Peter Jackson's King Kong
by UBI Soft
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Product Summary
Brand: UBI SoftRelease Date: 2005-11-23
Platform: Xbox
Model: XBUBI 008888512813
Publisher: UBI Soft
Product features:
- Survive as Jack in a world crawling with predators and live the legend as Kong
- Use weapons, traps, and your team wisely to survive in first-person as Jack
- Break jaws, slam enemies, and throw massive objects in Kong's colossal third-person battles
Video Game Reviews of Peter Jackson's King Kong
Customer Review: A THRILLING, NON-STOP, ACTION-PACKED, ROLLER COASTER RIDE! 9 OUT OF 10
Summary: 5 Stars
It's nice to see that not only can Peter Jackson make movies, he's also good at collaborating the making of the game based on the movie. I feel that this game didn't get the amount of sales it deserved. It sold respectably, but it could have been so much more in sales. If you passed up buying this game it's understandable why you'd do so. You probably thought it was going to be a game of shoddy combat, ugly graphics, asinine platforming, boring collecting challenges, and no voice actors from the movie. If you thought this, you are wrong in every category.
WHAT THE GAME IS: It's basically a first-person shooter mixed into an adventure/survival setting. When a film crew and ship crew members travel to an island called Skull Island, the actress for the movie gets kidnapped by savages and is offered as a gift to a giant ape known as Kong. You play the role of Jack, the writer for the script for Carl Denham's movie. You must go rescue Ann, kill numerous beasts with weapons like a Luger, a tommy gun, a sniper rifle, spears, and spears with fire on the tip. There are even some scenes where you play as Kong, which is a really nice bonus.
GRAPHICS: For a game that came out in 2005, this doesn't look that bad, even to this day it looks decent. However I did notice a few animation stutters in character movements.
MUSIC: The music is absolutely fantastic, and captures everything that made the movie's music perfectly. It sets the mood, and it sets the suspenseful, terrifying scenes that really get the heart pumping like crazy.
SOUNDS: Shooting, dinosaurs roaring, little bugs squeaking, bigger bugs squeaking, great acting from the actual actors in the movie, bushes being set on fire, and King Kong's roar.
GAMEPLAY: This game is absolute thrill-ride to play, it never gets boring. The shooting mechanics work great and spear throwing works just like shooting a gun. King Kong is a little difficult to control sometimes during some of his scenes and the camera during those scenes can be a little wonky, but you get used to it. Whether it be a shooting scene, on-rails sequence, or a puzzle, this game doesn't stop delivering those hair-raising, heart-pumping, and adrenaline rush scenes. The encounter with the T-Rexes are absolutely terrifying, and you will probably throw out more than a few "HOLY S***!" remarks during these encounters (Think Jurassic Park-type encounters, only you're right there) and desperately spraying bullets and throwing spears as fast as you can to fend them off. King Kong has an impressive selection of moves at his disposal, which really comes in handy during those encounters with T-Rexes (Breaking jaws in this game is so much fun). This game does have you do protection missions where you have to fend off dinosaurs (Namely T-Rexes) while your team members open gates, and there will be some cases in which you will fail and you watch as your team members gets chomped by a T-Rex. These frustrating scenes are rare luckily, and this game dishes its thrills out like you wouldn't believe. Buy it immediately, especially if you haven't a good adrenaline rush from a game in a while.
OVERALL: While this game isn't perfect, it nearly is because of how much of thrilling adventure it is. You will not be able to put down your controller and you won't want it to end, ever. This is one of the best adventure games I've played in a long time. This is also perhaps one of the best licensed games ever. It is a superb adventure that feels somewhat short, but this game deserved more in sales. Oh, and by the way, sniper rifles and spears are your best friends on the game. Use those most of the time because sniper rifles have a lot more ammo that's easy to locate and spears are unlimited.
THE GOOD: Non-stop thrill ride, decent graphics, sublime music, King Kong scenes are awesome, combat it great, good puzzles, actual actors from the movie, great shooting mechanics, great spear-throwing mechanics, and you will never want this adventure to end.
THE BAD: Animation stutters, camera can be jittery during King Kong scenes, game feels a little short.
Description of Peter Jackson's King Kong
Based on Peter Jackson's remake of the classic ape epic, Ubisoft publishes King KongAll Games
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