04/05/09: Previously On Prison Break...

As any of you who have read my last blog, I am spending far too much time play The Chronicles Of Riddick: Assult On Dark Athena however, if you hadn't read it I may have just spoiled a small section of it for you.  Anyway, as you all know Assult On Dark Athena comes with a remade, hi-def-afied version of everyone's favourite anti-hero's previous adventure, Escape From Buthcher Bay.  You are most likely aware of this due to Atari's constant premoting of it.

"By buying Assult On Dark Athena, you are getting a remade Escape From Butcher Bay for free!"

But is this just a ploy to get you to buy a new game with a five year-old game sell-o-taped onto it.  The short answer is yes.  The long answer is yes, but however...

With the last iteration of consoles I owned a GameCube, my brother a PS2, and the family computer was far from being a gaming powerhouse.  So when Escape From Butcher Bay came out in 2004 I was seriously considering buying an Xbox just to play it, well that and Psychonauts.  In the end I ended up missing out on Escape From Butcher Bay, and being a huge fan of the film Pitch Black I was rather disappionted, especially when I read how good a game it was.  So imagine my glee when I read I had a second chance to play it.

And you know what, it was worth the wait.  I like to think of myself as a rather patient person, and waiting the last 5 years has only made my time with Escape From Butcher Bay all the sweater.  It has been one of only a few games, such as Fallout 3, to completely immerse me in a world that I barely left until I completed the game.  So what may seem like an underhanded marketing tactic is more like a second chance to play a quality game.

- Mark (ZS).