The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
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| Developer(s) |
Starbreeze Studios Tigon Studios |
| Publisher(s) | Atari |
| Producer(s) | Lars Johansson |
| Designer(s) | Jerk Gustafsson |
| Programmer(s) | Magnus Högdahl |
| Artist(s) | Mattias Snygg |
| Writer(s) | Tommy Tordsson Mikael Säker John Zuur Platten Flint Dille |
| Composer(s) | Gustaf Grefberg |
| Platform(s) | Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 |
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Mac OS X
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| Genre(s) | First-person shooter, action-adventure, stealth |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | B- |
| Edge | 8/10 |
| Game Informer | 9.5/10 (Game of the Month, May 2009) |
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  (360/PS3) |
| GameTrailers | 8.4 |
| IGN | 7.4/10 |
| OXM (US) | 9.0/10 |
| TeamXbox | 8.8/10 |
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is a science fiction first-person action video game for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Mac OS X. 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. The game was released on April 7, 2009. A demo was released on Xbox Live on March 4, 2009, with a PlayStation Network release following on March 12, 2009. Virtual Programming released the Mac OS X version on April 16, 2010 as a download through Deliver2Mac.com and other digital distribution web sites.
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.
Dark Athena has improved graphics and artificial intelligence (AI) from Butcher Bay 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.
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.
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