The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena



The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is a remake/sequel to the 2004 game The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. It features the entire Butcher Bay campaign, featuring updated graphics as well as the new story aboard the vessel Dark Athena.

Dark Athena's story begins where Butcher Bay left off after Riddick and Johns escaped together. While in stasis sleep, they are taken forcibly aboard the Dark Athena, a massive mercenary vessel. The ship is run by Gale Revas and her second in command, Spinner. Whilst Johns is captured, Riddick manages to escape and must now fight his way off the ship to safety.

Whilst the game's AI showed its age a bit and the multiplayer disappointed, it was received very well and proved to be enjoyable to fans of the first game and newcomers alike. It was also praised for its great voice acting.


 * Anticlimax Boss: Spinner in Dark Athena
 * Bag of Spilling: In the, she kicks you and your assault rifle flies under the table. Yet, when the game starts up again, all you weapons are gone besides your club, blades, and fists. Additionally, you often lose any NanoMED cartridges you have in your inventory when transitioning between levels.
 * Bond One-Liner:
 * (Riddick : "When I say goodbye, it's forever."
 * Bounty Hunter: The ship in Dark Athena is half this, half private military force/slave ship.
 * Break the Cutie: Lynn Silverman of Dark Athena gets hit hard with this trope.
 * Chekhov's Gunman:
 * Dark Action Girl: Revas in Dark Athena.
 * Elite Mooks: The red-armored Mercs with red googles encountered towards the end of Dark Athena have insane amounts of armor and can take more than a full magazine of assault rifle fire to kill. Most players never notice this, though, since by that point in the game you're given a One-Hit Kill rifle with unlimited ammo.
 * Fate Worse Than Death: Getting turned into a Drone in Dark Athena. At one point Riddick encounters two prisoners in the middle of the conversion process, and both beg him to mercy kill them. It's up to the player to oblige them.
 * The Future Is Noir
 * Human Resources: The Ghost Drones. Human prisoners gutted, lobotomized, and given rudimentary AIs that can be overridden by a human operator.
 * I Love the Dead: In Dark Athena Jaylor states in no uncertain terms that he intends to do this to Ellen Silverman after first killing her as soon as the prisoner riot starts..
 * Nintendo Hard: Hard mode. Stealth is an absolute must. Luckily, the only thing that changes is enemy damage. Their health and intelligence remains the same.
 * No Pronunciation Guide: Revas. Riddick/Vin Diesel pronounces it as "Reh-vis," while every other character in the game says it as "Ree-vis."
 * Strong Flesh, Weak Steel: In Assault on Dark Athena,
 * Video Game Cruelty Potential: In Assault on Dark Athena a helpless prisoner on the Athena is being converted into a Drone. He asks you to kill him to spare him this fate, but you can just leave him lying there, in which case you may well imagine him as one of the Drones you kill later in the game.
 * Wasted Song: Assault on Dark Athena contains a very brief sequence in which the player can control Drones, during which the ordinarily ambient soundtrack is dropped for an awesome techno beat... which is used nowhere else in the game and appears to be impossible to find in MP3 format. Is this it?