10 Video Games You Didn't Realise Are 10 Years Old

5. Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay

It's rare that a series of ongoing games manages to be better than its filmic counterpart, but both 2004's Escape from Butcher Bay and Assault on Dark Athena in 2009 easily trump the half-good half-godawful Chronicles of Riddick movie, as well as giving last year's 'Riddick' a run for its money in the entertainment stakes too. Why, you ask? Well how about the fact they have one of the most perfect first-person melee systems ever put to game, along with a stealth system that sees you get all Predator on a series of guards and violent inmates? As was becoming increasingly popular in first-person gaming, developers were realising certain actions just kind of sucked when done in this sort of view, therefore titles like Riddick or Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas started to swing the camera out away from you when doing things such as climbing ladders or shimmying along ledges. Combined with developer Starbreeze's incredible talents and Vin Diesel's more-badass-then-a-derriere-in-lockup delivery, it all came together to provide the best realisation of his gritty world of space-convicts and throat-shredding aliens so far. All that, and it actually told you how Riddick received his ability to see in the dark too, which was the only thing people actually wanted to know from the films in the first place.