by: Michael Ogunnubi

April 26, 2009

Escape from Butcher Bay for the original Xbox managed to break the mold of crappy movie games, bringing Vin Diesel’s famous Riddick character to the gaming world spotlight and slicing its way to the forefront as a sleeper hit to be dealt with. I for one actually missed out on Escape from Butcher Bay so I was very delighted to find out that Starbreeze completely remastered the original title and included it in all its current gen glory with Assault on Dark Athena. In times like this, you have to appreciate developers really packing in more bang for your buck and this game surely have it’s value. After spending some quality time with both campaigns, Assault on Dark Athena is a sequel worthy of the original in almost every way.

As I said above, Assault on Dark Athena packs in two campaigns. One being Escape from Butcher Bay and the all new Assault on Dark Athena. I’ll begin with the remake of Escape from Butcher Bay. As a huge fan of Starbreeze’s past project, The Darkness I felt immediately at home…in fact, I little too at home. Those who played The Darkness will notice immediately how much everything thing in this game basically resembles The Darkness from the loading screens, graphics, HUD, menu, multiplayer etc. I felt as if this title should’ve been called The Darkness: Riddick Edition instead. It’s very ridiculous like Starbreeze took everything from that game and replaced it with the Riddick story.