The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay is the rarest kind of mid-'00s licensed game – one that doesn't just do justice to its source material, but exceeds it. The FPS got rave reviews at launch, and it's broadly regarded as one of the original Xbox's greatest hidden gems, but you'd be forgiven if it's flown under your radar. After all, it was so underground that not even the game's own developers heard about it being cancelled deep into development.
According to art director Jens Matthies, speaking in a new Noclip documentary, roughly "two-thirds" of the way into development at Starbreeze Studios "the game got cancelled. But our publisher guy didn't tell us about it. We kept going!"
