I hated Vin Diesel, but this series always looked interesting to me...I finally grabbed Escape from Butcher Bay for Xbox, because it was only $5 and I had remembered it looked kind of interesting, despite Diesel...so I grabbed it and was very impressed...lots of great voice acting, gritty atmosphere. I beat that one about two months ago and just tonight grabbed this one for $5 now too and looks like it'll be just as good as the first, only better graphics on PS3 of course. Very underrated series in my opinion, but I can see how it would not be for every one.
As much fun as this game was to play through it was hard as studs even on Normal but I loved the challenge and the whole Bioshock-styled level design in Dark Athena. I don't really know why but there is something magical about backtracking in a game.
Just finished this after picking it up in the steam sale and I was very impressed. The ending was low key and some frustrating boss fights at the end but otherwise, playing the two games all the way through, I was very impressed. Level design reminded me of Deus Ex and I liked the sneak mechanics. AI wasn't perfect but certainly a notch above most: it was capable of mistaking where you were when you snuck round things and heading you off at the pass when it guessed correctly. Good acting too.
I bought this game two weeks ago because my friend reccomended it and I hadn't touched until today. I COMPLETELY REGRET doing so, this game is amazing!
Ya i think this game should be the bar on how your $60.00 is spent and what you get for your money. I have played through both Butcher bay and Dark Athena multiple times and it never gets boring =) Good review and glad you liked it =)
Butcher Bay is also a very underestimated game, i wasn't surprised when you said that THIS game was greater than you expected. i think the reason is the lack of advertisement by the game company, you don't really get any expectations if you never kind of heard of the game before. thanks for reviewing this game! to bad it's not for pc, yet. gotta say i like fps with key and mouse a tiny bit better.
Playing the first part of this game Escape from butcher bay, which I have reviewed on my channel, definitely in my mind one of the best movie licensed games out there, and replaying it reminds me of how good it was, and this one looks much improved. Can't wait to play this one.
George Kochikonas First game was amazing. It is much better than Dark Athena. This is a total console game, very easy and straightforward, lots of cutscenes, far less choice than Butcher Bay... It is worth playing now because it is so cheap. I still find myself replaying Butcher Bay though, and I mean the original, not the "next-gen" rework.
If Butcher Bay was a brand newly released game... It would still be one of the best, most original modern games. And it really is. The atmosphere is fantastic... And considering the original xbox game had ( not lying ) better textures and filters than doom 3, and released before it, made far quicker. It really was a masterpiece!!!
one reason i think this game turned out so well was because one vin diesel actually helped make the game and he loves riddick he has even said riddick is his favourite character he has ever played he wanted riddick to have good video games he actually really likes video games and the company that made it are pretty decent devs their not the best but they have made some good games it was made by people who love games and wanted to give riddick the video game adaptation he deserved
@MrDahlas did you kill him? if not take cover in the tunnel, pop out shoot, then run around to the other end, pop out and shoot, when he falls over you have to run up to him to kill him
I bought this a couple weeks ago, it was on sale for $40 at newegg. I haven't played much because of finals and the end of the semester, so I only played about an hour or two. So far, it seems like they broke the melee combat. The melee was really fast, and you can combo left and right punches in the first version of the game, now it's more about animated kills and it's a lot harder. Butcher Bay is one of my favorite fps games, so it ticks me off that they messed up one of the best aspects.
@BrainSeepsOut Modern Warfare is not crap! It has great gunplay and some amzing action sequences, not to mention great multiplayer with tons of unlockable ranks!
@EGIL94 those drones seem very familiar to borgs in elite force 1 and 2. nah, the borgs in elite force adapted to your weapons which was cool bc you would have to switch to alt fire, or change weapons. it made you use like every weapon in your inventory.
it also depends on what the developer decides to make first. Eg. most multiplatform games are made on 360 first then coded for ps3 afterwards that is why a lot of people think that 360 has better graphics because the games are technically optimized for 360's gpu. So its like an exclusive.
I'm sure you've figured it out by now, but there's a remastered version with both this and Escape from Butcher Bay (the 1st title in the game series) on one disc for PC. If you haven't purchased the disc yet though, gog.com is offering a 60% sale on the download of both titles in one. The best part is that gog titles are always DRM free so you don't have to deal with publishers intruding on your consumer rights. So long as you're not making copies and reselling them, you should be good with law.
@BrainSeepsOut Modern Warfare is not crap! It has great guns, some amazing action sequences, and great multiplayer with tons of unlockable ranks. I havn't played this game yet but have you ever even played modern warfare 2?
@BrainSeepsOut speak for yourself, i own it for PC. combat was really hard when your not in stealth but the feeling of stalking people in the dark never gets old.
@DustMan2704 Butcher bay and Dark athena are two seperate FULL games, on PS3 Blu-Ray format it's 1 disc, I dunno about Xbox or PC... Butcher Bay was released in 2004 for Xbox original and Pc and PS2, it's been re-mastered and thrown in to this bundle, Dark Atena was released in 2008 or '09, not sure, EFBB was way ahead of it's time, AoDA, maybe not.
I'm assuming you've played The Darkness? Now I like the Riddick games, but The Darkness blows them out of the water in my opinion. I agree, Starbreeze rocks.
Yeah xbox butcher bay was one title I was posting to xbox live as a game they should make a compatibilty patch for 360. I'm not quite sure what Mark is saying but it sounds like they've bundled butcher bay with the new title dark athena? Not sure if that's true.
I noticed such an option on Call Of Duty: World At War. .. But it only turned off the ironsights thing. (Call Of Duty on ze consoles have this thing when you press the ironsights button... the aim instantly flies to the nearest enemy, quite annoying.) It still kept the auto-aim that causes the crosshair to automatically follow the enemy you're aiming at. And no, I have not noticed such auto-aim on FPS games and similar on the PC.
i liked the demo and i've heard good things about this game. i think i might buy this disk. I've also heard that the other game on it, escape from butcher bay for the first xbox is worth the price just for that. and after watching this review i think i need to find a way to play this game
guys whats TAGES cause on steam it says "After activating the third time your product using TAGES a 30-day timer starts. After 30 days you will get that activation back up to 3 total activations." so does that mean i get it for 90 days or what?
Aaahhh... They should have done the effect of the rims of the goggles ascending out of shot every time it goes to his night vision (he is taking them off for that, after all). Such a shame.
Scary enough you don't expect that, I only played the xbox 1 butcher bay and you'd think it'd be some lame game but it turns out it's amazing. No game has that feel of punching someone like this game does. It manages to switch between gun, stealth, etc very well.
@mountdrian GLboy1 is technically correct theres 3 riddik movies... pitch black,chronicles of riddik and chronicles of riddik Dark Fury its just Dark Fury is a cartoon movie and i dnt think its been on theaters but its still a movie
I love this reviewer
I hated Vin Diesel, but this series always looked interesting to me...I finally grabbed Escape from Butcher Bay for Xbox, because it was only $5 and I had remembered it looked kind of interesting, despite Diesel...so I grabbed it and was very impressed...lots of great voice acting, gritty atmosphere. I beat that one about two months ago and just tonight grabbed this one for $5 now too and looks like it'll be just as good as the first, only better graphics on PS3 of course. Very underrated series in my opinion, but I can see how it would not be for every one.
You are one of the coolest reviewers i know
I'm still finishing up this game! whew! It is very good. voices, animation. It is rated M and it deserves that title!
This game is delivering one of the most amazing experience you can get from any video game.... it´s just epic
Right on this looks pretty good. I will for sure have to check it out. Awesome video!
wow I love time splitters too :)
second one was best!
As much fun as this game was to play through it was hard as studs even on Normal but I loved the challenge and the whole Bioshock-styled level design in Dark Athena. I don't really know why but there is something magical about backtracking in a game.
This is the game that pwned all games im waiting for the next one i hope they release it around the same time the new riddick movie comes out
Yuup.. that never happened😢
Awesome review. Cortez is exactly who I was thinking of when I saw Riddick.
haven't played this one but the original version of this was friggin awesome, an exeption to the movie based game rule. bravo
I bought the first one did not know there was a second one now I just bought it thanks classic game room
got mine for 3 at goodwill. thats what you call a good deal.
Butcher bay was amazing for Xbox1, it's awesome that they not only redid it but they included it with another game. I gotta save up for this one.
I'm playing the HD remaster of Escape from Butcher Bay now. Can't wait to play this.
Just finished this after picking it up in the steam sale and I was very impressed. The ending was low key and some frustrating boss fights at the end but otherwise, playing the two games all the way through, I was very impressed. Level design reminded me of Deus Ex and I liked the sneak mechanics. AI wasn't perfect but certainly a notch above most: it was capable of mistaking where you were when you snuck round things and heading you off at the pass when it guessed correctly. Good acting too.
I bought this game two weeks ago because my friend reccomended it and I hadn't touched until today. I COMPLETELY REGRET doing so, this game is amazing!
Ya i think this game should be the bar on how your $60.00 is spent and what you get for your money. I have played through both Butcher bay and Dark Athena multiple times and it never gets boring =) Good review and glad you liked it =)
Butcher Bay is also a very underestimated game, i wasn't surprised when you said that THIS game was greater than you expected.
i think the reason is the lack of advertisement by the game company, you don't really get any expectations if you never kind of heard of the game before.
thanks for reviewing this game! to bad it's not for pc, yet.
gotta say i like fps with key and mouse a tiny bit better.
Man, I miss this show.
Playing the first part of this game Escape from butcher bay, which I have reviewed on my channel, definitely in my mind one of the best movie licensed games out there, and replaying it reminds me of how good it was, and this one looks much improved. Can't wait to play this one.
the nanomed health unit in this game looks so brutal. and riddick takes it like a man
Graphics are really realistic . and the soundtrack is so awesome
Escape from Butcher Bay was awesome! :) Gotta get this one next. :P
I really want this game. Looks amazing to me, like it's right up there with mw2 or halo.
it seems like a good game.like the first i have and it was awesome for those times...
George Kochikonas First game was amazing. It is much better than Dark Athena. This is a total console game, very easy and straightforward, lots of cutscenes, far less choice than Butcher Bay... It is worth playing now because it is so cheap. I still find myself replaying Butcher Bay though, and I mean the original, not the "next-gen" rework.
how come i never heard of this game? .. i played the xbox one and loved it.. ill be getting this too for my pc :)
nice ... it rocks! very good game, cool style : )
look kinda young for this genre, i had my son who is 9 played butcher bay he loved it.
i am a huge fan of timesplitters and cant wait for the next one so yes they are the same XD
i LOVE this guy...he's awesome!
i just beat this game last night. great game!
i love your job
I think I'll get this when my PS3 arrives in a few days. How much is it going for now?
i like ur videos
If Butcher Bay was a brand newly released game... It would still be one of the best, most original modern games. And it really is. The atmosphere is fantastic... And considering the original xbox game had ( not lying ) better textures and filters than doom 3, and released before it, made far quicker. It really was a masterpiece!!!
I'm downloading this game now with Escape from Butcher Bay on it too :)
one reason i think this game turned out so well was because one vin diesel actually helped make the game and he loves riddick he has even said riddick is his favourite character he has ever played he wanted riddick to have good video games he actually really likes video games and the company that made it are pretty decent devs their not the best but they have made some good games it was made by people who love games and wanted to give riddick the video game adaptation he deserved
should i get this one? i love Fps, but i also liike stealth. is this game good for me?
@Chaos13666 I agree I LOVED Chronicles of Riddick the movie. I wish I'd seen it in the cinema.
@Djarcon Yes. Check out the steam store.
Every time Vin Diesel talks it like an earthquake in my living room
@MrDahlas did you kill him? if not take cover in the tunnel, pop out shoot, then run around to the other end, pop out and shoot, when he falls over you have to run up to him to kill him
I bought this a couple weeks ago, it was on sale for $40 at newegg. I haven't played much because of finals and the end of the semester, so I only played about an hour or two. So far, it seems like they broke the melee combat. The melee was really fast, and you can combo left and right punches in the first version of the game, now it's more about animated kills and it's a lot harder. Butcher Bay is one of my favorite fps games, so it ticks me off that they messed up one of the best aspects.
It's funny how the game is a hundredfold better than the films. This includes the plot and everything!
I always thought Riddick was Cortez From Timesplitters aswell
@BrainSeepsOut Modern Warfare is not crap! It has great gunplay and some amzing action sequences, not to mention great multiplayer with tons of unlockable ranks!
@EGIL94 those drones seem very familiar to borgs in elite force 1 and 2. nah, the borgs in elite force adapted to your weapons which was cool bc you would have to switch to alt fire, or change weapons. it made you use like every weapon in your inventory.
it also depends on what the developer decides to make first. Eg. most multiplatform games are made on 360 first then coded for ps3 afterwards that is why a lot of people think that 360 has better graphics because the games are technically optimized for 360's gpu. So its like an exclusive.
I can't find part 2! Did it get taken down?
is there any other good stealth game for pc worth trying. Better if its from 2007-2012 i ahve play most of the old ones.
I'm sure you've figured it out by now, but there's a remastered version with both this and Escape from Butcher Bay (the 1st title in the game series) on one disc for PC. If you haven't purchased the disc yet though, gog.com is offering a 60% sale on the download of both titles in one. The best part is that gog titles are always DRM free so you don't have to deal with publishers intruding on your consumer rights. So long as you're not making copies and reselling them, you should be good with law.
awesome game ,i have it in my ps3 collection .... and will never part with it ..... i would love to see a ps4 reboot
@BrainSeepsOut Modern Warfare is not crap! It has great guns, some amazing action sequences, and great multiplayer with tons of unlockable ranks. I havn't played this game yet but have you ever even played modern warfare 2?
Go for the sweet spot!.
@CervantesXV No it was not, it was simultaneously released on all platforms.
@BrainSeepsOut speak for yourself, i own it for PC. combat was really hard when your not in stealth but the feeling of stalking people in the dark never gets old.
@DustMan2704 Butcher bay and Dark athena are two seperate FULL games, on PS3 Blu-Ray format it's 1 disc, I dunno about Xbox or PC... Butcher Bay was released in 2004 for Xbox original and Pc and PS2, it's been re-mastered and thrown in to this bundle, Dark Atena was released in 2008 or '09, not sure, EFBB was way ahead of it's time, AoDA, maybe not.
First line of this review cracked me up
Yeah, Butcher Bay comes with the game. Athena is supposed to be alright, but Butcher Bay was incredible.
got a fast & furious ad :P
I'm assuming you've played The Darkness? Now I like the Riddick games, but The Darkness blows them out of the water in my opinion. I agree, Starbreeze rocks.
Are assault on dark athena and escape from butcher bay on PC?
@1985woooman lol, theres a second pitch black!??!
i bought it: this game will be collecters item in the future , buy it while you can!!!
nice game
Is it a buy or rent ?
What do u guys think ?
Yeah xbox butcher bay was one title I
was posting to xbox live as a game they
should make a compatibilty patch for
360. I'm not quite sure what Mark is
saying but it sounds like they've bundled
butcher bay with the new title dark athena? Not sure if that's true.
I noticed such an option on Call Of Duty: World At War.
.. But it only turned off the ironsights thing.
(Call Of Duty on ze consoles have this thing when you press the ironsights button... the aim instantly flies to the nearest enemy, quite annoying.)
It still kept the auto-aim that causes the crosshair to automatically follow the enemy you're aiming at.
And no, I have not noticed such auto-aim on FPS games and similar on the PC.
@TheXshadowzz its on steam
the game is cool? graphics? boring or not? should i buy it on ps3?
i liked the demo and i've heard good things about this game. i think i might buy this disk. I've also heard that the other game on it, escape from butcher bay for the first xbox is worth the price just for that. and after watching this review i think i need to find a way to play this game
@PuReGaMeR425 xbox 360 or ps3?
get it man, this game is good, and it got a 9 on game informer.
Yeah it's pretty difficult. It's no cake walk like most games these day's but it is extremely fun and I would assume affordable now and days.
guys whats TAGES cause on steam it says "After activating the third time your product using TAGES a 30-day timer starts. After 30 days you will get that activation back up to 3 total activations." so does that mean i get it for 90 days or what?
sick man! cutting people's head off, killing them with out them even knowing, shooting shit, blowing shit up, sounds like my kinda game lol
i got it for 10 and so far loving it so yeah good deal there
good game
@randomness2282 not really. i bought the game on steam in march this year and I still play the game.
They each are better in different ways.
Available on PC to :)
He was, and people might've not understood what I meant. I liked him, and I liked playing as him in co-op, but it got irritating after a bit.
Well now that I've actually played the game, I somewhat agree more with IGN's review. Butcher Bay was great, but Dark Athena was just... ok.
I have never played a game which featured angelina jolie. which game is she in?
Aaahhh... They should have done the effect of the rims of the goggles ascending out of shot every time it goes to his night vision (he is taking them off for that, after all).
Such a shame.
Scary enough you don't expect that, I only played the xbox 1 butcher bay and you'd think it'd be some lame game but it turns out it's amazing.
No game has that feel of punching someone like this game does.
It manages to switch between gun, stealth, etc very well.
hokey was a word that vin diesel used on the feature commentary of Pitch Black lol
It's the chronic...what?...cles of narnia.
@Antdoggy25 oh yeah stick about 5 shots on him before detonating them, usually does it
The company who did butcher bay and dark athena is vin diesels video game company. he really likes video games.
i had the escape from butcher bay game for the original xbox but this one looks better plus a remastered butcher bay heck yeah im gonna buy this soon
@mountdrian GLboy1 is technically correct
theres 3 riddik movies... pitch black,chronicles of riddik and chronicles of riddik Dark Fury
its just Dark Fury is a cartoon movie and i dnt think its been on theaters but its still a movie
lol at the cortez reference.
Riddick is such a fucking badass, he is like a Bald Chuck Norris !
Is this game on PC aswell?
your saying that angelina can speak german and did laras voice in german?
Just got it for 7 bucks so good deal?
Graphics are really realistic .
how ever how well made with story line, gameplay, and graphic; it's boring to see the most of the game are room with metal walls