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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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Trevor McGee's Avatar
Trevor McGee at 12/03/2008 20:24
Escape from Butcher Bay was one of the few movie based games that was actually good. I'm still surprised that there are people who didn't even know about it considering that it was probably one of the XBox's best games and one of the better FPS games of last generation.

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.
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mix at 12/03/2008 20:26
"If there’s anything that gets me more excited than a new Vin Diesel movie, it’s...pulling a loonie out of your pocket when you thought it was a quarter"

That's what I thought anyways.

(Quarter= $.25, Loonie= $1.00)

The graphics actually don't look that bad at all, could be cool.
Roryzilla's Avatar
Roryzilla at 12/03/2008 20:29
This game looks amazing.
10BobMarleys's Avatar
10BobMarleys at 12/03/2008 20:29
I'm so hard right now. This game is gonna be madness.
Cube's Avatar
Cube at 12/03/2008 20:33
It looks exactly the same as the last pc game
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Professor Pew at 12/03/2008 20:39
I can't wait for this, I really hope it will do well enough in retail to make Hollywood think about a new movie too. Moar Riddick!
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GuitarAtomik at 12/03/2008 20:43
Looks extremely bad-ass. I never got around to playing the original version (and I secretly love the Riddick movies) so I'm going to enjoy this when it comes out.
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Rucksack at 12/03/2008 20:45
I can only hope to be able to kill someone with a cup.
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T9X at 12/03/2008 20:48
This is wonderful.I hadn't heard much about this remake in a while,I was hoping it it was still in development.Looks like there are still a few bright spots to look foward to next year.
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Jetsetlemming at 12/03/2008 23:15
I actually have to agree with Cube- graphically it doesn't look at all different from the original.
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AnimaLux at 12/03/2008 23:32
From the trailer, the game looks more polished than its predecessor (which was, by many accounts, graphically ahead of its time). I'm just hoping that the story is something spectacular, because the somewhat akward monologue in the clip leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.

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.
Trevor McGee's Avatar
Trevor McGee at 12/03/2008 23:35
Well, Cube and you don't have a good memory then because this looks much improved over the original.
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Qraze at 12/03/2008 23:45
can't wait
Trevor McGee's Avatar
Trevor McGee at 12/03/2008 23:48
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay - XBox


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.
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Cube at 12/03/2008 23:49
It is installed on my machine I clicked the Icon it looks the same like 4 minutes after I watched and ran though it some it looks almost 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.
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mourning orange at 12/04/2008 00:14
Escape from Butcher Bay was released two months prior to Doom3,so I suppose you could say Doom3 looks like an Escape from Butcher Bay clone...

Also the original was WAY better of a game than Doom3.
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Cube at 12/04/2008 00:39
I was playing half life 2 and ut2004 in 2004 so so I did not pay any mind to riddick or doom 3.


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.
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Jetsetlemming at 12/04/2008 01:07
@ Trevor McGee
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.
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Cube at 12/04/2008 01:50
Took em this long to add Depth of Field and maybe a little antialiasing that is way to long for such small improvements.

they should have just started over with the engine and if that is a new engine I am even more not impressed.
Trevor McGee's Avatar
Trevor McGee at 12/04/2008 03:28
Watch the HD trailer, it's more obvious, at least to me, that this is a pretty massive upgrade.
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Critical Damage at 12/04/2008 08:27
Do F'n Want, I loved the original. Even though it was based on a subpar movie.
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Distaph at 12/04/2008 10:43
I think we are all overlooking the real question here: do we still get to kill Xzibit?
Gorelord's Avatar
Gorelord at 12/04/2008 13:48
Vin Diesel could be replaced by cg and I could not tell the difference.
Infininja's Avatar
Infininja at 12/04/2008 23:40
The ads on videos are getting a little ridiculous...
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DADASLI at 01/27/2009 10:39
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