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Riddick's Assault on Dark Athena demo up on XBLM, full of 'ulaks'

by Ludwig Kietzmann on Mar 4th 2009 11:30AM

Gravelly-voiced space crook news now, with a demo version of The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena arriving on the Xbox Live Marketplace. In addition to piloting Vin Diesel through the presumably dark corridors of the titular Athena, you'll be able to pilot a "drone" through one of the demo's segments. We're not really sure how different those two really are, but the latter makes for an interesting bullet point in the press release.

Those uninterested in bullets can also take a stab at wielding Riddick's "razor-sharp ulaks," though we'll remind you that bringing an ulak to a disintegrator fight is always a bad idea. Look for the demo on PSN later this March, and the full game on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on April 7th (April 24th if you live in Europe).

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (3/4/09)

Tags: Assault-on-Dark-Athena, Chronicles-of-Riddick, Chronicles-of-Riddick-Assault-on-Dark-Athena, Demo, FPS, Microsoft, Stardock, Vin-Diesel, XBLM, Xbox-360, Xbox-Live

Reader Comments (25)

Is this like a space Max Payne? The 1st movie was decent, the 2nd pretty mediocre. Don't know what to expect what this would actually be like, anyone playing it yet?

Well its a remake of Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, with a ton more stuff included (10 plus hours of gameplay). So I'd advise looking up reviews and videos of that. It is not like Max Payne, it is more like Thief mixed with a First Person fighting/shooter. The story and characters were great in the first one, and I hope they keep it up in this one. Definitely going to get it.

Playing right now...I don't know how I feel yet. The look sensitivity makes Killzone 2 feel like CoD and acceleration only makes it worse. :-\

"The look sensitivity makes Killzone 2 feel like CoD and acceleration only makes it worse. :-\"

So, uh, what exactly are you implying?

The look sensitivity is painfully insensitive; without acceleration on, your view barely changes by moving the right stick. And with acceleration on, any overcompensation you make is then magnified enormously.

It'll take a LOT of getting used to.

And I don't like that B is reload without any ability to change that. :-\

Ah. Well if it's so hard to turn your head as Vin Diesel, then it must be pretty realistic. I mean, have you seen that dude's neck?!

Yeah, they must've modeled it after the look sensitivity of a 232 year old California Redwood.

You know, to enhance him for teh games.

lol

I'm on page 60-something of the official controller input thread for KZ2 on the Playstation forums... it's mostly the same drivel over and over, but some of it is entertaining to read at work.

Whoa, nice surprise.

Download link: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/offers/0DDF0001-0000-4000-8000-0000494787F9

That's pretty rad. I'm assuming however this doesn't power up my 360 at home to download it? Remote on & off for downloads would be pretty cool.

@ Markez
Yeah, it just adds it to the quequeu=es (however that is spelled). When you turn it on it will start downloading. I find it faster this way. The marketplace seems slow at loading these days. Remote on and off would be sweet. Or a low power state to allow us to start remote downloads and then to download them and then go back to the low power state. Something like that would be cool.

So when can we expect a PC demo?

After release I assume.

Awesome, downloading now. I sure hope this fills that empty place in my heart for more Vin D love.

I'm not even gonna download this. I'm buying it day one. I've recently stopped playing demos. Why? Take the Dead Space demo. HORRIBLE demo and it leaves a bad taste in your mouth about the game. Which makes sense as to why every RE fanboy and his mother say that Dead Space isn't great. There is always gamefly though.

RE stopped being survival horror at RE4. It is now an action game. It's not creepy anymore like it used to be, sure it may be about survivng, but this is as much survival horror as Doom at this point.

Not saying it's bad, but it's totally not survival horror anymore. I got the game reserved still :P

@Swagman

You took the words straight out of my fingertips. It's just a shame that most RE fans don't see this. My biggest gripe with the Resident Evil series has been the controls. I have tried many times to get into them but I just get pissed off and give up. They say it's to add tension. I call bullshit. Dead Space throws tension at you at every orifice of your body and it doesn't play like a fucking tank simulator.

I LOVED Riddick: Escape from Butchers Bay. Definitely one of the best Xbox games to be released. Not only is there multiplayer but a completely new campaign. I would have paid full price for the new campaign alone. Its awesome that you can choose stealth, or guns blazing combat; in addition drones add a new element. Its brutal and vulgar and wonderful. Advanced controls allow you to change the sensitivity to your hearts content and even turn down/off auto-aim. Can't really say there were any faults with the demo. Not sure if it runs in 1080 p but it looked great on my TV. The frame rate is great but there are a few more jaggies than I like. Anyone else a Riddick fan?

OH HELL YES!

I am putting this on my QUEUE right now now! I can't wait!

I've tried to play it twice now and it crashed my 360 twice. The first time the screen went completely black (while I was controlling the drone). The second time I restarted my 360, reloaded the demo and right when I pressed Y to "interrupt" the conversation, vertical static-y lines appeared, I heard a faint buzzing noise, and my 360 froze.

I don't think its my 360 that's the problem as it's worked fine with everything else I've tried (both before and after this incident). Anybody else having this problem?

Did your screen go Pitch Black?
...

Just couldn't resist it, sorry.

I lol'ed

It did actually. Well, pitch black with a blue bar across it that said "input not accepted'.

:(

Can't wait for this game :P

Looks pretty good, I never got a chance to play the one on the original Xbox, so I may pick this one up as I enjoyed the demo.

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