch Black mode sounds highly entertaining. One bloke plays Riddick, everyone else plays soldiers with flashlights in very dark maps. Given that Hidden Source is awesome I’m surprised that it took this long for a commercial game to follow the idea up.