Chronicles of Riddick, The - Assault on Dark Athena (USA)
PlayStation 3
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Reviewed in 2009
78
✪ Reviewed on April 13, 2025
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Chronicles of Riddick Assault on Dark Athena compiles the original game and its sequel in an oppressive space prison. Playing Riddick is a unique experience: brutal melee, stealth, glowing eyes. Excellent.
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First-Person Shooter1 player18+
Description
Atari double compilation bundling the remastered Escape from Butcher Bay and the new Assault on Dark Athena. Published by Atari, released in Europe in April 2009. Stealth and first-person shooting, hand-to-hand combat as Riddick, two complete campaigns and multiplayer mode. European version.
Chronicles of Riddick, The - Assault on Dark Athena review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
4/5
Story
★★★★★
"Captivating"
The art direction is built on darkness. Riddick sees in the dark, and the game then tips into a spectral rendering, a bluish monochrome where silhouettes stand out in negative, while the least source of light becomes a threat to snuff out. Metal prisons, the passages of a slaver ship, everything is sculpted in shadow and rivet. The art direction makes the absence of light a tactical advantage and an aesthetic.
The sound cultivates a muffled industrial threat. The hums of ventilation, the clicks of armored doors, the metallic echoes of a hull and the whispered voices of guards compose an oppressive background, almost without music, where each noise signals a danger or an exit. Riddick's rasping voice, calm and mocking, cuts across this mechanical din. The soundtrack makes hearing the first weapon of the hunter crouched in the dark.
The game gathers two escapes into a single story. First Butcher Bay, a prison reputed inescapable from which Riddick breaks out level after level, then the Dark Athena, a slaver ship commanded by a merciless woman, where former prisoners are turned into docile drones. The antihero has no cause, only the survival instinct and a brutal personal code, and the story rests on this figure of an untamable beast chained then loosed.
Is Chronicles of Riddick, The - Assault on Dark Athena still worth playing in 2026?
An augmented remaster from Starbreeze, The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena offers the classic Escape from Butcher Bay and a new campaign, in an FPS blending shadow stealth, brutal melee combat and snappy shooting, carried by Vin Diesel's voice. The oppressive prison mood, the quality of the staging and the genre blend make it a reference licensed game. The uneven pace of the new part weighs a little. An excellent action stealth game for fans of dark atmosphere and varied gameplay.
