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If there’s anything that gets me more excited than a new Vin Diesel movie, it’s a new Vin Diesel game. Above is a trailer for the upcoming title The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. Much like the beginning of any proper Riddick movie, the trailer features a brilliant but chilling narrative by the game’s antihero Riddick. More importantly, it illustrates a point that Hamza drove home in his preview today – the game’s developer Starbreeze is doing much more than simply remaking Escape from Butcher Bay.
Dark Athena will feature enhanced visuals, new character models, and a wide assortment of new content. The game will retain that characteristic mix of FPS action, grittiness, and stealth that the majority of players came to love from the previous title.
Dark Athena will be hitting the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and the PC in Spring 2009. It’s a long wait, but it seems as though it will be worth it.
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8:00 PM on 12.03.2008
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Also, it was pretty much one of two things I ever thought Vin Diesel was actually any good in, lol. The movies based on Riddick suck in my opinion and Vin Diesel was never really good in any of the movies he's been in except one and the title of that movie escapes my memory at the moment. Actually, I think it was called Find Me Guilty. So along with that movie and Escape from Butcher Bay, those were the only times I ever thought he was any good.
I'm really looking forward to this game, it should be great.
That's what I thought anyways.
(Quarter= $.25, Loonie= $1.00)
The graphics actually don't look that bad at all, could be cool.
Of course, so did the most recent Riddick movie. Ick.
In any event, it looks like something to at least keep a close eye on.
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay - PC
The PC version looks noticable better than the XBox (aka original) version of Escape From Butcher Bay, but even that doesn't compare to what is seen in this remake. I don't see how anyone can think it looks anywhere near the same.
If you played it on the crappy low res xbox with out the added bloom and extra lighting high res textures/normal maps filters and all that crap then Ya i guess it might look better to you now.
The game already looked like a doom 3/"insert doom engine game here" clone game already back and I thought it only look alright then.
Not impressed after that long wait.
Also the original was WAY better of a game than Doom3.
But the doom 3 engine looks better on ultra so it wins, not talking about gameplay.
and I don't know what settings that PC riddick screen shot is taken on but the game I am playing does not look that bad.
PC original: http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/644/riddickscreenqm7.jpg
Remake: http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/4301/athenaputemupku7.jpg
I'm not seeing this huge difference. Depth of Field blur really isn't all that good of an improvement. Texture and model-wise, it's on par.
The screenshot you posted isn't at max settings, either- dynamic shadows are on, but bump mapping isn't, which is pretty skewed of the real appearance.
I'm not knocking Athena. I'm saying that it's not a graphical upgrade from the original, which was a damn fine game.
they should have just started over with the engine and if that is a new engine I am even more not impressed.