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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 - Comment posted on 12/03/2008 20:24
Trevor McGee
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.
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2008 20:26
mix
"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 - Comment posted on 12/03/2008 20:29
Roryzilla
This game looks amazing.
10BobMarleys's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2008 20:29
10BobMarleys
I'm so hard right now. This game is gonna be madness.
Cube's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2008 20:33
Cube
It looks exactly the same as the last pc game
Professor Pew's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2008 20:39
Professor Pew
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!
GuitarAtomik's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2008 20:43
GuitarAtomik
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.
Rucksack's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2008 20:45
Rucksack
I can only hope to be able to kill someone with a cup.
T9X's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2008 20:48
T9X
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.
Jetsetlemming's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2008 23:15
Jetsetlemming
I actually have to agree with Cube- graphically it doesn't look at all different from the original.
AnimaLux's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2008 23:32
AnimaLux
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 - Comment posted on 12/03/2008 23:35
Trevor McGee
Well, Cube and you don't have a good memory then because this looks much improved over the original.
Qraze's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2008 23:45
Qraze
can't wait
Trevor McGee's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2008 23:48
Trevor McGee
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.
Cube's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/03/2008 23:49
Cube
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.
mourning orange's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 00:14
mourning orange
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.
Cube's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 00:39
Cube
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.
Jetsetlemming's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 01:07
Jetsetlemming
@ 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.
Cube's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 01:50
Cube
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 - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 03:28
Trevor McGee
Watch the HD trailer, it's more obvious, at least to me, that this is a pretty massive upgrade.
Critical Damage's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 08:27
Critical Damage
Do F'n Want, I loved the original. Even though it was based on a subpar movie.
Distaph's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 10:43
Distaph
I think we are all overlooking the real question here: do we still get to kill Xzibit?
Gorelord's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 13:48
Gorelord
Vin Diesel could be replaced by cg and I could not tell the difference.
Infininja's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 23:40
Infininja
The ads on videos are getting a little ridiculous...
DADASLI's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/27/2009 10:39
DADASLI
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