The Chronicles of Ridd ick: Assault on Dark Athena (360/PS3)

[Flawless]

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Trailer

http://gamersyde.com/stream_9604_en.html

[thaima1shu]

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I never played the first one, but always heard it was great. Sounds like it'll be fantastic to be able to play it in its recreated version on the 360. I'm very, very excited. Should be a very value packed game.

[Flawless]

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Riddick gets 'Pitch Black' multiplayer mode

Spilled in the latest issue of Official Xbox Magazine US, Riddick's new online modes include the obligatory 12-player deathmatch and capture the flag modes, as well as an interesting Butcher Bay Riot game that pitches three teams of four against each other.

Teams include guards, mercenaries and prisoners, each tasked with fighting their way to and activating a central power cell. Although each team apparently plays the same, the implementation of a Counter-Strike-style weapon purchase system sounds fun - and at least it's not Halo 3 with Vin Diesels.

As we mentioned though the most exciting mode revealed is Pitch Black, which puts combatants in a big dark arena and makes one of them a fast-moving, ultra blade-wielding Riddick - the others are just grunts with guns and flashlights. Good luck.

If the grunts can manage to spot and kill Riddick - who can see clearly in the dark, by the way - they can become Riddick in the next round. This is going to be **** scary, and you know it.

20 maps are planned for the final game, which is out early next year.

[Flawless]

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Release date is mentioned as spring 2009.

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[EnigmaNemesis]

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Fantastic game ... still have the original on the PC, which looked amazing.

But will definitely be picking this one up.

[ty5oke]

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20 maps for multiplayer sounds promising.

[Cyros]

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Really seems like this will be a hard to pass up game since I failed to play the first one.

[AlexBrady]

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Really seems like this will be a hard to pass up game since I failed to play the first one.

Don't miss out again.

[EnigmaNemesis]

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Don't miss out again.

I second that ... this game was fantastic.

[AlexBrady]

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I second that ... this game was fantastic.

It really did feel like you were in prison. It pulled you in like no game ever did (at least for me).

[EnigmaNemesis]

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It really did feel like you were in prison. It pulled you in like no game ever did (at least for me).

Same here, the atmosphere was second to none. They really nailed it.

[AlexBrady]

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[quote=EnigmaNemesis;2038969776]Same here, the

How about that opening scene? Just fantastic.

[EnigmaNemesis]

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It was so good, I went out and bought all the DVDs right after.

[Goffs]

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w00t its coming out for the PC

[Flawless]

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Eurogamer Hands-On

They were confident with reason. Graphically at least, Assault on Dark Athena is a standout; lacking the effects clout of a Dead Space, perhaps, but as moody and defined and muscular on this generation as the original Riddick was on the last. It's a world of faces and shadow, fluid animation and sudden bursts of violence, and despite its generic viewpoint and setting, it still somehow manages to look different to the competition. Starbreeze is obviously more at home on this generation than it was when it made The Darkness - and, perhaps, more at home with the subject matter too.

Riddick finds himself aboard Dark Athena, a mercenary ship that captures and strips smaller ships for profit. Starbreeze isn't talking plot details, but it goes without saying that the murderous catlike fugitive proceeds to take the pirate operation apart, doing a lot of sneaking, killing, punching, and chewing on terse lines of gravel-voiced and gritty dialogue. His motivations are the usual mixture of self-interest and reluctant philanthropy; a Newt-like girl-child stowed away on Dark Athena plays the foil to the killer's softer side (and serves up exposition and gameplay hints).

Starbreeze is sticking to the original's mixture of stealth, melee combat and gunplay. Butcher Bay's brilliant inversion of the usual stealth dynamics - making the player feel supernaturally powerful, rather than pained and cautious, when hidden - doesn't need any reinventing. The marginally clumsy fisticuffs do, however, and here we're promised a good coat of polish, with the addition of some deadly new fist weapons - we're shown a set of evil-looking bladed knuckle-dusters. Any mechanical changes and improvements are being retro-fitted to the remake of Butcher Bay, too.

The less linear, mission-hub structure of Butcher Bay's prison yard section will also return for at least some of the new campaign. (We're guessing the "Bazaar" level mentioned on the menu screen has something to do with this). The other location titles we see - Cargo Bay, Main Docks, Refinery - don't do much to suggest that Assault on Dark Athena will deviate from the uniformly grimy industrial sci-fi on display. But after Butcher Bay, we'd be fools to think Starbreeze wasn't capable of a sudden, dramatic, stylistic mood-swing or two.

Starbreeze says it's putting "a lot of effort" into a very fully-realised multiplayer game to go alongside the twin campaign, but it's not prepared to discuss specifics yet. That, frankly, is a second level of luxury; more new single-player Riddick, and better old single-player Riddick, is what the fans want, and it's what they're getting. With further movies in development hell and Starbreeze in its relative development heaven, the Swedes find themselves the sole custodians of this sci-fi cult for now. It's in safe hands.