The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
Developer(s)Starbreeze Studios
Tigon Studios
Publisher(s)Atari Interactive
Producer(s)Samuel Ranta-Eskola
Designer(s)Jerk Gustafsson
Programmer(s)Magnus Högdahl
Artist(s)Mattias Snygg
Writer(s)
  • Tommy Tordsson
  • Mikael Säker
  • John Zuur Platten
  • Flint Dille
Composer(s)Gustaf Grefberg
SeriesThe Chronicles of Riddick
Platform(s)
ReleaseWindows, PS3, X360
  • NA: April 7, 2009
  • EU: April 24, 2009[1]
Mac OS X
  • WW: April 16, 2010
Genre(s)Action-adventure, stealth
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is a science fiction first-person action video game for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360[2] and Mac OS X.[3] The game is a sequel to The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, which was remade and included along with the Assault on Dark Athena campaign.[4] The game was released on April 7, 2009.[5] A demo was released on Xbox Live on March 4, 2009, with a PlayStation Network release following on March 12, 2009.[6] Virtual Programming released the Mac OS X version on April 16, 2010, as a download through Deliver2Mac.com and other digital distribution web sites.[7]

The game was developed by Tigon Studios and Starbreeze Studios, and published by Atari Interactive. According to Ian Stevens, Head of Production at Tigon Studios, the decision to do a remake was because Microsoft could not make the Xbox 360 backward compatible with Escape from Butcher Bay, and because they wanted to get the Escape story to a larger audience before progressing further.[8]

Dark Athena has improved graphics and artificial intelligence (AI) from Butcher Bay along with the addition of a multiplayer mode. The single player mode has also been expanded to include Riddick escaping onto a mercenary ship called Dark Athena. Vin Diesel, the voice and likeness of the title character, was involved in the production of Assault on Dark Athena.

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  3. ^ Cruse, Cord (April 16, 2010). "The Chronicles Of Riddick Coming To Macs Today". Inside Mac Games. Archived from the original on September 29, 2010. Retrieved May 2, 2010.
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  6. ^ "Riddick demo on Xbox Live". Eurogamer. March 4, 2009. Archived from the original on September 24, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2009.
  7. ^ Games (April 16, 2010). "The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena Hits Deliver2Mac | Games". The Mac Observer. Archived from the original on October 4, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2011.
  8. ^ Dunham, Jeremy (May 25, 2007). "Riddick on the Record". IGN. Archived from the original on March 22, 2012. Retrieved June 26, 2007.