Platform: Xbox 360
Store Page: No.
Price I Paid: £2.95 (Too much for this...)
Ugh, this game. I'm gonna be upfront about it, it's bad. I picked this up because the Gamerscore was apparently easy if you suffered through the game, which it is. 100G per mission is pretty good. Do I really have to talk about the game? Fine.
The graphics are horrific, I know the console was new and everything at the time but the graphics looked bad all the way back then too. There's a weird system where you can have people throw guns at you when you're out of ammo, this basically means you have a walking armoury for the first portion of your mission, you will then rely on sticks and fire to get you through the missions. There's a thing for burning bushes until it opens a door in this game, which, is uhm, I don't even know.
Now, obviously the selling point of this game was that you would be able to play as King Kong, not Jack or Rose or whatever their name is. So, how is it playing as King Kong? Before I tell you, I think I should show you some of the reviews this game got, somehow.
Metacritic: 80/100
Gamerankings: 81%
Eurogamer: 8/10
How did a movie tie in game, with one of the down right worst casts, get positive reviews from Metacritic? I honestly do not understand.
But, playing as King Kong. I remember way back playing this on a PS2 when it first came out and I was honestly unimpressed with playing as Kong. It's still really unimpressive. It's clunky and the graphics are bad, even for it's time. Most good games, like the Mario series on GameCube still (in my opinion) have some fantastic graphics that stand up today. Of course, you shouldn't base a good game on the graphics but I thought I'd make a special note of this because they are in fact awful.
If you took the King Kong missions out of this game then you could just as easily have some sort of weird Call of Duty esc. setting with poor voice acting, so Call of Duty Ghosts on an Island basically.
It's clunky, badly made, poor voice acting and doesn't tie in with the movie, I don't remember floating bats in either versions of the King Kong Movie. If it wasn't for the easy amount of achievements then this game would get a flat out zero and the fact they tried something with the weapon throwing system between characters was decent enough I suppose, it was worth a try.
Peter Jackson's King Kong the Official Game of the Movie (which is a mouthful) gets a 2/10
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