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Riddick Rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: January 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

While the movies that this game branches from are mediocre if good at best, the game comes out of nowhere with dazzling graphics and gameplay. There was little if any hype leading up to this title yet now it satnds alone as possibly the best first person shooter of 2004. Better even than say Doom 3 which while having decent graphics and gameplay falls slightly short to this newcomer from Starbreeze Studios, one look and touch of this game and your hooked and unlike Doom where you basically blow everything to "hell" (pun intended) you have to solve puzzles and use stealth all the while in Riddick. So if you don't have this game and are skeptical get it or play it and it will surprise you.

Doesn't recognize my OpenGL

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 22
Date: September 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This really chaps my hide. I make a point of only buying games where the demo works on my box (and I like it). The demo runs fine on my 2.6GHz pentium with GeFOrce Nvidia MX6200.

But the full program won't run. It says I need to have OpenGL 1.3 or better. Duh - I have drivers for OpenGL 2.0! Of course - I can't get my money back - company policy.

Grrrr.

Great game, horrible install

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've played this game for a few days now and can safely say that there are some great gameplay qualities within. I have a pretty decent machine so I can max everthing out and still get max framerates. However, this game is a few years old, so don't get your hopes TOO high. The skin textures are awesome, but the clothing textures look like skin, so it makes them look a little wierd. The voice overs are a little cheezy, but then again, so was the dialog in the movies.

However, the install process can kill the greatness of this game, and that's why I gave it 3 stars. Do yourself a favor before installing. Get a non-writable PC CD player cheap! This game uses SecuRom copy protection and it hates CD/DVD writers. Most likely, this game will crash on disc three after 15-20 min of installing. Turning DMA off and all of the other nonsense that Sierra and Vivendi tell you to do will most likely not work. Also, make sure your video card is at least GeForce6 series or better or the ATI equivalent. If your card doesn't support OpenGL 1.3 or later, you won't be playing.

Vin Diesel rocks!

Patch required to play

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you have an n-vidia you're going to need to download the patch to play. The game itself is awesome and if you like the Riddick saga, you need to get this this.

The Chronicles of Riddick

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game is fun and has a lot of different angles to it. A great first person shooter game.

Good things come from Sweden

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: February 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Butcher Bay is a first rate adventure/shooter. The game world's detail shows a fully realized world. The game play keeps itself pretty simple like the interface, but draws you into the excitement without interrupting the suspension of disbelief.

Though replayability is limited, the "director's commentary" is a novel (in video games- though I'm interested it Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault for it's similar feature) and welcome insight into many aspects of a video game's creation, covering executive decisions, technical accomplishments, reviewer and player reactions, influences, and much more.

The attention to detail in Butcher Bay elevates this game to a 5 star game. Here are some specifics that I enjoyed:
1) A realistic flashlight! For once, the flashlight isn't a round spot of white light kinda shining in front of you but leaving the periphery in darkness. BB's flashlight effect fades realistically into a cone of light, illuminating all around you and fading into the distance.

2) Shadows. The shadows are rendered based all each source of light and it's intensity. Seeing your shadow move as you do, grow on a wall, fade due to walking past a light, then recede as you continue down the hallway is remarkable.

3) No daft voice acting that makes you cringe. While the characters are certainly of the comic book persuasion, the voice acting through out the game is consistently of a very high quality. The variety of accents serves to add depth to the characters.

4) Understated music. The music is used appropriately without drawing attention to itself. No techno, no H4rd c0r3 Rock and Roll or heavy metal, or anything else to remind you that Riddick is one bad assssassin.

To be fair, there are a few features that I would have liked implemented in Butcher Bay. First, there should have been a mini-game that lets you take dead bodies and "butcher" them. Over time you could expand your clientele and even create new cuts of meat unlocking new, sharper knives. After all, this is "butcher" bay- let's not have false advertising. Second, to make up for the fact that there is not a single female in the story (unless some of those guards are hiding something) an "enlarged breast tissue" feature would have made some of the more difficult parts a little more relaxing. It would also have tied into "butcher mode" rather well. Finally, I'm all for cool looking riot gear, but why wasn't there an "underwear" mode? I would have enjoyed playing through the director's commentary mode more if all the characters were in their underwear.

In any other game I wouldn't even bring these finer points up, but I don't want to seem uncritical.

Will not run after install (OpenGL Error)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: February 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I wish I had read these reviews before buying it. It won't run. Complains about OpenGL. Luckily, I bought it on clearance for $8.

As reviewer on another site said, "this is a beta release in a box."

best FPS out there...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

doom 3 i thought was ok.
half-life 2 was incredible.
but this one is the best FPS out there. i can't believe how it got swept under the rug because of the other bigger names i guess. it's an outstanding game. and it's cheap. not for kids, with some language and obviously tons of violence, but for an adult FPS lover this is the game you have to have.

Very fun, but extremely violent

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: December 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

An extremely fun game, I played it through in one sitting. The system requirements are steep, but if your system can handle it the graphics are outstanding, as well as the art work. The story is also interesting (though a little frustrating at times).

I'm a fan of first-person shooters, and so are my children. I try to keep them away from the most violent games, but in general, most aren't too bad, despite the 'M' ratings. But I was a little shocked at the violence and language in "Escape From Butcher Bay", and think that it should have a stricter rating.

In summary, a fun and entertaining game, but beware the violence.

PC Gamer gave this 93%!?!?!!?!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 22
Date: February 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Man, was I duped into buying this. PC Gamer made it editor's choice, and gave it a rating that put in on par with Half Life and Doom. But it not ever close. The game looks good, but the gameplay is somewhat lame, and its very difficult to get through the levels without a walkthrough. You rarely get any weapons, and run around with a stun gun for a whole level.

This game could have been so much better, but they blew it and most likely relied on a payola scam to get people to say it was good.

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