Riddick remake for PS3, 360
More content, multiplayer.
Starbreeze has confirmed its working on a next-gen makeover of The Chronicles of Riddick.
Assault on Dark Athena will be available on PS3 and Xbox 360 before the end of the year.
There will be additional single-player content to get stuck into - taking place on board the scavenger ship Dark Athena - and an online multiplayer mode will be included.
Commentary is also expected to feature in a similar way to the Developer's Cut remake on PC, as is the obvious graphical spit-shine to show off the new floating terrafloppy-tehcnotrons.
The Chronicles of Riddick appeared on Xbox, based on the 2004 film of the same name. It took everyone by surprise, not least because the big-screen version starring Vin Diesel was rubbish.
The first-person action [with third-person cutscenes, obviously! - Ed] game displayed some of the best graphics we'd seen, and earned itself a whopping 9/10. Catch up with our The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay review to see why.
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Eh? It was mostly FIRST-person actually with third-person cutscenes and intermissions. I mean, you guys did play it... right?
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Thanks for your sharp-eyes.
And, as if to ram home the fact that I have slow eyes - thanks to Jack Klugman as well.
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syntax error. not true! at least not the dir. cut
better than the game imo
(tried to like it, for a couple of hours, on pc. no luck)
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Can't believe how commercially under-rated it was. Hopefully this revamp will give it the market it deserves.
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But I'm not sure what to make of this.
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Sad sheep without there own thoughts or opinions
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"If the developers are adding 50% new content and a multiplayer mode, why didn't they just go the whole hog and make a brand new game?!?"
Because 50% new content doesn't equal 50% of the work.
EDIT: spelling
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Shallow dumb shit game, that's all that is yet it gets 8/10
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and more strangling people in the dark, please, Starbreeze.
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Seems a waste of effort to be honest.
Boooooooooo
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Being a completionist I would probably get it!
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It didn't sell anywhere near as well as it should have, so there is a still a big potential market for it comprised of people who have not played it before. Hardly a waste of effort.
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I though the H2H system wasn't bad, though it took some getting used to. It felt kind of random to start with but after a while you could despatch opponents pretty quickly with some nifty combos.
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i'd forgotten about / repressed the harrowing memories of the underground zombie goblins in the dark in a maze full of poison gas sequence, though -- that really was arse.
(what is it with FPSes and annoying zombie levels, anyway? HL2's Ravenholme, Halo's Library, Riddick, umm ... I'm sure there are plenty more.)
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I heard the zombie pit was the bit that Vin Diesel designed. Could just be PR bollox, but it would explain a lot of it were true
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That's progress.
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Surely if they were going to do a remake they should have just downscaled it and put it on the ps2. No point doing it on the 360 as most people have probably played it on pc or original xbox and the ps3 has a tiny userbase.
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wait... is this the reported "sequel" or something else?
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Are you a film critic? Aren't people entitled to thier opinion, especially after watching a film?
Or are you one of THOSE people that tell other they aren't allowed to state thier opinion on something unless they've been involved in it themselves?
Oh and yes, the second riddick film is pap IMO. Which is a shame as I loved pitch black, and I know a bit of the background story to the riddick character, and think he has/had potential to be a great iconic character like rambo or the terminator.
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Shallow dumb shit game, that's all that is yet it gets 8/10"
:-D
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What a load of old sh1t.
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So, you don't believe take-up on "The Orange Box" for 360/PS3 is going to be particularly high, when it's out towards the end of the year?
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That said, it is a tremendously replayable and bloody great game.
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Ta!
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Though I consider Riddick 'too fresh' for a remake, need to be more than just a generation apart and also the time passed need to be more than couple of years! Riddick was well done on Xbox so a remake would not be that far different on X360 but yes great for those who hasn't given it attention it deserved especially on PS3.
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Will probably wait until it's about £20 or less.
Great game, though. A 9/10 through and through.
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Oh, so that's going to contain a remake of HL2? News to me.
Riddick was well done on Xbox so a remake would not be that far different on X360
There we go. Idunno what to compare it to. It's like, hey guys spiderman 3 is out, lets re-film the spiderman 2 movie! Again, what's the point?
No, instead look at the Resident Evil remake and compare it to the original. That's something with merit.
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Make this innovative NOW!
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Har har. Oh look I can be clever: Mario Strikers is a remake of Mario64 lol! See what I did there?
It doesn't even work as sarcasm dude. What was the point? Try again.
Because of what I explained already, clearly enough for any tard to understand, that's why.
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Mario IS remade in god knows how many ways each year (Tennis/Football/2D Platform/3DPlatform/RPG/Party/Golf etc.) so WHY can't Riddick be remade?
Seems like a sensible game to remake IMHO: it was a unique, cult classic on a non-market leading platform that was ahead of it's time visually and it has stood the test of time. Why not bring it up to date and expose it to a wider audience?
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Hahaha oh man. So you were serious? I'm trying to say... something about it, like make some outrageous analogy, but I can't actually think of anything more silly than what you just said. Wow.
As for the Riddick thing, I'm baffled. How in gods name is it normal that you remake a game that practically just came out last week (as in, completely remake like they're apparently doing, not just a rerelease with some extra features)? Why would you remake Prey already? Or Halflife 2? Or Oblivion? Sure, they're free to do whatever the hell they want, not saying that, just saying it's very weird. And also that it's very weird that you think it's not.
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It was released three years ago.
"Hahaha oh man. So you were serious? I'm trying to say... something about it, like make some outrageous analogy, but I can't actually think of anything more silly than what you just said. Wow"
Ditto.
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Your point? Yeah, games get remade within that time all the time right? No, of course not. And with good reason: why would you spend all those resources when the game isn't even going to look much different? Look at some screens. What are you going to do with that, using current technology? Add more crates?
Ditto.
NO U
wow, someone is pissed of that there's a remake coming...
Nope, just "weirded out" as kids like to say these days, partially because of the people who gobble it up.
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You do seem rather vexed about all this old bean.
I, on the other hand, will be enjoying the delights of reworked versions of Riddick and Ninja Gaiden on my PS3. I'm sure that I, and the other people who never experienced their delights on the relatively unpopular Xbox, will have no trouble whatsoever in seeing the point in their appearance on our console of choice
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[/rolleyes] It was a hyperbole. The game is fairly new. Have you even looked at the screenshots I linked? You haven't answered. Just look at it. What are they going to do with those graphics to warrant calling it a remake?
Remember the Resident Evil remake? Now there was something that had a point.
As for your last comment, that changes nothing about the argument, does it. I've never even played the game myself, FYI.
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It might be nice if they let you play the new bits from the beginning if you've already completed the first game. Although exactly what they'd do about the Director's cut's robot suit bits remains to be seen.
For the record, I thought the second Chronicles of Riddick movie was gloriously camp and silly, in the same so-awful-it's-enjoyable vein as the Dungeons and Dragons movie. It did kind of ruin the vibe from Pitch Black, though, which was a shame.
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How is me highlighting the fact that Riddick will now be available to non Xbox owners (i.e. a MUCH wider audience) NOT an answer to your persistent "why is this being made" trite?
I suppose you think that every single Bluray and HDDVD movie is a waste of time and that you've never bought a DVD that you once owned on VHS? Is re-issuing classic Books or Comics is a waste of time too?
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