What’s up people. For Black History Month, we’ve decided to cull together a list of the Top 20 Black Characters in Gaming. Counting down from 20, we’ll be hitting you with a new one each week day until we get to number 1. Let’s get to it:

#12 on TGH’z Top Black Video Game Characters list goes to Riddick The Chronicles of Riddick Escape from Butcher Bay

Yes Sir! The Eye Shines! We just keep dropping sleeper hits on ya’ll. Shame on you if you haven’t played these games. I know you’re saying… wait a minute! Riddick isn’t Black. Well technically he is. He’s biracial. You know how that goes, if you are 1% then you are black…

I digress. Coming out of no-where Starbreeze studios and Tigon founded, or I should say funded, by Vin Diesel himself, brought he noise with this original Xbox exclusive title. This game really pushed the system in terms of the graphics that it boasted. Basically a first person “shooter”, Escape from Butcher Bay rises to the top with it’s excellent story telling and gameplay. Laying the groundwork for modern first person “hand to hand” fighting. This game was really ahead of its time, not to mention that you could play either run n’ gun or stealthy snapping necks.

Another cool for its time thing, was they made sure that they milked the main character. For a first person game, you definitely saw Vin’s mug plenty of times. We must say that the voice acting is superb ad Vin gives this character a sense of real life. Also your boy X to tha Z Xzibit makes an appearance in this game and he’s also believable.

This game put all the fanboys into a frenzy leading up to the second movie. The movie was a complete and utter failure when compared to the game. Butcher Bay showed you why Riddick was such a bad ass and you really got to see the man in action. While The Chronicles movie was a quasi Matrix meets Conan farse… Let’s hope that they make another game… Oh wait! They are! Due out next month will be an updated version of Butcher Bay called The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena for the XBOX360 and Playstation 3, it will also feature an entire new story that picks up right after. The devs are giving the users the option to just skip through to the new stuff. DON’T DO IT! MAKE SURE YOU. PLAY. THIS. GAME!!!

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