Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay
Here we have the rarest of rare scenarios: Escape From Butcher Bay is a game that is an outright triumph in every way the film it was meant to tie-in with is not. Yes, there’s still a goofy charm to Chronicles of Riddick: The Film, the kind of bro-ey nerd charm you can only get from one Vincent Diesel, Esq. It actually feels more like a one-shot D&D/Warhammer campaign than anything else, and nobody was even attempting that in 2004.
Escape from Butcher Bay, however, is every inch the sequel to Pitch Black the world needed and wanted. The game is a down and dirty, stealthy prison escape scenario with an excellent “see-in-the-dark” mechanic, awash in character actors, and a lot of Riddick shanking people in the spine. And the game pulled all this off while still serving some satisfying Furyan lore expansion. For some reason, we haven’t gotten 10 sequels to this yet.
