I just got the June issue of the Official Xbox Magazine with Halo 2 on the cover, and it has Both The Cronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, and Midway's upcomming game Psi-Ops: The Midgate Conspiracy. Cronicles of Riddick isn't that great in my oppinion. The graphics are pretty nice. It's kind of has the look and feel of the mercinaries part of Slinter Cell: Pandora Tommorrow, but not as polished or clear. Also even though it is a first person game, I heard there isn't going to be any multiplayer or online.

Psi-Ops on the other hand is quit good. Pretty unique. The controls and character response is really similar to Midways recently released game The Suffering. The game is pretty polished, and looks pretty good. They basically give you all the abilities when you start off, which it says you won't start off with in the final game, but rather be able to learn them. You can use you telakanesis move to pick up boxs, canister, enimies, etc. and throw them. You can even pull locker doors right off there hinges. You can aslo drain there psi energy to replenish your own after you killed enimies. You can also go into a kind of psi-look when you go into a room. What you doo is it's simalar to the overview of Prince of Persia, but your mind can go searching around the room and scout out the enemies, and you can posses enimies too by doing this(although i haven't figured out how to yet). But all of this does drain you psi meter.


Just thought I'd give my take on the preview builts since both games are comming out really soon Riddick is out next week I believe, and Psi-Ops is out in the next month or so. Just giving a heads up to people. I'll try and post more after I get a better feel for the demos.