Recommended if you’ve not played the original for that alone though.

Agree about DA. I haven’t quite finished it (having fun with the hard to spot, OMG!!! I’m dead spider turrets atm…restart checkpoint hell…). The game starts off so well (though the tendency for Riddick to run off the crates when ascending the cargo bay wall was a tad frustrating) , but when it suddenly descends into lousy aim, not much health, precision opponent shooter hell it loses a lot of appeal. Still I intend to finish it.

That was a bother to me, as I liked to use various ranged weapons while closing in for some melee fun. I felt that the weapons were useful as a backup plan mostly, when they spot you early. Ofcourse this approach is heavy on the checkpoint loading.

Also this was the first game I cheered at after the obligatory YOU LOST YOUR WEAPONS, OOOPS trope. Great and long game, just don’t play it immediately after EFBB.

I only look at sites that carry scene releases, having just looked I am of course wrong and some clever independent came up with a solution. Plus ca change.

Had to look that statement up and found this:

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (c) Atari Games
.:: RELEASE INFO ::.
Release Date …. 2009.04.08
Game Type ……. Shooter
Game Size ……. 1 x DVD
Image Type …… .bin/.cue
Protection …… CD-KEY
…
.:: HOW TO PLAY ::.
1) Unrar
2) Burn or Mount
3) Install
4) Enjoy

Sounds pretty cracked to me

See, this is why people suck. AODA without a doubt, blows Butcher’s Bay out of the water. Athena for the most part leaves the options of how you want to approach it up to you. It also has just much more interesting level design and pacing to boot. The fact that people prefer to not be imaginative and think the better game is the one where you’re forced down corridors and essentially told what actions to perform every single moment along the way, and usually fail if you don’t perform that one specific action, breaks my heart. If you think BB is the better half, then I’m sure you’ll love Velvet Assassin.

I’ll definitely grant that you’re imaginative — I’m on the final few maps of Dark Athena right now, and there has been absolutely no multiplicity of solutions; both the Riddick games are highly linear (which I mean as no great slight against EfBB, I’m fond of that one) , the only way in which Dark Athena is less channelled is that you are more frequently (well, constantly) asked, as Warren Spector once put it, “which gun am I going to kill you with?”
Unfortunately, none of the guns are suited to the task. The accuracy of the assault rifle is poor beyond belief, the submachinegun requires a full clip to kill someone (in fact, so does the shotgun, I just checked. At point blank range), and the SCAR gun is… well, dogshit (”I would like projectiles that move faster than people walk, please.” “Oops, sorry, can’t help you there!”). You’re stuck grinding your way through room after room, over and over again because your fucking guns don’t work, no hope of stealth or cleverness, just emptying endless clips until the bores you’re up against finally keel over and you can go looking for the next ventilation shaft.

“Every time someone mentions Deus Ex on the Internet, someone else will reinstall it.”

That reminds me I need to reinstall Deus Ex at some point to play that mod/expansion thingy-ma-bob.

That is only true, up until the halfway point. Then you are stuck IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, for most of the game.

@Alez

It appears we have a new AIM on the scene.

“Every time someone mentions Deus Ex on the Internet, someone else will reinstall it.”