It's been quite a surprise today to discover that a playable demo of The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena was available on Xbox Live today, and it's also been quite a pleasure to record these two videos. The demo is short, but confirms that Riddick is back and is as good as ever!
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Controls are a bit funny but after 5 minutes you get the hang of it .
Even in this demo you already feel that the story and gameplay and also the great ideas are amazing.
This game will rock !!!
The use of the knives is sick as hell, the cutscene where he stabs de sitted man like a piece of meat is as awfull ( in a good way ) as the Zoom-in scenes in CSI. Yuck!
Really enjoyed the demo here, it looks good, plays well and finally I can shoot while leaning also the best part from EfBB was IMO the adventure stuff like doing sidequests and as long as they keep that in DA i'm buying it. Day one.
The use of the knives is sick as hell, the cutscene where he stabs de sitted man like a piece of meat is as awfull ( in a good way ) as the Zoom-in scenes in CSI. Yuck!
I played it on Hard, and it's a great challenge. I'm a huge stealth guy, so this is a Day 1 purchase, since it'll be a 20 hour game.
What I don't like about this - the level geometry looks like an Xbox 1 game with higher-res textures. The lighting is also Xbox 1 stuff, with basic pin sharp shadows. The horrible fish eye perspective which is so OTT it makes me ill looking at it. But mostly the gameplay, which just seemed kind of dull and basic. Maybe it's just a dated game now and things have moved on.
What I don't like about this - the level geometry looks like an Xbox 1 game with higher-res textures. The lighting is also Xbox 1 stuff, with basic pin sharp shadows. The horrible fish eye perspective which is so OTT it makes me ill looking at it. But mostly the gameplay, which just seemed kind of dull and basic. Maybe it's just a dated game now and things have moved on.
And I also need to say that they seemingly left the A.I. untouched.
The enemys are remarkably stupid...
But then why did you even preorder it. Its partly ported, so you didn't need to be a fortune teller to know that geometry etc. stays as simple as it was.
Nevertheless very entertaining franchise. Will buy for sure, but for PC. ^^
What I don't like about this - the level geometry looks like an Xbox 1 game with higher-res textures. The lighting is also Xbox 1 stuff, with basic pin sharp shadows. The horrible fish eye perspective which is so OTT it makes me ill looking at it. But mostly the gameplay, which just seemed kind of dull and basic. Maybe it's just a dated game now and things have moved on.