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The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena by Graeme Strachan | 07-05-09

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It's hard not to love Richard B. Riddick; effortlessly cool, sharply intelligent and a completely homocidal brick shithouse to boot. The sociopathic, silver-eyed, anti-hero of the movie Pitch Black and it's various spin-offs is one of the best Sci-fi characters invented in the last ten years. Which is why it's easy to understand the annoyance felt by XBOX owners when it turned out that the original videogame prequel Escape from Butcher Bay wouldn't work on their shiny new XBOX 360s.

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Assault on Dark Athena: Preview by Brian Ashford | 28-04-09

Five years ago any game based on a movie would have three things in common. It would be a third-person action game, it would be released on the massively successful Playstation 2 and it would be a bit rubbish. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay however was none of these things. Not only an Xbox exclusive first-person shooter, it also happened to be very good.

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'Cut!!' - The Curse of the Movie Tie-In by Dave Cook | 26-01-09

Largely uninspired, lacklustre cash cows which are commonly bereft of any form of imagination. Movie tie-in games are often seen as the scourge of the industry by critics and gamers the world over after so many awful misfires. Hollywood is full of great characters and stories just ripe for the video game treatment, yet so many of these interpretations end up an awful mess when placed next to standalone titles.