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Awesome game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

You know the plot, so I'm not going there. for 70% of the game, you play as Jack Driscoll, in which you're job is not to save the day, but leave Skull Island alive with grossly oversized raptors, giant flying rats, and millipedes the size of anacondas running around. For the other 30% of the game, you play as Kong, punching out dinosaurs and the aforementioned giant flying rats, which offers no end of fun. Go pick up a copy of the game ASAP. You won't be sorry.

Best Movie Adaptation

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have to say that this is one of the best movie tie-in games that I have played since the Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Let me begin with the good. The graphics for this game are just stellar. The lighting is spectacular and the later temple levels are just breathtaking. I also liked the atmosphere the game created with the music when you are near death, the lack of a targeting reticule, and the lack of a health bar. It helps create that sense that you are stranded on a deserted island with monsters all around you. Which leads me to another point. There are truly moments when you are scared. For example, creatures will creep up on you through tall grasses and get you from behind. The creatures, though, do bring me to only a slight disappointment: the thing where kill something to draw the monster's attention away from doesn't always work. Sometimes there is no point in doing it, especially when there is always spears nearby when you run out of ammo, etc. It's kind of hard to explain but to me, personally, it wasn't that useful. Also the game is short and the controls for Kong can be clunky, but you do get the sense of being a one ton "Prince of Persia." I would also like to see some more open environments as this kind of felt a little claustrophobic. Anyway good game. There should be more like this out there.

REALLY GOOD GAME!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

GREAT GAME , BUT IT GOT CONFUSING SOMETIMES. THE GRAPHICS ARE GREAT AND SO IS THE SOUND AND MUSIC.
overall its a very good game!

Not Bad

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Its a great attempt, my faults towards the game are as follows: it looks terrible on game cube, try looking at it on the computer, it's like two different games. But game wise, the spears you throw become annoying and you spend most of your time praying for a tommy gun so you can blast the Velociraptor gnawing at your leg. Also, playing as Kong, to me, was the damn funnest part of the whole game. Playing as Jack was annoying because you feel weak and helpless against the ancient dinosaurs chewing your head off. So the welcome feeling of immense strength is very satisfying.

Kong's control issue: I think kong has enough moves and is as responsive has he needs to be. I mean come on how fast do you think a 100 foot tall, 1000 lb gorilla is gonna be. I think the controls fit the giant ape perfectly and, i had no problem snapping T-rexes jaws left and right. Plus you can beat your chest and go into matrix style mod, which is so much fun.

However, I have no idea why people rush out like idiots and pay 50 bucks for the game when all you had to do is wait till that idiot decided it wasn't a good enough game for 50 dollars and traded it in so you could buy it for 10 dollars. F@#$%ING MORONs.

The lighting, sound, are as everyone has said, amazing it's just that it seems a little rushed in the game play department. I feel like they could have made more monsters, made the levels feel more free etc... you know where I'm going with this. All the things most gaming companies fall short on last minute due to budget, time, etc... etc... Even though you can replay the game for extras, it doesn't even come close to adding extra points to the overall game rating....the replay value sucks(just a little)

Bottom Line, Rent it or get it used for 10 bucks

Terrific

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game has got to be one of my best for gamecube. There is plenty of amazing levels and adventerous gameplay.I was a little hesitant on buying this game since I bought the ds version and found it to be way to difficult if not impossible to get passed the 2nd level. But once I started playing there was no stopping.Take my word of advice and go treat yourself to one of the best games of the year for gamecube

The Eighth Wonder of the World

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Most of the time, movies do not translate into games very well. This is an exception to that rule. Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong (Widescreen Edition) comes to life in spectacular fashion with this game. Beautifully rendered graphics and fun gameplay make for a wonderful gaming experience.

The game takes place almost exclusively on Skull Island. You play as Jack Driscoll, and for those of you that have not seen the new film, he is now an educated and well respected playwright, not the he man hero first mate of the previous film.

As Jack, you are sometimes alone and sometimes with other characters from the film as you make your way through this hellish island to save Anne from Kong. The left and right shoulder buttons control your weaponry and this can take some time getting use to. But after a while, it becomes second nature.

There is no HUD on this game, so you can't tell by looking at the screen how much life you have left or how many bullets you have. The only ways to tell is by your breathing and heartbeat, which gets faster as you become injured. When the screen goes red and silent, you're dead.

There are a host of weapons to use, but it is realistic in the fact that you have a certain number of bullets and once you're out, you're out until you find another box of weapons that has been air dropped at various points around the island. For the most part, you will be using spears and the bones of dead animals as your weapons. It is important to master using these, because if you don't, you don't stand a chance.

Every few levels, you actually get to play as Kong. This is quite jarring (in a good way), as you now have the power that you lack as Jack. You can attack full force and kill your enemies. Repeatedly pressing X revs you up and gives you a temporary power boost. You must battle dinosaurs (lots of them) all while keeping Anne safe. This is the most fun part of the game and these are the levels that you will most likely go back to replay as each level is available to replay after you finish it.

After the island levels, you are Kong in New York. This is particularly fun as you get to rampage through the city on your way to the Empire State Building. Of course you die at the end, but that's really not the end of the game.

After you beat the game, you then go back through levels that have points available to score. You unlock various extras along the way including the "old movie" mode, where your screen resembles the 1933 film, King Kong (Two-Disc Special Edition). Of particular note is a Peter Jackson interview regarding the making of the new film.

The ultimate unlockable is the alternate ending, which you can unlock after achieving 25000 points. This is fun as you get to save Kong and give him a happy ending.

All in all, this is a great game. I would have liked more levels as Kong, or maybe an option of one or the other, as well as playing as other characters. The game is also rather short for an adventure game. But it has a great replay factor. These are minor quibbles though.

unbeliveable

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS UNBELIVEABLE!!!!
the movie is the 2nd best movie ever made Z(1st being lord of the rings) and this game is great too!!! go buy this game now it is pretty easy but its a fun easy i luv it
probley the best movie game ever ( other good movie games are enter the matrix and spider man 2) but this game is one of my fav games ever!! go buy it now!

Kong is still king

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Peter Jackson's King Kong is an immersive, if somewhat unpolished experience that is way too short. Fans of the film will probably want to check it out, and fans of FPS in general may enjoy it as well.

The has you more or less playing through the events of Peter Jackson's film, with a lot of deviations in order to lengthen the game. You play as Jack Driscoll, the hero, for the majority of the game, as you travel through the atmospheric location of Skull Island, and try your hardest to survive.

No doubt about it, there's a lot of fun to be had there. King Kong's most impressive feat is its ability to immerse you in the world of the game. The fact that there is absolutely no HUD (heads up display; as in Health meters, ammo meters, targeting reticules), greatly adds to this.

The gameplay as Jack Driscoll basically boils down to survival. You are greatly outmatched by the ferocious beasts on the island, and you really have to be on your toes. This leads to some very intense, and often frightening moments, whether your taking cover and shooting your shotgun, sniping from afar, or boldly charging in with your machine gun. There's a good deal of strategy as well, since you'll soon find that you have to conserve your ammo. Spears will become your best friend, and you must learn to use them to your advantage.

When things get tense is when King Kong really takes off. At certain times you simply must run and find cover in a cave while a vicious raptor snaps at you and tries to get inside. But the star moments of the game is when the Tyrannosaurs make there appearance. These are some of the most intense, frightening, and downright impressive scenarios I've seen in a game. Your firepower is not enough to take down a T-rex, and these scenarios usually involve you running for your life, and trying to distract it while your NPC friends open a gate. One good bite, and your gone. Another level has you on a raft, with a T-rex on either side, ready to eat you if you aren't fast enough with your spears. While there are many tense moments, none of them match the sheer rush of avoiding a massive T-rex; they are the crowning achievments of the game.

When the T-rexes finally get their proper beating is when you come in control of King Kong himself. Playing as the big gorilla is somewhat simple and unrefined, but a whole lot of fun. As Kong, you perform some simple platforming by swinging on vines and branches and such, and you battle huge beasts. When you play as Kong, it switches to a third-person view, allowing you to watch the HUD-less action like it's a movie. Combat as Kong unfortunately involves little more than mashing the attack button again and again to bash the T-rexes. You can mix it up a little, such as jumping from a perch and crushing them, but the fact is that the Kong sequences are quite simple. They are a lot of fun though; and it's unfortunate that only 20%-25% of the game is devoted to Kong.

The graphics are very impressive overall. Skull Island is a beatifully designed place, oozing with atmosphere. Lush forests, flowing rivers, ancient stone temples, valleys, swamps, and more await you. The world design is certainly the crown; unfortunately the character models are somewhat unimpressive.

The sound is one of the best aspects of the game. The roar of a T-rex is terrifyingly glorious, and it's only one of the many diverse sounds you'll hear. All of the actors from the film loan there voices to the appropriate characters, and they do an excellent job.

King Kong is definitely worth checking out if you're a fan of the film, or even if you aren't. Sadly the adventure only lasts for 6-7 hours, so you might be better off giving it a rent. But that's up to you; either way, you should give it a try.

The experience: great, the game: mediocre

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If a game should be challenging, putting you into sweatening situations, this almost ain't no game at all. Like when you play a silent Hill game on the easiest difficulty (without puzzles) it is more of an intense journey than anything else. In the extra interview Peter Jackson he said that the game is a survival course on what has to be the most dangerous island on earth. If that is, all of our islands are pieces of cake. It's not dangerous, it might be frightening at times, but not dangerous, actually there were around 3 Situations I had to retry, the rest went smoothly and without any troubles. I should also say that there is only one difficutly, being extremly low.

During the game there are about 5 things you can do: pick up a speer or animal bone and throw against enemies or hit'em with it several times untill it breaks apart. There are harmless animals like fish creatures and butterflies. You can put these on top of you spear/bone and throw it somewhere to distract the enemies. You can put it on fire as well and burn down bushes to get a clear path. You can pick up weapons and ammos and use them, you can sneak as well. You need to find specific pieces of wood to open doors.

All in all, that's extremly few things to do over the course of a 7-hours-game. It's repetion in the purest form. Every level almost consists of executing each "possibility" at least once. Don't play this game if you're out for a killzone-like experience on a Skull Island. It's far from that but the experience still is great. The details are AWESOME, the air is pretty wet and thick, so however you move the lights will move and break as well. If you have a fish attached to the spear, it will want to escape and try to bite you. If you're walking throught deep water, you lower the weapons over your head. Whenever you get the chance to get a wider view of the island, there's some kind of cool orientation to it. A Mountain in the distance gets bigger during the game, so you really feel like being and moving there, although there is not much of a choice which path to take, well, none at all. Meaning it looks bigger than it feels. Also the pace is very fast. There are a LOT of levels in the end, but they're extremly short, sometimes crazy short! The loading times are no problem at all, but you feel a bit like rushing throught the game when it's such a short time between the loading sections. Not a problem as long as you don't want to PATIENTLY ENJOY the game too much. I know that next time I play it I will do it in one course I guess, literally playing the movie in 6 hours. There are some trail-levels, leading you along a path, having you to fight against enemies attacking from everywhere. These levels are the shortest ones. But no wonder: so many things move and happen like a lot of discussions between the characters and stuff. So if a level endures only one minute, that minute will be full of stuff, be it dialogues, scripts, attacks (also scripted attacks animals on animals) or whatever.

A great experience, a much too easy game, and ways too short. It's no wonder as these kind of games are mostly being made for the fans of the movies, not for game freaks. So the difficulty level has to be pretty low to keep nongamers from getting frustrated. In the end you "control" a movie, no more no less. But the story is great, the setting awesome, KingKong a lovable creature like in the movie - no monster at all, just a wild animal.

Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

King Kong is a great game, full of adventure and excitement. It van be confusing sometimes, but if you're patient, you'll find a solutin to your problem. The screen can be very dark at times: the creatures are a dark gray or black, the rock is dark gray or black, you are usually in a cave so there is little light, the plants are ususlly darki red or green, and your weapons is gray or brown(if your using a spear. So it can be very difficult to see. You'd think that carrying a torch would help, but the flame on;y gets on your way.
King Kong is a reat 1st person sooter, despite the flaws mentioined above. Playing as Kong is fun but it too is complicated. He only has on "hit" button and he caan also grab the enemy, and then use the two in a combo, but thats about it.

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