Good graphics and fun play. I like the fact you can replay any of your favourite levels. Maybe a little scary for younger kids (I still get freaked in the level 'V-REX' and 'RAPIDS')
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Peter Jackson's King Kong: the Official Game of the Movie
(2005, Video Games - Action/Adventure, Rated T, Play it on: PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, Windows)
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Thrilling, beautiful game is over quickly.
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for Ages 13–15
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of Peter Jackson's King Kong: the Official Game of the Movie was written by Chris Jozefowicz
Parents need to know that this is an intense action game in which players will kill giant insects, crabs, bats, dinosaurs, and some humans. Most of the action is presented through a first-person view, and the violence involves both shooting with guns and stabbing with spears. Some third-person passages depict King Kong breaking the heads of dinosaurs and smashing humans. Though the action can be tense and the game provides many startles, the violence is generally bloodless and gore-free.
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What’s the Story?
PETER JACKSON'S KING KONG: THE OFFICIAL GAME OF THE MOVIE follows the plot of the movie, which is similar to the classic 1933 film: movie-makers venture to tropical Skull Island for exotic location filming. Players mostly play as Jack, a screenwriter on the project, as he and the crew rescue the beautiful actress Ann after Kong abducts her. Players occasionally control the big ape, too, including when he is captured and put on show in New York City, and when he scales the Empire State Building before falling to his death.
This is mostly a first-person shooter with some third-person passages. Most of the action consists of shooting or spearing giant creepy-crawlies and dinosaurs, while finding handles to open doors and torches to burn through bramble. As Kong, players grapple with scores of dinosaurs and swing through the scenery. Kong also has to pound his way through the streets of New York City.
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PETER JACKSON'S KING KONG: THE OFFICIAL GAME OF THE MOVIE is a beautiful, atmospheric, exciting, and tense game -- while it lasts. Both Kong followers and fans of first-person shooters will find plenty to love, but at only five or six hours, many players would be better off renting it. The jungles of Skull Island, the setting for about 90 percent of the game, seem hot and steamy, with shafts of light piercing the mist through the canopy of leaves.
The bulk of the violence is directed at beasts, without much blood. The Kong scenes are undermined by sluggish controls and simple action -- fighting creatures often boils down to frantic button mashing. All in all, this is very much like playing a movie: There is no on-screen display, crosshairs, ammo gauges, or health bars to obscure the view (although some of these features can be turned on from the options menu). Immersing players in the movie does lead to linear gameplay, though, which reduces the replay value.
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Released on 12/09/2005, price $49.99, not online enabled
ESRB rating: T
ESRB rating: T
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- I rate this title iffy for age 10 and give it
- I rate this title on for age 14 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
- My highlights are:
- Easy to play
- I rate this title on for age 13 and give it
- My highlights are:
- Easy to play
good game
might scare some people at first and there is a little bit visible blood
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
A very well made movie game!
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
finally, a good movie game
It's usualy stupid to expect a lot from a movie game, but not in this case. King Kong delivers intence action,a wide as- ortment of awsome scary mythical and ( suposidly) extinct creaturs,and a gripp- ing plot that follows the movie well.You get to play as Jack and Kong. As Jack you get to operate 4 different guns (I know that its not a lot, but it gets you through)some spears, and some sharp bones that you find on animal skeling- tons.As Kong you can throw and swing trees and kill noraly difficult enimies easily,but the bus sized bats and the t- rex' can provide a chalenge, espeialy when faced 2 or 3 on 1.If you think killing T-rexes as Kong is hard, merly surviving them as a human is practicly imposible.King Kong has some bugs, so be sure to save a lot,but other than that,this game is very fun. It keeps you on the edge of your seat for most of the game.On the whole, i'd rate this game 8.5 of 10.(7 being the average) Replay value: moderate. (good for a few times through)
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