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The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
Developer(s)Starbreeze Studios
Publisher(s)Atari
Producer(s)Samuel Ranta-Eskola
Designer(s)Jerk Gustafsson
Programmer(s)Magnus Högdahl
Artist(s)Mattias Snygg
Writer(s)
  • Tommy Tordsson
  • Mikael Säker
  • John Zuur Platten
Composer(s)Gustaf Grefberg
SeriesThe Chronicles of Riddick
Platform(s)
ReleaseWindows, PS3, X360
  • NA: April 7, 2009
  • EU: April 27, 2009
Mac OS X
Genre(s)Action-adventure, stealth
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

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The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is a science fictionfirst-person action video game for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360[1] and Mac OS X.[2] The game is a sequel to The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, which was remade and included along with the Assault on Dark Athena campaign.[3] The game was released on April 7, 2009.[4] A demo was released on Xbox Live on March 4, 2009, with a PlayStation Network release following on March 12, 2009.[5] Virtual Programming released the Mac OS X version on April 16, 2010 as a download through Deliver2Mac.com and other digital distribution web sites.[6]

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The game was developed by Starbreeze Studios and published by Atari. According to Ian Stevens, Head of Production at Tigon Studios, the decision to do a remake was because Microsoft could not make the Xbox 360 backward compatible with Escape from Butcher Bay, and because they wanted to get the Escape story to a larger audience before progressing further.[7]

Dark Athena has improved graphics and artificial intelligence (AI) from Butcher BayThe library overseer mac os. along with the addition of a multiplayer mode. The single player mode has also been expanded to include Riddick escaping onto a mercenary ship called Dark Athena. Vin Diesel, the voice and likeness of the title character, was involved in the production of Assault on Dark Athena.

Plot[edit]

The game picks up where Escape from Butcher Bay left off. Richard B. Riddick is a dangerous space criminal who can see in the dark. Johns, the man who originally took Riddick to the Butcher Bay prison for a bounty, helped him escape to avoid becoming a prisoner himself. On their ship together in a cryogenic sleep, they are dragged unwillingly into the Dark Athena, a gigantic mercenary vessel run by Gale Revas (voiced by Michelle Forbes) and her second in command, Spinner. Riddick avoids capture as Revas and her men take Johns away. Using the same stealth tactics as he did in Butcher Bay, Riddick sneaks and hides throughout the ship seeking to escape, killing the guards and mercenaries he encounters along the way. Many of the guards are automated drones that are human bodies with implanted machine parts, controlled remotely from within the ship.

He meets with a little girl named Lynn who is hiding from the guards in the air vent systems. Riddick makes his way to the prison cells and finds several people captured, including the former Captain of the Dark Athena before Revas took control. There he meets Lynn's mother, Ellen Silverman. She offers to make Riddick the tools he needs to escape through the air vents if he can get the right parts. She also asks to find Lynn because she is concerned for her safety. Another prisoner named Dacher (voiced by Lance Henriksen) offers his technical skills to help Riddick escape on a ship and unlock doors for him if Riddick can find him a com link. He agrees and finds the com link for Dacher and the parts for Silverman. Having again met with Lynn, Silverman keeps her word and makes him the tool he needs. Riddick moves on and is in contact with Dacher via video communication at computer terminals on the ship. Riddick frees the prisoners but most are killed, including Lynn's mother Silverman. Revas kills Dacher as he prepares the ship for their escape. Riddick finally meets Revas face to face. As they fight, he wounds her severely and she is thought to be dead. As he is preparing an escape pod to take off, Lynn is pounding on the door begging to take her with him. Revas, who is still alive as Riddick's pod takes off, fires a missile that hits the pod, causing it to crash on the planet Aguerra Prime below.

Riddick wakes up on the shore of a beach and he makes his way into an abandoned city. The planet is under siege from Revas' troops who are capturing civilians and harvesting their bodies to use for their drones. Riddick realizes his only way off the planet is to get back on the Dark Athena again. He makes his way through the city and back to the port where the Athena is docked. Spinner attacks Riddick in a robotic mech suit but is defeated. He gets back onto the Dark Athena and meets Lynn again. She tells Riddick her mother taught her how to make the drones turn on Revas' crew and attack them instead. Super qub (play test demo) mac os. Fighting ensues on the ship between the drones and the mercenaries. He makes his way up the ship and Riddick meets with Revas again, who is in a suit of armor with heavy weapons. He defeats her by pushing her into an elevator shaft and she falls to her death. Lynn meets up with him and they are seen going into the elevator. She asks him if Revas is coming back, and Riddick answers 'When I say goodbye, it's forever.' Then the credits roll.

Development[edit]

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena was originally announced on May 22, 2007 as a remake of Escape from Butcher Bay with Assault on Dark Athena serving as a 'bonus chapter'.[8] On July 10, 2008, The merger between Vivendi Games, the game's publisher and Activision had been complete and on July 29, 2008, the newly formed Activision Blizzard had announced that The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena along with eight other Vivendi Games titles that were in development had been dropped, putting the future of the game into question.[9] However, on September 24, 2008, StarBreeze Studios confirmed that The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena was nearing completion and were in the process of looking for a publisher to publish the game.[10] In October 2008 Infogrames, the parent company of Atari, announced they had picked up the publishing rights to Riddick and Ghostbusters: The Video Game.[11] While the fate of Riddick was up in the air, Starbreeze reportedly kept working,[12] and generated enough content by December 2008 to make Dark Athena, for all intents and purposes, a sequel to their earlier work.[3]

Release[edit]

On release, the PC version used the Tagèscopy protection system. After activating the game for a third time, Tagès would start a 30-day timer. After 30 days, it enabled another activation, back up to 3 total activations.[13] The version available on GOG.com came without this copy protection.[14] The GOG version of the game was removed in March 2017.[15]

Reception[edit]

Review scores
PublicationScore
1Up.comB-
Edge8/10[16]
Game Informer9.5/10 (Game of the Month, May 2009)
GamePro[17] (360/PS3)
GameTrailers8.4[18]
IGN7.4/10
OXM (US)9.0/10
TeamXbox8.8/10

The game received positive reviews, citing voice acting and the use of shadows as its strongest point. GameSpot praised the game for its voice acting and stated that 'You may not hear better voice acting all year: It's that good.' However, the game lost favour in AI and multiplayer.[19]1UP.com criticized the game for having very poor AI, citing that the player can be spotted even if he is not directly seen by the guards. Simply firing or exposing yourself will attract the enemy, regardless of whether they can see you or not. 1UP also pointed out that enemy AI will move away from the player's fire even if the attack is from behind.[20]

Despite the criticism of the multiplayer, Gaming-Age praised the game's 'Pitch Black' mode, citing that 'Pitch Black, though, is easily the best aspect about the multiplayer.' [21]Game Informer said the game was better than Escape from Butcher Bay, the first game. They also praised the voice acting, stating that 'Diesel's gravelly voice will rattle your living room when gunfire and explosions calm down.' Hyper's Daniel Wilks commends the game as 'an effortless combination of stealth and action' but criticises it for the 'HD facelift' and 'the lip synching is terrible'.[22]

See also[edit]

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References[edit]

  1. ^'Game Platform Information'. Starbreeze Studios. Archived from the original on 2012-03-25. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
  2. ^Cruse, Cord (16 April 2010). 'The Chronicles Of Riddick Coming To Macs Today'. Inside Mac Games. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  3. ^ abHollister, Sean (December 2, 2008). 'Riddick: Dark Athena is Remake No More'. GameCyte. Archived from the original on March 25, 2012. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
  4. ^'Atari dates Riddick'. Eurogamer. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
  5. ^'Riddick demo on Xbox Live'. Eurogamer. 2009-03-04. Retrieved 2009-03-04.
  6. ^Games (2010-04-16). 'The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena Hits Deliver2Mac Games'. The Mac Observer. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
  7. ^Dunham, Jeremy (May 25, 2007). 'Riddick on the Record'. IGN. Retrieved 2007-06-26.
  8. ^'News: The Chronicles Of Riddick: Assault On Dark Athena Announced'. GamersHell.com. 2007-05-22. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
  9. ^Pattison, Narayan (July 7, 2008). 'Activision Drops Several Vivendi Games'. IGN. Retrieved 2008-09-13.
  10. ^'Dark Athena 'Just About Done' - News at Gamespot'. Gamespot. October 31, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-31.
  11. ^'Atari Picks Up Riddick'. Kotaku. October 31, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-31.
  12. ^Nelson, Randy (December 2, 2008). 'Riddick: Dark Athena coming early '09, features new 10-hour campaign'. Joystiq. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
  13. ^'Steam Powered copy protection'.
  14. ^'Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena'. GOG.com. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. DRM-FREE. No activation or online connection required to play
  15. ^GOG.com team. 'Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - Removal'. GOG forum. unfortunately, Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena will be leaving the GOG.com catalog
  16. ^'Review: Chronicles Of Riddick: Assault On Dark Athena - Edge Magazine'. Next-gen.biz. 2009-04-16. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
  17. ^Kim, Tae K. (June 2009). 'The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena for Xbox 360/PS3'. GamePro. GamePro Media. 21 (6): 81. ISSN1042-8658. OCLC19231826. Archived from the original on 2009-04-11. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
  18. ^'The Chronicles Of Riddick: Assault On Dark Athena Video Game, Review HD Video Clip Game Trailers & Videos'. GameTrailers.com. 2009-04-07. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
  19. ^'The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena Review, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena Xbox 360 Review'. GameSpot.com. 2009-04-07. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
  20. ^Pfister, Andrew. 'Riddick: Dark Athena Review for 360, PS3, PC from'. 1UP.com. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
  21. ^'Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena Review (Xbox 360, PS3)'. Gaming Age. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
  22. ^Wilks, Daniel (April 2009). 'Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena'. Hyper. Next Media (187): 50, 51. ISSN1320-7458.

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In the award-winning Kingdom series, players took on the role of a monarch struggling to build their kingdom up from nothing. Hundreds of thousands of players across the world explored, recruited loyal subjects, and defended nightly against the persistent threat of the Greed – but they did so in isolation, and as with all things in Kingdom, nothing lasts… until now.
Kingdom Two Crowns builds upon the challenging micro strategy experience with an evolution of the celebrated franchise. Introducing the brand-new campaign mode, monarchs must now work to build a kingdom that stands over time until finding a way to defeat the Greed for good. Recruit new unit types and develop advanced technologies to bolster your defenses. Explore fresh environments to discover new mounts and secrets hidden in the deep. Revisit and revitalize your kingdom in its entirety as you move onward through the campaign.
But you don’t have to rule alone! Introducing a cooperative play experience that is totally unique to Kingdom Two Crowns, monarchs can now choose between a classic solo experience or seek the assistance of a friend, working together locally or online, dropping in or out at will.
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Brand-new campaign mode:

  • Built upon the classic micro strategy that made Kingdom successful, monarchs can now build lasting kingdoms in a multi-stage campaign to stop the assault of the Greed for good.

Two crowns to rule them all:

  • The struggle to build your kingdom need not be ventured alone! Strategize and defend your realm together in local or online drop-in/drop out co-op.

New features, new strategies:

  • A wealth of new features from technology upgrades to unit types to secrets to enemies, monarchs will need to plan wisely to see their kingdom flourish.
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Storage: 4 GB available space
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