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Chronicles of Riddick: Is that a shiv in your pocket?
Basticle
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I've never actually seen Pitch Black or The Chronicles of Riddick (though this game has pushed both to the top of my Netflix queue) but I picked up the PC version of this last year sometime for $3.99 at Big Lots. In an attempt to go through my enormous backlog, I decided to actually play this.
Even though this is 2 and a half years old, I can't remember a first person shooter that seemed more original in it's gameplay. It mixes stealth, RPG-style quests and regular first person shooting action very well. I've never once gotten bored.
This is definately one of the best movie-liscenced games ever. Apparently it takes place prior to the aforementioned films, and explains how Riddick got his powers. You get shipped to Butcher Bay, a prison facility on a desolate desert planet.
Also the engine is worth noting. It looks a lot like the Doom 3 engine but one thing I love is that for once in a FPS you can actually see your arms and legs pretty much at any time
At any rate, this game is all kinds of awsome. I havent finished it yet, I just completed the section where you get in the walking armor ass-kicking robot thing.
Prison yard
This guy is voiced by Michael "Chocolate Pretzel" Rooker
Crouching down you can actually see your limbs
GAH WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT
Screwdriver to the head
It's ass kicking time!
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Basically it says stuff like "Pilot is suggested to retake Mech courses."
"This unit wouldn't be so damaged if you were better."
Those probably aren't anything like what it says, but you get the idea.
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Oh, and PC version for the win; developer's commentary (some very funny stuff in there) plus a whole extra ass-kicking robot section makes it all the more special, and it runs quite well on old(er) PCs - my 256MB Radeon 9550, Athlon 2200+ and 2 gig had it looking at least as nice as the console version.
Either way, yes, it's one of the best movie licenses ever - it's rather too easy, the combat's a bit hit'n'miss and the engine goes a bit too nuts with the normal mapping at times, but other than that it's gold. Miles better than Chronicles Of. An absolute miracle from Starbreeze at the time, considering how appallingly bad Enclave and Knights of the Temple were. Roll on The Darkness.
EDIT:
Aren't there two robot sections? I assumed he was referring to the first, which doesn't have the cockpit voice. I was trying to keep the second (third if you're playing the PC version) a surprise... one of the best set-pieces in any game ever, and the cockpit voice is hysterical. Brilliantly done.
Read my book. (It has a robot in it.)
1920x1200 don't look bad though
Thought it would suck,but was very pleasantly suprised.
This was an amazingly pleasant surprise. I enjoyed Pitch Black and thought Chronices was okay, but was skeptical as all get out about a game based on Riddick, if not an actual movie. Basically the very concept seems to start out behind the eight ball.
But somehow, it all worked. The fistfighting felt natural, and it didn't seem as awkward as melee combat normally is in first person; each dropped opponent felt like a triumph, and timing a strike just right to score a one-hit kill (or turn a guard's gun on him) was tricky, but not impossible. The stealth segments were actually fun - neck-snapping, sticking a guy with a shiv, blowing out lights, it's all good. The shooting mechanics were just okay, but the action scenes themselves were really well put together.
The game just makes you feel inescapably badass with nothing more than improvised tools, stolen guns and your own two hands, and you'll use them all a lot. The high production values and great voice talent are almost just icing on an already delicious cake.
It's all fun and games once you get to the riot guard.
Edit: The riot guard section is in both PC and console versions. The heavy guard section (the smaller robot suits seen throughout the prison) is exclusive to the PC version.
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Oh, and the surviving characters from the original they either throw away or rewrite so horribly I actually felt physical pain. Absolutely appalling film. Avoid it. The game (while admittedly not amazing) has a far, far better story and tells it with so much more skill and finesse it's not funny.
And the film is like Conan in space only insofar as it's like Conan written by someone with absolutely no ability to grasp what makes/made Conan as good as it was.
EDIT: Stolls: Ah, I see. Though I thought it was the other way round - the big white one was the heavy guard (because I remember the enemies screaming "He's stolen a heavy guard!" or something like that), the little yellow ones were the riot guards. Eh, small details. The second section, the one in both, is still one of the best "All-you-bastards-are-going-to-get-it-now, ohhhhhhhhh-yes" sections in a videogame ever.
And it also has to be one of the few uses of a movie license where you really feel to any significant degree that you are in fact inhabiting the lead character. The switching to third person was just beautifully done.
...I really don't think it's as good a game as it could have been - it's still quite rough around the edges - but it just does so much right anyone who's into blockbuster sci-fi and action gaming should just pick it up no questions asked.
Read my book. (It has a robot in it.)
I still love the screaming of the guards. "What the hell are we supposed to do NOW?!" "Oh shit, he's in a heavy!" And then you stomp over them or mow them down with the minigun. It's so... just.
I do agree there was more that could've been done - I would've liked to see a little more done with the prison, and maybe a revamped triple max that wasn't quite so easy to escape from. But the whole game just works out so well, and nowadays it's like $20 new. And like I said, it's a movie game based on a series that is kind of flawed from the get-go (though, again, I dug Pitch Black quite a bit), and it somehow manages to kick considerable amounts of ass. That in itself is no mean feat.
Worth a look for anybody who even remotely likes action/stealth games.
The commentary mode on the PC version was cool, too. "Now, do you want me to sound like people expect a person to sound when they've been stabbed, or do you want how it really sounds?"
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Breakdown is another game that goes to lengths to make you feel like you are the protagonist.
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that more than meets the recommended specs, I dont know why you wouldnt be able to run it at full settings.
me either, but i was getting a terrible framerate as far as i can remember. I'll try it again soon and see what i find.
were you using the 1.1 patch?
looks like it wasnt released until 6 months after the game came out.
i got it over 6 months after its release, but i probably didn't use the patch. In that case, i'll be installing the sucker soon to bask in all its glory. Sweet.
Read my book. (It has a robot in it.)
ya i was thinkin of that game when i was writing that post. i wonder why more games haven't been made in a similiar style.
That is a most agreeable strategy :^:
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How do you use smilies?
mostly the hand to hand fighting isnt as good with kbam
Still kinda figuring that out myself. Some of them are still typed in the same, but I'm not sure about most of them. :x, :? and
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edit: wait, I already said that? I'm going senile!
p.s. the ending was great!
I made a save right before that fight just so I could beat the shit out of Xibit whenever I wanted to
lol. I was so fucking pissed you didnt get to
This man speaks the truth. The movie Chronicles of Riddick is dog shit at best. If you Netflix it, make sure you have a decent movie nearby, to help wipe the stink from your DVD player.
The game is pretty sweet though, I wish it worked on the 360 (it didn't last time I checked).
Also I just checked and you can download the game from gamestop for 19.99 might have to check this out.