Short Game Review: The Chronicles of Riddick
This disc has two games in one (a remake and a new game), both featuring everyone’s favorite convict with a heart of gold. Escape from Butcher Bay is okay, but not as good as some of you remember it being. Assault on Dark Athena is pretty much the same as Butcher Bay, but it’s in space instead of a prison, so the view through the windows is nicer. Fine games, but not a very good “Riddick simulator”: The melee combat is decent, but most scenes require shooting. If I’m playing as Vin Diesel in space, I think I should be able to wander into any room along the ceiling and kill everyone inside, one by one, with my bare hands, after creepily sniffing at them from the shadows. Is that too much to ask? Hopefully there are more opportunities for creepy sniffing in the multiplayer mode.
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The fact that I can’t “wander into any room along the ceiling and kill everyone inside, one by one, with my bare hands, after creepily sniffing at them from the shadows” is why I don’t play any games. Except Chuzzle. I do play that game. But it doesn’t involve you know bare handed ceilling killing or sniffing.
By Chris Collins on 08.02.09 11:40 pm
[...] got bored of playing the Chronicles of Riddick games, so I popped in The Darkness—the next story-oriented game I’d picked up on sale—not even [...]
By doombot » Short Game Review: The Darkness on 12.15.09 8:20 pm
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