KINGKONG CLASSIC

Reviewed by johnyfalcon on November 25, 2007  |  report this review

If you can only play one FPS/Giant Ape sim game this year, make it King Kong! by Vaughn Smith

November 30, 2005 - Welcome to the intro paragraph of my review of King Kong. Correction: Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie. That's a mouthful, but luckily I'm typing. This is the part where I'd usually jump right in with one of those diatribes regarding how licensed games aren't usually very good yada yada yada, but I just don't have it in me to start another review of a licensed product that way today. Besides those kinds of intros go either one of two ways: Intro A) Licensed games are usually crap and this game proves it or Intro B) Licensed games are usually crap but this one is the exception. Since we're dealing with a huge pissed off mutant mammal (Peter Jackson, not King Kong) , let's go with Intro B for the sake of personal safety. Relax. I keed. I keed. PJKKTOGOTM is a whole lotta fun and manages to be almost as brilliant as designer Michel Ancel's previous work Beyond Good and Evil, which landed him this gig in the first place.

King Kong the movie won't be released into theaters for another few weeks but Ubi Soft knows that missing the all important November release date could spell trouble for game sales, especially if movie reviews are lackluster even if the game happens to be great; which it most certainly is for the most part. If you're a diehard Kong fan and don't want to ruin the movie experience I can only highly recommend NOT playing the game as it follows the events of the movie.