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  The Chronicles of Riddick Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Riddick has spent the last five years on the move among the forgotten worlds on the outskirts of the galaxy, eluding mercenaries bent on collecting the price on his head.
So now comes "The Chronicles of Riddick", the first in what Universal is hoping to be a new trilogy of sci-fi epic films that will give them a franchise they so desperately want.
Riddick was such a great character in "Pitch Black" because he was the archetype of the anti-hero, someone forced to become heroic due only to circumstance and personal interest.
www.darkhorizons.com /reviews/riddickn.php   (1199 words)

  
 The Chronicles of Riddick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Riddick throws Toombs out of the ship and heads to Helion Prime, knowing that there is only one person who could have betrayed him: Imam, whom he saved long ago and who was the only man who knew where Riddick had gone.
Riddick and Toombs on U.V. Imam, working with Aereon (an ambassador from the mysterious and rarefied race known as the Elementals), reveals his reasons for seeking Riddick.
Riddick and company fight desperately, but two of the three prisoners are soon killed, and Riddick himself is knocked out when Vaako fires a blast from an energy gun at him while he is wrestling with a Necromonger soldier.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Riddick   (2141 words)

  
 The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay for PC Review - PC The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher ...
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay is one of those exceedingly rare types of games that delivers exceptionally high quality through and through and single-handedly ups the ante for all similar games.
To make a long story short, The Chronicles of Riddick is one of the best PC action games of the year.
The mobile Chronicles of Riddick is a good action adventure game in its own right, but perhaps it suffers a bit from the high standards Escape From Butcher Bay has set for the license, simply because it doesn't move far from familiar territory.
www.gamespot.com /pc/action/chroniclesofriddick/review.html   (1895 words)

  
 Chronicles of Riddick
Riddick (Vin Diesel) is a killing machine, a man that sees a hundred against him as odds in his favor.
Riddick is also a hunted man, an escaped convict and all round really bad guy.
She is the only one that has bonded with Riddick and can keep up with him as the body count constantly increases.
www.hometheaterinfo.com /chronicles_of_riddick.htm   (1018 words)

  
 The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay was one of the first games to utilize normal mapping (preceding Doom 3 by a few months), giving the textures a rougher, more in-depth appearance and making the game characters and environments appear more photo-realistic.
Riddick is then placed in cryo-sleep and awakens every day for approximately two minutes in the Execise Room, a futuristic-looking area that has such words as "sunset" and other pleasant words as part of rehabilitation.
Riddick, with the help of a shotgun and moreso from a minigun from his crashed ship, defeats Hoxie's personal guards and uses their rocket launchers to blast open his protective shell.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Riddick:_Escape_from_Butcher_Bay   (3900 words)

  
 The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay for Xbox Review - Xbox The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The fact that The Chronicles of Riddick also happens to be based on a movie franchise--something that's usually a bad sign for a game--makes it all the more incredible.
Riddick, a hardened criminal, is as threatening and intimidating as they come--yet there's something genuinely admirable about his no-nonsense, no-holds-barred approach to survival.
The Chronicles of Riddick is paced extremely well for an action game and will leave you riveted for the 10-or-so hours it takes you to finish the first time through.
www.gamespot.com /xbox/action/chroniclesofriddick/review.html   (1600 words)

  
 Chronicles Of Riddick > Review
The Chronicles of Riddick: The Escape from Butcher Bay was designed by a team that seems like it had to have an extensive understanding of great games and what makes them work.
Riddick is none of those games, but instead, uses some of the best qualities of those titles to create something completely new and wonderful in its own right.
Vin Diesel and Cole Hauser reprise the roles of Riddick and Johns, and the rest of the voice cast is an eclectic bunch, ranging from rapper Xzibit to Star Trek: The Next Generation's Dwight Schultz.
www.dignews.com /review.php?story_id=4494   (1175 words)

  
 DVD Review - The Chronicles of Riddick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
"The Chronicles of Riddick" is the direct sequel to the smaller cult science fiction hit "Pitch Black." 5 years prior, escaped convict Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel) barely survived crash landing on a distant planet covered in darkness and plagued by flesh eating creatures.
Written and directed by "Pitch Black" creator David Twohy, "The Chronicles of Riddick" is the first of a three-part trilogy.
"Riddick’s World" is a feature hosted by Vin Diesel himself as he walks you through the different set pieces of the film.
www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/the_chronicles_of_riddick.shtml   (1702 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Chronicles of Riddick: DVD: Vin Diesel,Colm Feore,Thandie Newton,Judi Dench,Karl Urban,Alexa ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Chronicles Of Riddick takes place after Riddick's escape from the planet of monsters on Pitch Black, starting out with his recapture after being in hiding for many years.
Riddick gets caught up with the Necromongers after he is taken to the prison planet of Crematoria, where daylight, rather than nightfall, is the killer.
Riddick is busy telling everybody that the fight with the Necromongers (who come entirely too close to the Borg from Star Trek for my liking) isn't his.
www.amazon.com /Chronicles-Riddick-Vin-Diesel/dp/B0006HBT52   (2402 words)

  
 The Chronicles of Riddick -- 2003
Dench likens her ethereal space diplomat in the sci-fi flick "The Chronicles of Riddick" (opening Friday) not to her aging Virgin Queen in "Shakespeare in Love," but to that film's star and fellow Oscar-winner, Gwyneth Paltrow.
The Chronicles of Riddick: A SCI FI Lowdown...
Working with Dench on their upcoming film "The Chronicles of Riddick," was "like a dream come true," Diesel tells Zap2it.com from the set of his latest project, "The Pacifier" in Toronto.
www.djdchronology7.com /riddick2003.htm   (4076 words)

  
 Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, The (xbx: 2004): Reviews
Chronicles of Riddick literally came out of nowhere to mesmerize us with its polished gameplay, immersive plot and unique gameplay elements.
Riddick is a game that once you start you won't want to stop, the action is paced perfectly with the storyline and it keeps you engaged the whole way through.
Although Riddick may not be the longest game on the market and the replay value is pretty much non-existent with only Live Aware and no multiplayer to be had, for doubters and non-believers alike, Chronicles of Riddick is absolutely one of the best Xbox games ever released.
www.metacritic.com /games/platforms/xbx/chroniclesofriddick   (3012 words)

  
 Kikizo Games: Xbox Review: The Chronicles of Riddick
As most of you know by now, The Chronicles of Riddick is based on the forthcoming prequel to Pitch Black starring Vin Diesel.
For a start, Chronicles of Riddick is visually stunning, as evidenced by any of these screenshots, but animation, render distance and framerate are all impeccable too.
Riddick sould be considered a big accomplishment for any developer, and the fact that it's possibly the best looking game on Xbox makes it even more so.
games.kikizo.com /reviews/xbox/chroniclesofriddick.asp   (1082 words)

  
 Chronicles of Riddick, The (2004): Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Chronicles of Riddick is half cheesy, brawny adventure and half … something else.
Chronicles doesn't pause for much character development, and is in such a hurry that even the fight scenes are abbreviated chop-chop sessions.
Riddick is a preening outer-space costume drama staged as a backdrop for its leading man's muscles.
www.metacritic.com /film/titles/chroniclesofriddick   (1420 words)

  
 The Chronicles Of Riddick: Pitch Black 2 film movie trailer review at The Z Review
Chronicles of Riddick will be released in the UK on R2 DVD on the 27th December 2004.
Keep your eyes peeled on MTV for the first 10 minutes of Vin Disel's The Chronicles of Riddick due to be shown on Sunday the 6th of June at 11pm.
Chronicles Of Riddick starring Vin Diesel, Judi Dench and Thandi Newton has a UK release date set to 20th August 2004.
www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/c/chronicleofriddick.htm   (2555 words)

  
 Filmtracks: The Chronicles of Riddick (Graeme Revell)
The Chronicles of Riddick: (Graeme Revell) When the character of Riddick first appeared on screen in the 2000 film Pitch Black, audiences and critics did not indicate that it was the kind of sci-fi horror film that could spawn a sequel.
Without much dissent, critics have hurled considerable insult at The Chronicles of Riddick (the tagline "riddick-ulous" seems to pop up in several places), mostly because of the lack of any true plotline worth caring about and, of course, the ourpouring of CGI-rendered vistas, characters, and battles that causes many viewers to either cringe or laugh.
To his credit, Revell gives us the feeling that he wanted The Chronicles of Riddick to be bigger and badder than that usual norm, flexing muscles like Vin Diesel's with a group of Los Angeles musicians and some choral extras.
www.filmtracks.com /titles/chronicles_riddick.html   (854 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Chronicles of Riddick [2004]: DVD: Vin Diesel,Colm Feore,Thandie Newton,Judi Dench,Karl Urban,Alexa ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
They take Riddick to a rogue prison planet where he is met by scorching heat, an underground penitentiary, and his female companion from PITCH BLACK, Jack (who is now called Kyra, and played by a different actress, Alexa Davalos).
Riddick, of course, presents himself as a terrible ogre, but he just can't seem to stop himself from helping the people he's trying hard not to care about.
Chronicles of Riddik is fast paced non-stop action all the way and is a classic Sci-fi flick, really entertaining and is one of best Sci-films of past few years.
www.amazon.co.uk /Chronicles-Riddick-Vin-Diesel/dp/B0006HBT52   (1471 words)

  
 The Flick Filosopher | The Chronicles of Riddick
The Chronicles of Riddick -- or, as I like to call it, When Production Designers Go Insane -- plummets to a depth in its disdain for genre audiences not witnessed since, well, Pitch Black.
I will continue to maintain, from my lonely table for one, that the 2000 predecessor to this movie is one of the most shockingly immoral celebrations of human thuggery and baseness that I've ever seen, because it reeked with a stylishness that glorified its deliberately and unsubtly depraved hero.
And by that I mean colossally awful, a disaster of Battlefield Earth proportions, a nightmare of overwrought CGI and grotesquely ornate costumes and hideous sets...
www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/2004/chroniclesriddick.shtml   (691 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (Xbox): PC & Video Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Riddick was an anti-hero in every respect describing himself as the ultimate baddass and was brought to life by newcomer and former bouncer Vin Diesel.
Vin Diesel himself brings Riddick to life with his 60-a-day gravelly delivery but all the voice actors in the game do a great job and really bring personality to their character.
The only bad thing I can say about Chronicles of Riddick is that it is quite short and there are loading times to contend with but the quality of the game is so high I can live with that.
www.amazon.co.uk /Chronicles-Riddick-Escape-Butcher-Xbox/dp/B000289YL6   (2186 words)

  
 GameSpy: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay Review
So it's fair to assume that the developers really wanted to capture the feeling of a vicious, futuristic penal system, and as a result, Riddick needs to rely on his sharp wit, unarmed combat techniques, and stealthy abilities if he is to even begin to hope for an escape.
Riddick will have to rely on the prisoner lifestyle at first, doing "jobs" for other gnarly inmates.
Riddick's stealth mode allows him to silently remain unseen in unlit sections of Butcher Bay (of which there are plenty), which in turn will grant him the ability to sneak up behind prisoners and guards and execute one-hit kills.
xbox.gamespy.com /xbox/the-chronicles-of-riddick/520233p1.html   (783 words)

  
 The Chronicles of Riddick - Moviefone
Riddick Insider Facts on Demand: Scene-specific background facts and trivia are displayed onscreen in real time as you watch the movie
The Chronicles of Riddick Official website for the 2004 movie starring Vin Diesel, Thandie Newton and Judi Dench with trailers, tickets, soundtrack information, downloads,...
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) Besides, the Chronicles of Riddick is an action film.
movies.aol.com /movie/the-chronicles-of-riddick/15728/main   (327 words)

  
 GameSpy: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay - Developer's Cut Review
The balance of the game is spent guiding Riddick through the massive prison colony while trying to keep him safe against the twin threats of the prison guards and the other inmates.
This is the kind of prison where the guards casually murder prisoners if they feel like it, and prison gangs defend their turf and social hierarchy with blood.
The Chronicles of Riddick is primarily a first-person shooter in that you walk around and shoot (or stab, or pummel) things from the first-person perspective.
pc.gamespy.com /pc/the-chronicles-of-riddick-escape-from-butcher-bay/572714p1.html   (788 words)

  
 Chronicles of Riddick
Riddick (Diesel, A Man Apart, XXX) is still a wanted man, and bounty hunter Toombs (Nick Chinlund, Tears of the Sun, Below) is currently hot on his trail.
Riddick is a Furion, an old race of cantankerous jerks, yet still gets roped into helping a planet stop the Necromangers.
Twohy has Riddick speak little, but when he does, it is either too important-sounding or a joke.
www.haro-online.com /movies/chronicles_of_riddick.html   (533 words)

  
 IGN: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay - Developer's Cut Review
Which is exactly why The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay was so well received on the Xbox and has now been transferred over to the PC in good style and with new content.
Put simply, Riddick is a first-person shooter that blends equal parts blasting, hand-to-hand combat, stealth attacks, and even some platforming into the mix.
Riddick already looked good on the Xbox, but the clarity of higher resolution brings a much more detailed and crisp experience to gamers.
pc.ign.com /articles/573/573228p1.html   (1129 words)

  
 Star Seeker Movies: "The Chronicles of Riddick" (2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Chronicles of Riddick portrays Riddick (Vin Diesel) in the 26th century as being caught up in a galactic war featuring Lord Marshal (Colm Feore), the leader of a sect waging the so-called 10th Crusade.
Aiding Riddick is an Ambassador of the "Elemental" race named Aereon (Judi Dench), who helps Riddick to learn the secrets of his origin.
Riddick, portrayed as an unsavory but ultimately heroic character in Pitch Black, is retooled as someone audiences can root for as he challenges the forces of darkness.
www.starseeker.com /films/chronicl.htm   (666 words)

  
 The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay - MobyGames
You are Richard B. Riddick, a convicted criminal with a record as long as War and Peace.
The game is a prequel to the 1999 film Pitch Black, which first introduced Vin Diesel as Richard Riddick, the anti-hero.
The Chronicles of Riddick is a game best appreciated with no expectation.
www.mobygames.com /game/chronicles-of-riddick-escape-from-butcher-bay   (389 words)

  
 IGN: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay Review
Which is exactly why The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay has summer sleeper hit written all over it.
While the lack of a multiplayer option is sorely missed (and VU Games should have known better), the meaty single-player missions are wildly varied and surprising, exhilarating and entertaining, culminating into a must-have first-person shooter Xbox experience.
The walls are covered with graffiti, the cells are minimalist, with a toilet, a bed and a sink, and in general, the more you progress, the harsher and uglier the prison becomes.
xbox.ign.com /articles/519/519763p1.html   (616 words)

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