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I wish I could say how great this game is, but...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 33
Date: March 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

it won't even install :( After looking at the developer's web site, it seems this game is a POS that is more problems than its worth.

A so-so game, when I got it to work..

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: April 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game is designed to run on Windows XP machines with Svc Pack 1 ONLY. I was getting a big fat GPF when I tried to run the game on a non-Svc Pack 1 machine.

Now that I can play the game, it is merely OK. The graphics are very good but the gameplay contains alot of the Doom-style "find the key" type of missions. Those get really tedious after a while.

Thoroughly nasty piece of work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 36
Date: February 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love adventure and shooter type games but the gratuitous realistic violence and language in this software was truly unpleasant. I regretted buying it from the first time I played it and soon threw it in the trash.

Better than Halo or Doom 3

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The story driven game play and the top quality voice acting really put this game above the rest. This game might be out for 2 years already, but it still has some of the most impressive graphics I have ever seem. This game really make you feel like you are Riddick, a total bad a&#. I truly hope future FPS follow the same footsteps.

As for buy.com, 100% reliable like always. Thanks guys.

Awesome move license based game. You will feel like Riddick!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've finally got around to playing "The Chronicles of Riddick : Escape From Butcher Bay" from start to finish. The general expectations for games made from movie licenses is for them to be a rushed, dodgy experience but I must say that this game is really quite polished and damn fun to play.

The character of Riddick was so successful in the films due to him being such a dangerous and uncontrollable force and the game has managed to bring that character to life perfectly. While playing as Riddick, you really will feel like the ultimate tough guy. Snapping guards necks when they least expect it, turning their guns on them during a struggle and generally taking down anything that comes your way. It really helps that Vin Diesel does the voice for Riddick in the game as he has such a distinct, gravely way of speaking. The likeness of the character in the game is also spot-on, so in other words, they've absolutely nailed the Riddick character in every way.

The whole game is based around escaping from the Butcher Bay prison system (as if the title didn't give that away). It involves working your way to the top of the system by taking out key cell mates and finding ways of moving between locations such as the mines and security centres. Most of the time, you have choices as to how any of these objectives are to be achieved. You can fight your way from location to location, taking down guards through pure force. Or you can take a more stealthy approach, taking out lighting systems and using your Riddick night vision to sneak up and take the guards out silently. There are actually plenty of times during the game where you have basically no weapons, so it's quite important to learn both aspects of the game.

The graphics are fantastic. They have a really gritty feel to them that suits the setting perfectly and the characters themselves look pretty good. The lighting and shadows are what make the game though. With the player trying hide in the shadows and the enemies having torches on their guns, things become really interesting and it looks extremely realistic in that department. There is quite a bit of fracturing in the textures where they overlap, but that's a minor qualm and doesn't effect game play.

The game isn't very long and it also isn't very hard. I finished it in just a few hours and only found one section to be quite hard which was halfway through the game. The rest is pretty easy but totally entertaining. There is some replay value to the game as there are packs of smokes to find that open up special features and bits of information. I must admit that I had no interest in these options, so the whole collecting thing was fairly redundant for me, but others may find it interesting and challenging. I guess the best reason to replay the game would be to try to get through sections using stealth rather than force or vice versa.

"The Chronicles of Riddick : Escape From Butcher Bay" is a great game that is a lot of fun to play. It's not on par with games such as Half Life 2, but considering how bad movie license based games normally are, this one is exceptional. You can pick it up really cheap these days too.

great game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game is great and has awsome graphics. you will play this game for hours.

Unique direction

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Try this if you are tired of generic shooters. This does get a bit tiring in it's repetetive last act, but overall the gameplay and even repetition itself are of a different nature then all other shooting games, substituting the easy way out most fps developer's take being non stop quick kills of indulgement, for an actual atmospheric, grime soaked suspense game..

Badass Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

my god. i love fps, but this is way up there with the best. runs beautifully smooth and i don't have the highest performance system (close, but not best).
GREAT
-Voice Acting
-Textures! (Must've have taken forever... looks fantanstic)
-Animation (Characters and Cutscenes)
-FUN. You just don't get to have this much fun in a FPS on a normal basis. Tons of side missions, different paths, and levels to explore... it's almost too much.

Only complaint is that it leaves the gamer wanting more.

The best new FPS out there

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Superb graphics, exciting game play, great controls, fantastic story, sharp AI, and enthralling action make this game a must own! And it even plays smoothly on my old 2GHz Pentium (with the graphics turned down a bit). And the price is now a steal!

Beautiful, fantastic, and great. But too short......!!riddick

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game has to rank as one of the coolest FPS games out there. Its not perfect by any stretch, and its certainly no HL2 or FEAR. But it is truly beautiful, with awesome artwork, decent weapons and good action. The cutscenes are masterful, Vin Diesel is better in this than in some of his movies :).

Really good voice acting in fact, not just Vin but lots of others too that you know. The scenery is amazing, the riddles to figure out are somewhat intruiging. I did find that I would get somewhat exhausted from getting lost, until the second time through where it became more intuitive. It is definitely somewhat of a maze for sure, and to some extent, its hard to figure out what to do the first time through, until you started to understand what the designers had in mind when they drew this thing out.

Starbreeze, the studio that build this is clearly very talented. There's an elegant complexity to what they've constructed here. Great art, wonderful concepts, neat images, and a good overall story. It is wierd in that it is a clausterphobic game like Doom 3, lots of darkness, small corridors, ventilation shafts (a staple of video games anyway).

There are some chapters that are better than others, like any game or book for that matter, but overall, a very satisfying game for sure. The only thing that makes it a real bummer is that it is quite short. Just when its getting interesting, it ends.

There are rumors of a sequel, but it might take some time, or may never happen at all, as this one was not that commercially successful apparently, which is too bad. But nonetheless, the Starbreeze guys will hopefully bring us more great things in the future.

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