Lot's of fun and way better than the new movie! I picked this game up because of the great reviews and I was in the mood for a first person game, but I didn't know what to expect having never seen the first Riddick movie. After finishing the game, I can say my expectations were exceeded, this was a great game and a lot of fun to play. I read complaints about the game length - let me say it was long enough for me; taking me over 1 month to finish due on my busy schedule. Also I'm somebody who likes to explore everything in the game world and really go slowly and take my time (as much as you could with this fast paced game), so I probably spent about 20hrs playing through in total, plus another hour going through all the unlockable items, none of them really worth anything special but fun to go through. I feel I definitely got my money's worth, and the game ended just where it should have before it got repetitive. I would have given it a higher value if they would have used LIVE to allow for possible future downloads, the Live implementation they used seems to be pretty useless. The story is told with wonderful graphics and sound that really bring the game world alive. Highly recommended! (I wish I could say the same about the new movie - I saw it about 2 weeks into playing the game and was really disappointed with the movie after playing the wonderful game)
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