Seen a few vids of this and looks quite intresting. been on demo but found it quite difficult. Views on it please?

This game's already out in the UK

It came out yesterday and is unbelievably good. It looks unbelievably good, and it has everything, mêlée combat, stealth and RPG and FPS. This should be game of the year.

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It came out yesterday and is unbelievably good. It looks unbelievably good, and it has everything, mêlée combat, stealth and RPG and FPS. This should be game of the year.

It won't be just because it's a remake. Also, I heard the extra content doesn't even compare to the original content.

I bought this recently having never played the original Escape from Butcher Bay but always having intended doing so and I am mightily impressed. This is easily one of the best, if not THE best movie -> game tie-in I've ever played.

I haven't completed Dark Athena yet as I played through EFBB first.

If you like the Thief games then I'd say yea, definitely go for it. It's borrowed quite a lot from there (shooting lights out, moving bodies and so on). It's been extremely refreshing to play a first person shooter that places stealth gameplay over run and gun.

The voice acting is superb, not just from Vin Diesel but the rest of the cast is spot on too. The graphics are really nice. It's atmospheric (you can hear Riddick's heart pumping when an enemy is looking for you for example), the game has some really nice hand to hand combat and is filled with gore

There was a couple of levels where the standard slipped and entered generic FPS mode but for a 10-12 hour experience, it was top notch for the most part.

Both this game and the video of Vin Diesel body popping when he was younger on youtube have earned him much kudos in my book!

Just completed Dark Athena today having finished Buthcer Bay a couple of weeks back and what can I say? This game is worth every penny, no doubt!

All the different aspects of this game are brilliantly combined! Preferring stealth myself I didn't go wrong with this one. The FPS style is awesome, the dark sci-fi feel is most definitely present thanks to the RPG elements both games utilize.
You really find yourself engulfed in the madness surrounding you on board The Dark Athena where Zombiefied used-to-be humans are patrolling the decks of the ship - The atmosphere of being incarcerated and seconds later on the run in one of the galaxy's, by far, most dreaded prisons is just as lively! Both games would be worth the retail price, and you get both!