Chronicles of Riddick Could Have Been "Devil May Cry Ripoff"

Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay. What a game that ended up being. But the result could have been very different, had developer Starbreeze simply "done what we were told to do." In fact, the game could have been a "third-person Devil May Cry rip-off."

The revelations come from producer Ian Stevens, who told OXM that "we were being told constantly not to do what we were doing, and we did it anyway. Truthfully, it was absolute piracy." It's a good job that Starbreeze held its ground - the game was released in 2004 to massive critical acclaim.

"It could have blown up in our face and we could have made a horrible game and all been fired - that was as much a possibility as what actually happened," Stevens added, noting that Vin Diesel's video game outfit Tigron Studios had a fair part to play in the project's development success.

"But it was a time when a lot of us were just very tired of the circumstances involved in this type of opportunity, and we felt like we really had to push and do something that was going to satisfy us and make a good game. So we killed ourselves to go in that direction."