The Chronicles of Riddick series
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
Escape from Butcher Bay is set in the futuristic science fiction universe of the Chronicles of Riddick franchise, and is a prequel to the film Pitch Black. The game takes place inside Butcher Bay, a…
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay is an adventure developed by Starbreeze Studios, released 1 June 2004 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox and Mac. The main story takes about 14 hrs to finish.
What The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay is
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay is an adventure game developed by Starbreeze Studios and released in 2004. It was published by Sierra Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Starbreeze Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game's protagonist is Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel), a murderer recently confined in Butcher Bay. Riddick is resourceful, and seeks to break out of the prison by any means necessary. His capturer is the bounty hunter William J. Johns (Cole Hauser); the two have had previous encounters.[6] Butcher Bay's warden is a man named Hoxie (Dwight Schultz), while Abbott (Xzibit) is a prison guard disliked by the inmates. The inmate Pope Joe (Willis Burks II) is an insane old man, who lives in the sewer tunnels beneath the prison.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Chronicles of Riddick series
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay is the first of 3 entries we hold in the The Chronicles of Riddick series. The next entry was The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena in 2009. Its critic score of 89 is 22 points above the series average of 67. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
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How it was received
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay holds a critic score of 89 out of 100. That places it above 91% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 87, across 164 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 14 hrs.
What it launched against
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay launched on 1 June 2004, within three weeks of Thief 3: Deadly Shadows, Thief: Deadly Shadows, Silent Hill 4: The Room and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Thief 3: Deadly Shadows, Thief: Deadly Shadows, Silent Hill 4: The Room, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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