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Well, so much for waiting for The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena to release anytime this year. Speaking to Pro-G, a Sierra Entertainment spokesperson has confirmed that the game, which is a reinvention of the highly acclaimed Xbox / PC shooter with better visuals, 40% extra content and online multiplayer over Xbox Live, has been delayed to 2008. Neither Starbreeze Studios, which just wrapped up and released The Darkness a month or so ago, nor Sierra Entertainment have given a reason for the delay. (sigh) Another day, another game gets delayed. Looks like Valve has spoiled all developers silly, with them changing release dates more often than they change their shirts.
First, you gotta kill a few people. Then you got to get sent to a slam, where they tell you you’ll never see daylight again. You dig up a doctor, and you pay him 20 menthol Kools to do a surgical shine job on your eyeballs.
So you can see who’s sneaking up on you in the dark?
Exactly!
Meet the ultimate badass - Richard B. Riddick. Escaped Convict. Murderer. After two movies and a game that redefined and raised the bar for a title that was based on a movie, Vin Diesel’s likeness will once again grace a game. In case you are wondering whether videogame lover Diesel has announced the remaining sequels in the Riddick trilogy and a barrage of new games for it, hold the phone! It has now been confirmed that Escape from Butcher Bay is getting the next-gen treatment as The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. Based on the scavenger ship on which the new levels take place, Dark Athena will come packing with 40% extra meat, a cool new multiplayer mode and the PC’s Developer Commentary and would be gracing the Xbox 360 and the PS3 later this year. Stay tuned for more information as a new trailer and gameplay footage is rumoured to be released later today. And there you were, wondering why TCoR: EfBB wasn’t backward compatible on the Xbox 360. Time for the furious Furyan to pick up those curved blades and stalk the victims from extremely detailed shadows. We wonder who’s handling the port, now that Starbreeze is completely stuck up on The Darkness!
Update: We have more on the story from GamesPress, and here it is, straight from the horse’s mouth:
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.
via [Kotaku]