The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
Format: X Box
Publisher: Vivendi Universal
Release Date: Out now Oh good about time, a game has landed on my lap that’s been advertised on TV, has an attached film out now and has received rave reviews. I’ve looked at the back of the cover at the screenshots which look gorgeous and am now salivating as my trembling hand puts the game in my XBox. It’s loaded and things still look good, I’ll just press start and proceed to play.
Oh no, it’s garbage, I’m going to have to lie down for a while and continue later. It’s much later now and I have played as much of this game as I can stand which is about half of it. You start off banged up in nick with no weapons, and for quite a while you get to walk around and try to talk people to death, but this doesn’t work, so you can try having a few punch ups to establish yourself as the Daddy. | "I’ve looked at the back of the cover at the screenshots which look gorgeous and am now salivating as my trembling hand puts the game in my XBox." | | Dave Vague |
You do eventually get some weapons which makes you think the game might be good - which it is for a while but soon enough you’ll lose them and it will become really bad again as you try to stealth people to death. On the plus side, the graphics are superb with characters looking like a title screen and absolutely excellent scenery and attention to detail. I particularly liked the poo smeared all over the cell walls, obviously had some provos in for a stretch. I think the graphics might be too good as the control is as slick as a thing that isn’t slick at all, and when you spend so much time walking around doing bugger all you need slick control. You can do some cool stuff, after all the weapons do have a real kick and you can shoot people's faces off at close range. You can also see in the dark but if the lights are on while you use this facility you will blind you, so don’t make the same mistake I did and find out where the switch is. I find enjoyment from most types of games and rarely give such a damning review, so bear in mind that I hated Metroid Prime, which everybody I know loved and a review is only one persons opinion. Some of you are going to like this game. 2/10 | 
