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I wear my sunglasses at night
so I can
so I can
Kill my enemies silently in the dark


The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, the winner of the Final Round of this year’s Battle of the Games and a brutal adrenaline-pumped Sci-Fi FPS, is available right now on GOG.com with a 60% discount until Friday, July 13 at 8:59 AM EDT.

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is a dynamic first-person shooter set in a gritty sci-fi universe. The game offers the dark pleasure of becoming Riddick, an ironfisted, relentless, and cold-blooded criminal, who will not hesitate to use his hand-to-hand combat skills, stealth ability, and excessive firepower to escape mercenary ship Dark Athena. The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is basically two games in one: the graphically enhanced and polished original Riddick game: Escape from The Butcher’s Bay and Assault on Dark Athena, which continues the story of your favorite eye-shining antihero.

Boasting a full-flavored mix of action, stealth, and adventure with excellent voice acting by Michelle Forbes, Lance Henrikssen, and fan-favorite Vin Diesel, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is now available on GOG.com for $5.99.

Multiplayer notice: Due to issues beyond our control, multiplayer is not functional.
i'm pleased with the overall game but it is alilltle hurky jerky i''m trying to adjust for it.
it does make it hard to move around in the game, the action is choppy.
wonder if anyone has had the same proplem? i'm running it on a new computer with windows 7

i may have an answer for downloading proplems ,just download the ugraded version of the gog downloader and it seems to run perfectly. it worked good on my new computer but i'm not sure exactly how upgrade it on an older computer and windows.

even with the herky jerky problems i'm having it still is a great game sort of reminds me of the old duke nukem 3d game of years past.

good gaming!!!
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KainDrake: Why wasn't the one on steam working? :/
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Aindo: I have a high end rig yet the game would not change to a higher resolution. I searched for solutions but anything I found was not certain to work for everyone. Unfortunately I was one of the people the solutions would not work for.

There are lots of people with the same or similar issues with the game on the steam forum. Just hoping that this version will work (not downloaded it yet).
But you were able to play it though, right?
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Aindo: I have a high end rig yet the game would not change to a higher resolution. I searched for solutions but anything I found was not certain to work for everyone. Unfortunately I was one of the people the solutions would not work for.

There are lots of people with the same or similar issues with the game on the steam forum. Just hoping that this version will work (not downloaded it yet).
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KainDrake: But you were able to play it though, right?
Technically it could be played, yes. However I want to experience the game to the full and as it turns out the GOG version is exactly the same. I can't play this on max settings as I can any other game. Best I can get from this game is a resolution of 1280x760 when 1920x1080 is my monitors native resolution.
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KainDrake: But you were able to play it though, right?
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Aindo: Technically it could be played, yes. However I want to experience the game to the full and as it turns out the GOG version is exactly the same. I can't play this on max settings as I can any other game. Best I can get from this game is a resolution of 1280x760 when 1920x1080 is my monitors native resolution.
Okay. Worried me is I thought you meant it couldn't be played at all. Well, at least you can still play it. :)
I bought EfBB in a cardboard box, and the commentary is a mixed blessing. There's something like an hour of various ramblings, really cool stuff. Among other tidbits: if you comment on the uniform stylings and use the word Nazi, everyone screams at you ("now we can't sell this in Germany, stupid!"), heavy hints that the movie was crappy, plotless and ugly while the game is internally consistent and looks cool because, um, independent game houses are the exact opposite of Hollywood; reports of a storm of protest over percieved slurs against homosexuals digressing into how the character names were chosen (grep phone books of world's largest cities; top fifty names get included) which ends with one developer remarking "I mean, I'M gay, and I didn't notice. I think these people are strange"; bizarre stories about the uniformly easygoing voice actors and why you can't recognize one of the guards as Bender from Futurama (roaring chest infection and fever, but he insisted the show must go on); and lots more.

The bad news is that the commentaries are triggered by walking through or even touching these spinning Starbreeze medallions about a meter high, which are planted in every spot where it's suicide to avoid them, and generally when you're about to get into a hard scrap which you can't hear because a couple of Scandanavians are nattering very loudly about a throwaway joke one convict is making to another and which you can't actually hear.

Unless you're a games industry person or a Hollywood turd, the commentaries are nothing to lose sleep about.
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OneNight: I bought EfBB in a cardboard box, and the commentary is a mixed blessing. [...] and which you can't actually hear.

Unless you're a games industry person or a Hollywood turd, the commentaries are nothing to lose sleep about.
"a Hollywood turd", oh man...

Well, thanks for the info OneNight. I just like to get the complete content, and if I get to like or love the game after playing then I proceed to explore the extra material, and in this case the commentary would be worth exploring.
I'm a cinema buff, the first movie Pitch Black was decent, not goooood, but decent.
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taczillabr: Thanks for the information, F4LL0UT.
I had no idea it was a pre-order DLC back in the day, if it is such a small patch I wonder why GOG does not include that commentary (and maybe the maps).
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F4LL0UT: My guess is that they weren't even aware of its existence. I'm a big fan and hadn't heard of those. Would be great if GOG included this stuff via update.

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taczillabr: About Halo trilogy, I was talking not about the original versions, but the recent re-releases, called Anniversary editions. Since those are recent I doubt much effort is needed for Microsoft to port them over to PC, other than the multiplayer aspect. Heck I would pay to pay the singleplayer only of the re-releases, on PC. ;)
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F4LL0UT: Doesn't matter which releases you're talking about - after the Halo 2 fail I doubt Microsoft is ever gonna consider porting any Halo game to the PC again, no matter how small the effort might be.

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taczillabr: Microsoft recently released Fable 1 on PC, so that's why I have a bit of a hope for the Halo trilogy.
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F4LL0UT: Uhm, actually Fable 1 was already released on PC in 2005 titled "Fable: The Lost Chapters" - that's definitely not "recently". ;) They totally skipped Fable 2 though and it doesn't seem that this one is ever going to get ported to PC (while for some reason Fable 3 got a port again... what non-sense...).
Fable 1 was a great port. Take note, game developers.
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taczillabr: "a Hollywood turd", oh man...

Well, thanks for the info OneNight. I just like to get the complete content, and if I get to like or love the game after playing then I proceed to explore the extra material, and in this case the commentary would be worth exploring.
I'm a cinema buff, the first movie Pitch Black was decent, not goooood, but decent.
Well, you know, er, yeah. Turd is entirely fair for the movie industry people who metabolise fresh fruit and home made cookies into chunky logs of fail and despair. If you knew Winona Ryder's character was a robot before the lights went down for "Alien Resurrection" because you read Variety and Fangoria compulsively, you're more of a Hollywood birdwatcher, which isn't anything to be ashamed of.

If that sample of commentary left you hungry for more, you definitely need to get the full dose. The problem is that you start the game with commentary or without, and there's no changing in mid campaign. Unless you've beaten the game at least twice, you'll eventually snap and shout "Sha cho filfy hole!" as you try to sneak from cover to cover with the (seriously) loud chatting overwhelming your environmental clues.