The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
 

This game seems to have came out of nowhere, and looks very impressive, judging by the videos and screen shots I have seen. The models look very realistic, and the gameplay looks pretty fun. My only concern is that I am not a big fan of console FPS games, I much rather play on my PC.


It seems this is slated to come out 6/1, the same day as Full Spectrum Warrior, so I think I will be waiting for a price drop on this one.


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The demo on the Official Xbox demo disc is sweet, a little too short though.

I was thinking about picking up the magazine for that demo alone, but I didn't think it would be worth it.


Does someone have an extra demo or one they don't want, and would be willing to part with it for the cost of shipping?

It does look like it could be good. But you I never have high hopes, for every EA LOTR game, there's 20 Enter the Matrix quality or worse games out there.

Plus, ETM looked good from the previews.

That is my only worry. With the movie coming out just a week or so after it's release, I am hoping that it won't be a buggy pile of crap. I am thinking this won't be the case, since people seem to enjoy the demo.

You guys should have seen the crowd waiting to see Vin Diesel at E3 this afternoon!!!

I quickly left as it was impossible to navigate through the Universal mega booth after he arrived.

Game scored a 9/10 in one of the recent Xbox mags (forget which one, one of the freebies I get).

XBN

Flashburn,

For less than $2 a month, you can subscribe and get a usually great demo disc every month. Sure, the mag is mostly crap, but the discs are worth at least $5 a month in my mind. And even if only 3 a year interest you, a subscription saves you money.

Thanks for the tip, I never realized it was that cheap. I might just do that.

Do you have a link to that offer or do you have to buy the magazine and then send in the card?

If anyone is interested, I'm able to order the game from my job at a discount. Since I'll be ordering the game for myself I can get 4 more copies. I did this previously with Metal Arms so some of you may remember me. My name is listed on the good traders list. Here's the breakdown on price, it'll be $22.67 plus shipping($2 for usps, $4 UPS) US dvdtalkers only.

I no longer have any available copies of Chronicles of Riddick. If you are interested in any other games that are made by VU Games please let me know.

I can also get Van Helsing(ps2,xbox,gba) if anyone's interested.

YGM! You rule for hooking some of us up with Metal Arms for cheap.

The PsiOps demo on this month's disc is cool, too... QUITE intriguing

The game looked sweet... I'm gonna have to pick this up.

YGM.

The price at their website and on the cards in magazine fluctuates. I've seen everything from 19.95 to 29.95 per year.

I can vouch for Alexkat for this and any other deal.

Sucks that I didn't see this in time as I would have jumped on the deal.

Okay - so who got this and what do you think?

Apparantly the game looks and plays a lot better than the demo (which wasn't too bad).

Fry's has it for $34.99.

Should get my copy early next week from Alexkat.

Picked up my copy today, and I must say that I am very surprised. I based my purchase on the reviews that I have been reading and the demo that I played a couple weeks ago, and I can honestly say that this is probably the best Xbox game I've played all year next to Ninja Gaiden. Incredible graphics, amazing gameplay--what more could one ask for? Currently I'm trying to navigate my way through the mines, and I hope to have the game completed sometime tomorrow.

Yeah, this is a really good game. It's all been said already, though :).

Anyone know where to find Abbot in the pig level? Gamefaqs has no help as of yet.

Anyone else find this to be somewhat contradictory?

It's funny but this is the game that is finally going to make me buy an X-box. Not KOTOR* or Halo* but a game based on a movie!?!?! How insane is that? I guess it doesn't hurt that I really enjoyed the first movie and also like Vin Diesel's VO work a lot. I can't wait to play this.

*However I will get these very soon.

There was a pretty good making of special for this game on G4TechTV (ugh what a name). If G4 is true to its roots, it will be rerun 50 times before the movie comes out.

Not at all, just because a game is short, doesn't mean it can't be his favorite.

According the EGM review it's only about 9 hours, so I'm definitely not picking this up. I may rent it or pick it up down the road if I can find it for $10 or in the trade forum.

Nope.

Definitely not worth $50 for only 9 hours. I'll rent it....$5 for 5 Days...plenty enough time to beat it. :D

One play-through is roughly 10 hours - but that doesn't take into account many branching paths and missions that you will miss when choosing something else - if you were able to do everything in the game in one play-through it would be closer to 20 hours.

I have a hard time getting motivated to replay games, even with branching paths. I still haven't replayed KOTOR on the dark side quest, and that's one of my favorite games of all time. :D

Hmmm, we've had bad games based on bad movies (tomb raider, most super hero games), good games based on good movies (the two towers, return of the king), bad games based on bad movies that are sequels of good movies (enter the matrix).

Now, will the movie live up to the game? Or will we have a good game that is based on a bad movie? :)

Well it is not really based on the movie, it is a prequel to it. I can't remember the exact timeline, but I believe the game takes place before Pitch Black.

It does indeed, it's a prequel to both movies.

Tomb Raider was not based on a movie.

Yep, that should go in the bad movie based on a bad game category. ;)

Correct, but in this case, I am referring to the "Cradle of Life" game and movie; I believe that for this episode of the Tomb Raider series, the video game was released to capitalize on the release of the Movie, and not t'other way 'round. So, to be more specific, this was a case of a bad game being based off a bad movie, which is based off a bad game series.

Although, the world was not exactly clamoring for the release of either version.

There was no Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life game.

Pixy's right, there was no Cradle of Life game. Angel of Darkness was the game, and it was just the next in the series, and had nothing to do with the movie, though you're right in that they did rush it out to come out around the movie.

Just wanted to say that Pitch Black was a good movie, bit of a sleeper hit i guess.

I picked up the new release w/ the free ticket to Riddick. Now I can gift out or sell my old version.