The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay is a first-person action/stealth video game developed by Starbreeze Studios and published by Vivendi Games. Released for the Xbox and Windows in 2004, the game is a tie-in prequel to the futuristic science fiction film The Chronicles of Riddick. Actor Vin Diesel—who was involved in the game’s development—reprises his role as that film’s protagonist, Richard B. Riddick.
The game follows Riddick, a psychopathic murderer, as he attempts to escape from a maximum-security prison called Butcher Bay. Escape from Butcher Bay’s designers focused on exploring Riddick’s character in a prison break setting to differentiate the game from The Chronicles of Riddick. Influence was taken from the film Escape from Alcatraz, and from video games such as Half-Life and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell.
Escape from Butcher Bay was praised by critics, who lauded its graphics and its implementation of stealth, action and adventure elements. However, they commonly lamented its brevity and lack of multiplayer components. An enhanced remake of the game, included in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, was released in 2009.
Source: Wikipedia, Game’s homepage
Minimum system requirements
CPU: Pentium 4 or AMD 1.8GHz Processor
RAM: 256MB RAM
Video Card: ATI Radeon® 8500 or NVIDIA® GeForce 3 and above – except GeForce 4 MX
DX: DirectX 9.0
Recommended system requirements
CPU: Pentium 4 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2500+ or equivalent
RAM: 512MB RAM
Video Card: ATI Radeon(R) 9700 or NVIDIA(R) GeForce(TM) FX 5900 or better.
