Is The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay available again?

Nothin · 9 Dec 2019 at 14:18

Hello,

Had a bit of a Riddick film marathon over the weekend and got the itch to play The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay again.
Could anyone please tell me if it's available to buy electronically anywhere?
From what I can find on the internet only old 2nd hand copies are available.
I'm pretty sure I've still got a physical copy of it in my lockup, just don't fancy wading through all my hoarded crap to find it.

Cheers,

Nothin · 9 Dec 2019 at 14:40

ttaskmaster said:
Does GoG not have it? Pretty sure that's where I got mine... Can't check now, as I'm at work and it's blocked.

Edit: No, GoG and every other retailer were all forced to remove Dark Athena (which included EfBB) from their catalogues due to licencing issues...

Ah, thanks for the reply yeah had a look at all the main online stores and it seemed to have been pulled maybe a couple of years ago.
Was just asking in case I overlooked somewhere.

Cheers,

Nothin · 10 Dec 2019 at 12:51

ic1male said:
Does it even work now? I thought that Tages DRM botched it up.

The GOG version would've been ideal as I imagine it would have to have all DRM removed.
Though I still have an XP machine I could dust off which might be more compatible with the original physical media version.

Nothin · 10 Dec 2019 at 16:38

Did a quick search and although it seems that according to the courts it should be legal, I'm pretty sure none of the big distribution platforms have any official mechanism for selling your personal game inventory.

Nothin · 11 Dec 2019 at 19:09

m4cc45 said:
It's actually one of those games that actually captures the film brilliantly and the voice over via Vin Diesel is excellent.

Yeah completely agree, I remember getting totally immersed in it, back when I could get totally immersed in a game.
Graphically one thing that stood out for me at the time was the use of Environmental Bump Mapping, it was the first game I noticed how much it made all the surfaces look like they had 3 dimensional texture.

Dark Athena was ok but had a bit more of a standard corridor shooter feel to me, probably due to the space ship setting.