The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay

THE BAD:
I shouldn't really answer that, but i must say though, that the game does have alot of Bad language in it. Its not something you play around kids or Parents (if you still have one). But it tell you how vicious and bad this soldiers are.

SUMMARY:
I agree with theBroker completely about his views on this game. This game is movie licensed and for only God knows how long we have not seen a well made movie licensed game. There are very ugly looking games outhere except for Team Ninja's Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive 3. I have to say that starbreeze shocked me with the release of this game. There were no hypes about it and it still did better than most games outhere that are over hyped.

This is the best selling game for the xbox and it deserves a buy so you can show it off to your PS2 friends. This will show them that xbox beats the competition. I am hoping that EA, Atari...

THE BAD:
More of a stealthy game than a FPS (may be a good thing to some).

SUMMARY:
There was a day when everyone thought that xbox would rely on one game(Halo). But now, games like Brute Force, Sudeki and the featured game, The Chronicles of Riddick give Halo a real run for its money. This stealthy FPS puts you in the role of Richard.B Riddick(Vin Diesel), star of the famous hit, Pitch Black and the most anticipated movie of the year, The Chronicles of Riddick. This first class action game is darker than it possibly can get. The plot twists and turns, leaving the most experienced gamer stranded, as you fight your way out of a high security prison, with a shotgun, only to be kicked into double max where you have to work for a weapon, then triple max, where you are put to sleep for 1 day, then...

THE BAD:
Perhaps one too many climaxes and just a little too much sneaking around. Not much replay value.

SUMMARY:
Believe the hype this is a very well put together game.

You are Riddick a mass murdering bad boy, thrown in the worst slam in the universe Butchers Bay. Because you start as a con you have no weapons and the gurads have these assault rifles that are DNA coded, you kill the guard you still can't use the waepon, but that all changes later on...

This is a game that has thought of pretty much everything, you can grapple an armed man and get him to shoot his own brains out, you get Riddick's eye shine that lets you see in the dark, but when you have it activated, light virtually blind you, so beware those guards using torches.

The setting of a prison is a grim, gloomy and nasty place, and the textures are amazing. You can feel the...

THE BAD:
Some sloppy graphics, enemy AI isn't too hot, no multiplayer or XBox Live support, kinda short, kinda easy

SUMMARY:
Just beat it 5 minutes ago. I've had it for two days, played it some yesterday and then a lot more today. There were some parts that were almost impossible to beat, and some parts where I got totally lost and didn't know where to go, but on the whole it was pretty linear and fairly easy (then again, I was playing on the "Easy" difficulty). And some of the scripted sequences were really badass. Like, stuff you'd only see in movies. It was great.

I felt the controls were a little loose, especially leaning out from corners and aiming weapons, but otherwise the controls made a lot of sense. I give the game props for actually featuring the character's...

THE BAD:
Poor weapon control makes quick targeting difficult. So-so stealth sections. Not enough gun play.

SUMMARY:
Although Riddick is a pretty good effort in terms of graphics, originality and set pieces, its let down by pretty bad character movement and weapon control. The level design at times is uninspiring and i often found myself wandering around various corridors without an aim. Only after back tracking several times do some of the puzzles become obvious. This quickly made alot of the game tiresome for me, especially when the usual run of the mill stealth was required to proceed further. The game would have benefited greatly from alot less sneaking and alot more shooting. Its also a little to short. A definite weekend rental then, as thats about the most you will get out of it, nothing more. On the whole though, Riddick is a quality title.

THE BAD:
- No Multiplayer
- Gaps in Story

SUMMARY:
Lets face it people, video games based on movies suck. They are so terrible and made by the worst developers that it isn't even worth renting. In fact the only movie based game that was good enough to up hold the title of "rental" is Spider-Man. And that game isn't even all that good. But hold your pants because Escape from Butcher Bay has dethroned Spider-Man and is now king of movie-based games!

Gameplay: 4.5
You have 3 types of gameplay: Stealth, fighting, and shooting. Each one done very simple and very fun. The stealth is pretty cool and easy because you know how well hidden you are from how blue everything is. The fighting is simple, fun and challenging if sometimes. And the shooting, it's very awesome and the variety of weapons is...

THE BAD:
Not even worth mentioning

SUMMARY:
I have owned alot of consoles in my life and played alot of games. I still have fond memories of Atari 2600, Colecovision, Intellivision (this was my first system growing up), Turbo Grafix 16, Sega, Sega Saturn, Dreamcast. I have to admit that sometimes a game comes out and makes you want to buy the system. I remember seeing GTA III for the first time and I ran out and bought the PS2. When I first saw Metroid Prime I bought the Gamecube. When I first saw Halo I bought the Xbox. All of those games were difinitive reasons to buy their respected systems. I have since traded my PS2 and Gamecube in because I figured if I was going to have any system I might as well have the best.

For all of you Gamecube and PS2 owners who happen to read this review because you heard The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay was a great game, let...