“Then you gotta get sent to a slam where they say you’ll never see daylight again.  You dig up a doctor and you pay him menthol Kools to do a surgical shine job on your eyeballs.”  The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay was one of my favorite Xbox titles.  Starbreeze Studios delivered an amazing hit years ago for the original Xbox and to date the game has yet to make it on the backward compatible list for the Xbox 360.  I guess now we know why.  Starbreeze is delivering a little bit of Riddick to Xbox 360 owners this Fall and I’m ready for it!

Taking advantage of new hardware technologies, the game will present a reinvention of Escape from Butcher Bay, delivering 2004’s award winning experience in high definition with stunning enhancements.  Also included is the Dark Athena chapter, an expansion of the original game with an exciting new story and new gameplay features.  Scheduled to ship later in 2007, it is being produced under license from Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group, in association with Vin Diesel’s Tigon Studios, and is being developed by Starbreeze Studios, acclaimed developer of the original edition.

With The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, players will not only be challenged to survive Butcher Bay, but will also engage in a new single-player experience and, for the first time in the Riddick universe, take action in intense multi-player combat. The game introduces the ominous Merc-ship Dark Athena, which sits silent like a marauding spider, awaiting helpless prey in the dark reaches of the galaxy. Players must face a large, bloodthirsty operation led by the dreaded Captain Revas and her slaves-turned-controllable combat drones, storm though death-defying events and fight fierce enemies in a battle of malice and gore.