Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena multiplayer details

[Queasy]

Sweet

Starbreeze has divulged details on Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena's unique multiplayer modes, including a poo-your-pants 'Pitch Black' game set, yes, in the dark.

Spilled in the latest issue of Official Xbox Magazine US, Riddick's new online modes include the obligatory 12-player deathmatch and capture the flag modes, as well as an interesting Butcher Bay Riot game that pitches three teams of four against each other.

Teams include guards, mercenaries and prisoners, each tasked with fighting their way to and activating a central power cell. Although each team apparently plays the same, the implementation of a Counter-Strike-style weapon purchase system sounds fun - and at least it's not Halo 3 with Vin Diesels.

As we mentioned though the most exciting mode revealed is Pitch Black, which puts combatants in a big dark arena and makes one of them a fast-moving, ultra blade-wielding Riddick - the others are just grunts with guns and flashlights. Good luck.

If the grunts can manage to spot and kill Riddick - who can see clearly in the dark, by the way - they can become Riddick in the next round. This is going to be shit scary, and you know it.

20 maps are planned for the final game, which is out early next year.

 

[Kabob]

Hope it plays as well as the first game. Looks good.

 

[R Nilla]

Sounds very similar to The Hidden Half-Life 2 mod. One player is an invisible superhuman killing machine, the rest are grunts trying to find and kill it.

 

[Gunslinger08]

I'm excited for this. Really enjoyed the first game.

 

[Queasy]

I think the cool thing is that, like the Orange Box, you're getting a lot of value with this game.

You're getting an upgraded and expanded Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher bay along with Assault on Dark Athena with multiplayer.

 

[Kabob]

Originally posted by: R Nilla
Sounds very similar to The Hidden Half-Life 2 mod. One player is an invisible superhuman killing machine, the rest are grunts trying to find and kill it.

Or Mutant (I think it was called) from UT2K4.

 

[R Nilla]

Originally posted by: Queasy
I think the cool thing is that, like the Orange Box, you're getting a lot of value with this game.

You're getting an upgraded and expanded Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher bay along with Assault on Dark Athena with multiplayer.

:thumbsup: I wouldn't mind seeing more of this. This is the kind of treatment I had originally hoped the Xbox Originals line would receive (at least slightly upgraded graphics and achievements).

I have never played Butcher Bay so I'm excited about this.

 

[Oyeve]

Sweet. COR:BB was way underatted. It was actually a pretty damn good game.

 

[Kromis]

Originally posted by: Oyeve
Sweet. COR:BB was way underatted. It was actually a pretty damn good game.

I wouldn't say it was underrated. I'd say it was overlooked.

 

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: Kromis

Originally posted by: Oyeve
Sweet. COR:BB was way underatted. It was actually a pretty damn good game.

I wouldn't say it was underrated. I'd say it was overlooked.

Yea it's not like it got bad scores. People just saw the name and were like meh, another crappy game based on a movie. Oh were they wrong.