The first Chronicles of riddick game was highly received by reviews and fans, but what was more interesting is the game received little to no marketing. The game sold by word of month when it was launched. The company blames no marketing on the publishers part, but hope now that Atari will see what they have and will market the game.

Vin Diesel's game production company Tigon Studios and developer Starbreeze are hoping that Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena manages to outsell the first Riddick title.

2004's Chronicles of Riddick on Xbox was well received by critics, but its high review scores weren't matched sales-wise.


That was because nobody was interested in the shiny headed actor at the time, according to Tigon boss Ian Stevens.

"The landscape has changed a little bit for us. Pre-orders for Riddick were the hardest I've ever had to deal with. Because nobody cared about Vin Diesel, nobody thought a game attached to a movie - that didn't really have any buzz surrounding it anyway - was really going to be that good," he told CVG in a recent interview.

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