The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena — PRE-OWNED

This game is a lot of fun to play. Many hours of game play.

Played it a long time ago and fun bringing back memories

"Darkness, you afraid? I'm not, . . . the dark is afraid of me." This statement made by Riddick(performed so eloquently by Vin Diesel himself) later in the game sums up the gritty, dark mood of one of the XBox's and Playstation's greatest titles. Being a gamer for nearly 2 decades now I can rightly state that most film related game titles are either horribly programmed or "campy" at best. Vivendi Universal along with Vin Diesel's own Tigon Studios broke the mold here. This collaboration of storyline, theme, game design, gameplay, and voice-over talent is outstanding. Not only does this game add to a film-based universe in beautifully rendered graphics and, perhaps, some of the best lighting in a game; but the player is completely immersed in it. As you play it is not hard at all to take in the gritty nature of Butcher Bay. You can practically 'smell' the garbage discarded around trash cans. You can even nearly 'feel' the bones snapping or the pierced flesh as you stealthilly dispose of your assailants. This game takes the classic First Person shooter and turns it on it's ear adding unique hand-to-hand combat and strategy. I highly recommend this game to any FPS fan. It will sneak up on you and before you know it you'll be grinning with glee to the tune of Riddick's gutteral threats. *HOWEVER, I must note that this game is definately not for children. It bears a MA rating and VERY rightly so. So, we need not have any 9 year olds pouncing out of the shadows on thier unsuspecting siblings now.