Somehow managing to make Vin Diesel appealing, the first-person shooter-brawler-stealth-adventure-mech combat extravaganza was not only a pot pourri of gaming styles but blended them to stunning effect, with a level of technical trickery that truly showed the Xbox off in the best possible light. Having already impressed many with the largely ignored Enclave, Starbreeze still managed to catch most of us off guard when Riddick burst out of nowhere in mid 2004 to universal acclaim.

Vivendi-Universal/Starbreeze, Gamepage, 16:9 and 480p support The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay

Eventually, though, the game comes into its own, and denying poor 360 owning folk the chance to see this game running on their fine console would be a great shame. Admittedly, this version doesn't come across as particularly accessible to being with, throwing players in at the deep end and forcing much trudging around labyrinthine street asking endless questions. It didn't sell particularly well, so it's possibly not a huge surprise that nearly five years on we're still waiting for SEGA to move the epic Shenmue story on.

But little did he know that AM2's 'mind blowing' achievement would eventually be released onto the Xbox with such a muted fanfare at a time when SEGA's presence in Europe was skeletal at best. Back when Tom was about 10, he reckoned that Shenmue 2 was 'probably the best swansong the Dreamcast could hope for'.

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