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king of PSP games!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

graphics-5/5,simply awsome(they do look real!)
story-4/5,good but not great.
controls-3/5,confusing at times,but playable.
entertainment-5/5,moments from this game will always have a slot in your memory!
overall-5/5,amazing!
HIGHLY RECOMENDED!!!!!!

great game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: March 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

great any way you slice it,graphics,gameplay,how much fun it is,come on its great!GO AND GET THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stay away from Skull Island

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The world knows Peter Jackson by now as a man capable of realizing a wide-eyed epic view of our imaginations. What we get with Kong for the PSP is little more than an eye-blink. It's quite sweet, but unforgivably short.

THE GOOD:

The graphics are amazing. They really give you a sense of scale on this island, and the atmosphere is alive with danger. Dispensing with the FPS-standard displays makes the game seem more visceral; you have to rely instead on what Jack (your character) tells you he's still packing. With nothing else to rely on, you find that your wits are just about all you've got.

Playing as Kong is in my opinion is the meat of this game; it feels great being able to take down a T-Rex with your bare hands, not with a dinky little peashooter. Some of you may notice, though, that in the first few stages as Kong he plays a little bit like the Prince in the eponymous Prince of Persia. Watch the way Kong moves and jumps between trees and ledges: Give Kong a rope and a wallwalking ability and you can forget about the Prince.

THE BAD:

It's too short. I was finished in three hours. The environmental puzzles you encounter as Jack as mere variations on a very thin theme: oops there's a hedge look for a stick light it up whoops a monster shoot grab fire light hedge move on oops there's a gate look for a stick... And although you stop playing as Jack by the time Kong moves to New York, the time you spend in the endgame as Kong is unsatisfyingly short.

Plus there's a general feeling of... "unfinishedness." The subtitling in the cutscenes feels unpolished. (I would have preferred a more DVD-quality approach to this instead of the placeholder font they ended up with.) The short interstitial movies are too small, barely taking up a fourth of the PSP's otherwise generous screen. The game menus are very straightforward and give you little room for confusion, but they just don't seem very well-designed from a typographical perspective, adding to the game's overall air of rushedness.

The game's quite buggy, too, which I noticed in the last stages where you rampage through the streets of New York as Kong and come face to face with floating police cars.

Not to mention there's absolutely nothing to unlock - by this time every game developer should understand that unlockables make up at least a fourth of anyone's gaming experience on the PSP. There's just no reason to pick up Kong again after three hours.

THE VERDICT:

You might like playing as Kong, but that's about all there is to it. Do yourself a favor and steer clear of Skull Island.

fun game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game is fun but the only time you ever see a t rex when you are jack is on one of the last levels. and thats only for about 15 seconds. i played this hole game . its quit fun,if i am wrong, and there are more times you see a t rex , please tell me! if you played a demo of this game on the x box 360 and you played one called "chased", thats not in this game, which puzzled me. if you expect the same x box game only on the psp, its not.i dont no why they did not just take the same game and put it on the psp.whats kinda weird is i am allways seeing picturs for this gme with t rexes,even a picture on the back of the box ,one with him pointing a gun at a t rex next to a bridge,wich is also in the x box 360 version, but i never saw it in the game,you also never see any other people, even though it says that you do.IF I AM WRONG, PLEASE TELL ME WHERE TO FIND ALL THE STUFF I HAVE SAID I DONT SEE,IT WILL MAKE ME VERY HAPPY!

what the ? Terrible game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Terrible game- boring uninteresting
sound- 5 stars
fun- 1 star
graphics- 2and a half stars

I run out of bullets all the time and it is so unsmart! Don't waste your money on such a defected and boring product. Buying 25 ice cream sundaes is better than this boring game, because you will end up throwing this game straight into the garbage can!

sucks on ice

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

i rented the game and played and it friggin stinks.i would rather count sand than play that stupid game.you run out of bullets every time you get a gun.it is boring and the graphics stink.if you spend themoney on this game YOU WILL BE MAD!!!!

Help me Jack!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game I just bought it 2 days ago and it rocks!

Goods: Great graphics, awsome sound you get to play as Jack or The King. Playing as King kong is sweet you get to battle dinours and break thier jaws. It just like the movie.

Bads: Glitches sometimes when you play as kong and somtimes jack.Controles on the game are strange but getting use to them are hard, but I still love the game.

So if your looking to break some jaws or shoot creepy monsters this is your game.

Either I'm dumb or...Nice graphics btw

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I kept running out of bullets like the other person said...couldn't get pass the place after you get of the cave with spiders in it, lmao xD
I suck at this game or it's really hard...something like that, lol
The graphics are amazing though, but it's gathering dust in a drawer since I can't get past that part =\
Dumb bullets...unlimited would be nice, rofl

King Kong Isn't The King Of PSP Titles

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

King Kong for the PSP is a really short, boring, do-it-on-your-own game, and this is my review.

Graphics: 7/10. At first, the graphics seem really, really good. But after awhile, you will notice you are fighting similar creatures for the most part, and the levels are pretty much the same old dark levels that have similar landscapes.

Sound: 6.5/10. It's there. Creature's noises, King Kong's noises, foot steps, the guns, the grunts from everything else... nothing special though.

Control: 6/10. The controls are bizarre. You hold down the L button the whole time to keep your gun out and use R to shoot. You don't even have to realyl aim at something to shoot it, either. You use triangle, square, O, and X to look around. Pretty weird controls.

Fun: 6/10. This game is extremely short, extremely repetetive, and sadly, the story starts out like it will be a good one, but just dies after the opening video. If you are a fan of King Kong, this is worth a rental. If you aren't, you might just want to not bother with this game. Very, very passable.

5.8/10

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: January 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game might have good graphics but it is confusing and very boring. It is very short and half of the time you'll have no idea what you are doing. If you want to get a good kong game get it for console, otherwise don't get it at all.

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