Chronicles of Riddick The - Escape from Butcher Bay
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay uses stealth, melee, shooting, and prison role-playing for Riddick's escape. This catalogue entry evaluates the recorded original-platform release, including its period-specific controls, presentation, content structure, hardware limits, and intended mode of play.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.8 / 10
About this game
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay uses stealth, melee, shooting, and prison role-playing for Riddick's escape. First-person stealth, melee, and prison immersion are innovative, while lighting, voices, quests, and pacing are strong. Late gunplay trails stealth, and loading, ai, and old controls show age. This assessment covers the catalogued release. This description covers the original xbox release represented by this catalog entry and does not assume conveniences introduced by later ports. The assessment also treats period hardware limits, documented mechanics, original controls, and release-specific access as explicit evaluation boundaries.
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The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay uses stealth, melee, shooting, and prison role-playing for Riddick's escape.
First-person stealth, melee, and prison immersion are innovative, while lighting, voices, quests, and pacing are strong. Late gunplay trails stealth, and loading, ai, and old controls show age. This assessment covers the catalogued release. Overall, its main strengths are First-person stealth, melee, and prison immersion are innovative; Lighting, voices, quests, and pacing are strong. Its material limitations are Late gunplay trails stealth; Loading, AI, and old controls show age. This score covers the original platform release represented by this catalog record and excludes conveniences added by emulators or later ports. The conclusion also accounts for original hardware readability, input, and access conditions. Documented uncertainty remains explicit. The evidence supports this balance.
Strengths
- First-person stealth, melee, and prison immersion are innovative
- Lighting, voices, quests, and pacing are strong
Weaknesses
- Late gunplay trails stealth
- Loading, AI, and old controls show age
Who it is for: Players who value first-person stealth, melee, and prison immersion are innovative and accept this release's limits.
Play notes: Expect late gunplay trails stealth and loading, ai, and old controls show age.
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| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Lighting, voices, quests, and pacing are strong; Loading, AI, and old controls show age. | Reviewed | 8.6 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension First-person stealth, melee, and prison immersion are innovative; Late gunplay trails stealth. | Reviewed | 9.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Lighting, voices, quests, and pacing are strong; presentation is judged within the original platform conditions, with no bonus for age alone. | Reviewed | 9.2 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Judged on the original xbox release's input, readability, saving, and accessory conditions. Late gunplay trails stealth. | Reviewed | 8.0 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Starbreeze StudiosTigon Studios
- Publisher
- Vivendi Games
- Release date
- 2004
- Platforms
- Original Xbox
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Tags
- First PersonStealth3D GraphicsMelee CombatScience FictionStory-drivenMain Story Under 10 HoursShooting
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- Original XboxWorldwide2004
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