Chonicles of Riddick on Steam - £3.75

m4cc45 said:
Already got it from a previous sale. It's a fantastic price for two games. I have completed them both and they're both superb - the remake was an excellent idea to revamp a brilliant FPS game that nobody had really played.

I have to agree with other people in this post - Butchers Bay is one of the best FPSs of all time.


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I second that.
Both excellent games. Just purchased.
 
I thought I was free of giving Steam my money for a little while too but I have wanted to play this for ages. At this rate I will spend the next 6 months ignoring new games so I can get through my Steam Sale list :)
 
Been waiting for this for ages! Butcher Bay is an absolutely brilliant game, i'd go as far as to say the best movie-to-game adaptation. This is a must play imo. Bought.
 
dcsarge said:
I thought I was free of giving Steam my money for a little while too but I have wanted to play this for ages. At this rate I will spend the next 6 months ignoring new games so I can get through my Steam Sale list :)
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Thats the best thing about these sales - by the time you get around to the new games they will all have been on sale for £3 :D

Probably the only games I would be tempted to get new will be Mass Effect 3 and the new Elder Scrolls - still might be tempted for a sale on those though :p
 
mithrandir said:
What's with the Tage's notice? Doe it mean 3 activations only on this game and no reclaim?
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In theory, you get 3 activations, but then 30 days after the last one your activations get reset.
In practice, that may not happen. It didn't for me. I can't play it, and I've been in touch with steam and tages both of whom referred me to atari, and atari never responded.
 
MeMeMeMe said:
In theory, you get 3 activations, but then 30 days after the last one your activations get reset.
In practice, that may not happen. It didn't for me. I can't play it, and I've been in touch with steam and tages both of whom referred me to atari, and atari never responded.
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This is another reason I won't buy games with limited activations - you're sometimes given the run-around between the publisher, developer and DRM supplier if you're unable to activate your game.
 
Ravenger said:
This is another reason I won't buy games with limited activations - you're sometimes given the run-around between the publisher, developer and DRM supplier if you're unable to activate your game.
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Was probably going to get this until I read about the DRM. Steam is DRM enough...
 
ic1male said:
I've tried with Butcher Bay so far. It works but the controls on-screen are always for keyboard.
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ahh that sounds reassuring then, were all the controls already mapped to controller buttons or are some missing?
if you could report back when/if you get chance to play the other game, itd be highly appreciated :cool:
 
Semiskimmed said:
ahh that sounds reassuring then, were all the controls already mapped to controller buttons or are some missing?
if you could report back when/if you get chance to play the other game, itd be highly appreciated :cool:
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Nope, doesn't work in Dark Athena either. No need to map any buttons, it's all done but the only one I couldn't get to work on the gamepad was pressing F1 for the help screens.
 
Bought, thanks :) They really should advertise the fact that DA includes Butcher Bay :p I almost didn't buy it...
 
Played a few hours of this, not a bad hybrid of FPS/Stealth/Melee.
In terms of storyline / NPC interaction there is much less than I remember from Butcher Bay.

I'd imagine the stealth sections are a bit too basic/contrived/on-rails for hardcore stealth-'em-upers but for casual players like me it is about right. You dodge around in the shadows, avoid spotlights, and then sneak up behind people with a bit of jumping/climbing thrown in. Then you've got a few shooty bits, I'm rather partial to the mech sections even though they are a bit too easy.

"Jack of all trades, master of none" is a phrase that springs to mind, but in this case much like a pack of cards, a Jack isn't too shabby. It's a sort of easy-going game that lets you do a bit of everything, you know, a bit like a starter platter in an American-style restaurant. Not the sort of thing that you would go out of your way for but once you start it fills a hole. If you haven't played BB then the closest recent game to it is probably Batman:AA

Graphically the style is very similar to BB / Doom3, looks decent although I do get flickering model textures on NPCs sometimes. Performance wise it is hard to fault, running at 90-150fps on my GTX280.

One word of warning though, it seems to limit the number of resolutions available in the menu to about 15. This meant that I could only choose up to 1280x768 or so. So if your graphics driver has a bunch of resolutions defined you may have to modify it and reinstall the driver (for Nvidia this means nvdisp.inf removing a bunch of resolutions you don't want like laptop / weird aspects etc)
 
MeMeMeMe said:
In theory, you get 3 activations, but then 30 days after the last one your activations get reset.
In practice, that may not happen. It didn't for me. I can't play it, and I've been in touch with steam and tages both of whom referred me to atari, and atari never responded.
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Thanks for the info.
 
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