10 Video Game Exclusives You NEVER Got Over Not Playing
6. The Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay - Xbox & PC
Just as television and film adaptations of video games are notoriously awful (save for The Last of Us, Fallout, Super Mario Bros., and Sonic the Hedgehog), so are video game translations of movies and TV shows.
That said, there have been several exceptions to the rule, with a quintessential one being 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (for Windows and the original Xbox).
Like many tie-in titles, games were sceptical about it being anything more than a mediocre cash grab to capitalise on the successes of theatrical duo Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick. When it arrived alongside that cinematic sequel, however, players discovered that it was great.
In fact, it drew favorable comparisons to pop culture gems such as Far Cry, Splinter Cell, The Great Escape, and Escape from Alcatraz. Plus, its Metacritic scores are in the 80s (which is much higher than its movie counterparts).
It’s sad, then, that Escape from Butcher Bay has been forgotten in the current gaming landscape, with its pack-in inclusion alongside 2009’s Assault on Dark Athena serving as its swan song since neither is backwards compatible on newer Xbox consoles or sold digitally on the Microsoft or PlayStation storefronts.