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The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
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Both a remake and expansion to the critically-acclaimed Xbox and PC title The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Dark Athena features both the original campaign, an all-new campaign and new multiplayer modes.
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"Dark Athena joins more content to the brilliant, grim Escape From Butcher Bay, which for the most part has aged quite well."
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Five Stars for Butcher Bay, Four for Dark Athena [spoiler on 2nd half of Dark Athena]

Escape from Butcher Bay is one of my favorite games, especially so for the prison elements, atmosphere and combat. There are annoying bits, true (The Pit and the Mines come to mind), but it's a fantas… Read more

Worth a look

Assault on Dark Athena is a pretty good package, giving you the original Escape from Butcher Bay, as well as a new (relatively short) campaign. What I would say is that if you're a hardcore shooter fa… Read more

Dark Athena Will Please Fans Of The Films, But Not Many Else.

In a post Modern Warfare world of First Person Shooters, it is becoming incredibly hard for up and coming franchises to hold their own against the heavy weights. The latest offering from the Riddick f… Read more

The only parts of the Riddick universe you will want to explore

Title: Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena Release: April 7, 2009 Genre: FPS (first-person shooter) Developer: Starbreeze Publisher: Atari Platform: PS3 Rating: M (Mature) Product Link: http… Read more

Review: The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay was a part of that rare breed of movie games that didn't suck. Developer Starbreeze Studios created a first person experience that delivered a fully… Read more

Assault on Dark Athena

Assault on Dark Athena is a decent game. It's not a great game, it's certainly not its predecessor, but it's a decnet game. My favorite aspect of the game is the Pitch Black mulitplayer mode. You esse… Read more

You can stab people in the best ways in this game.

I jammed a shiv into a dude’s eye, wiggled it around to really, really dig it in there, and then pulled it back out before he was finally given solace, because man, I wanted him to feel all of that. T… Read more

In space Riddick will make you scream.

Another Riddick game, another chance to slice and dice as Vin Diesel himself. Seeing as there are many Butcher Bay reviews out there I'll jump right to the main attraction here which is the sequel(or… Read more

Awesome fun for countless hours!

The game offers a combination of stealth and action mixed together. Not much to offer in Dark Athena in the form of sidequests but this does not takeaway from the fun, exciting aspect of the game itse… Read more

Keeping up with the Diesels

Vin Diesel is in the midst of the safest comeback attempt I’ve seen in a long time, in that it appears that he’s revisiting every property he’s ever seen any success in. First he reprised his role in… Read more

Fighting's fun, the rest? Ehh...

Escape from Butcher Bay was a hell of a game-changer back in 2004. What with it's awesome fist-fights and Vin-Diesel groveling, there were barely any faults that it had. Not only was it a damn fine ga… Read more

One of the Best Games on 360

Riddick is back!!!! The improvements on Butcher Bay is very good and the dialogue is very good. this game has a kind of RPG element to it. Dark Athena is an excellent game to bundle with. The action a… Read more

Solid game

They really did a good job with the graphical adjustments from the first one. You can enjoy the amazing environment. I like butcher bay more for the RP element they have. The second one has some prett… Read more

Great Remake of an instant classic, and worthy sequel.

Riddick AoDA is a game that is sure to please even the most die hard fps fans. Like its predecessor, it contains all the elements of a great fps with added elements of RPG and 3rd person plat-forming… Read more

A.I. not perfect, but fun to mess around with.

This is going to be brief, mostly because I'm lazy. First things first, if you played Riddick on Xbox1 and enjoyed it and the related universe, go buy this game now. I can personally guarantee that yo… Read more

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