Riddick Remake Packs Entirely New Sequel

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While we've known for a while that Starbreeze's The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena would be an enhanced remake of the previous Riddick game with new content, it turns out that the new content amounts to a 10-hour single-player sequel.

The new campaign packs "new game mechanics, full-game production values ... the works," according to Joystiq, with Big Download clarifying that the campaign is a "direct sequel" to the original and is immediately accessible upon booting the game.

The scope of the new campaign stems from the first-person shooter's recent publisher-related delay. After the game was dropped by ex-publisher Sierra, Atari picked the game up, a move that allowed for more than nine months of additional work.

Along with the new campaign, Athena will include a new multiplayer mode and an enhanced version of Starbreeze's 2004 release The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (PC, Xbox). Expect Dark Athena to hit PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in spring 2009.

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    December 3, 2008 8:33 AM

    OMG... Day 1 purchase. I loved the original and it will be great to go through that and it's sequel again.

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      December 3, 2008 9:52 AM

      yep, gonna be awesome!

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      December 3, 2008 10:05 AM

      Yeah. Spotted the old sequences, but the new graphics are lovely. Worth it even for the new story part.

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      December 3, 2008 10:37 AM

      Totally agreed

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