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Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

KING KONG is a fun,interesting,and unique game.First off it has great graphics,lighting,and sound.You will get a chance to battle and survive giant(V-REX)as KONG and JACK.The game has 5 weapons that makes the game really fun.The machinegun,pistol,shotgun and sniper rifle.You will be exploring the whole island as JACK surviving in the jungles,and rippin enemies apart as KONG.Overall this game is worth a buy.

King Kong, the Xbox 360 Game

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

Running through the jungle as a giant monkey is great fun. Unfortunatly, its less than half of the gameplay to be had in King Kong. The Story starts out on Skull Island. You play Jack, the Oscar-winning, beak-nosed protagonist of the movie. Armed with guns and spears, you make your way through the drab environments. The graphics are not very next-gen for a 360 title. In fact, they seem little better than a xbox game. The graphics do look a little better as the campaign progresses, as if the programmers figured out the 360 as they went along. As a first person shooter (as much of the game played as Jack is) the game is average at best. The game has a few good tricks up its sleeve: Killing monsters (dinosaurs, giant centipedes, etc) can be used as bait for other monsters, so you can sneak by. The game also has a couple of puzzles on each level, mostly using fire in some way, or figuring out a particular sequence of events to progress. It's ok, but the muddy graphics (I played it on a 42' HDTV), mar the experience.
The game shines a bit more when you get to play King Kong. Laying the smack-down on V-Rexes (T-Rexes virtual cousin?) is great fun. However, the combat mechanics are a bit one-dimensional. In my opinion, the best part of the game is rumbling though the jungle as Kong. You can almost feel Kong's sheer size as he climbs and jumps through the levels.
The in-game story follows the movie closely, and expands on some of background on what Jack is doing while the other actors in the movie are trying to escape Skull Island and save Naomi Watts. Side note: Jack Black (just as annoying in the game as he was in the movie) is accuratly portrayed, as is most of the other actors. However, Ann in the game looks nothing like Naomi Watts. Kind of a bummer, when she was one of the best things about the movie (next to the giant chimp, of course). The story leads to one of the down points of the game: You know Kong is going to die at the end. It makes playing through the last few levels of the game feel kind of pointless. I mean, who cares if Kong gets killed on the next to last level, when you know he's going to die on the last level? There is an alternate ending, that can be achieved by replaying a bunch of levels to accrue enough points, so at least there's that.
Ending comments: I had a pretty fun time playing through King Kong. The game really grows on you (like lice on a monkey, heh). The furthure I got into the game, the more fun I had. If your a fan of King Kong (and who isn't) this game is worth picking up for $20-$30 dollars. It would be hard to justify paying $60 bucks for it. Here's a rundown of the good and bad points: Cons: 1. Bland next-gen graphics 2. You play as Jack more than you play as Kong. 3. Repetative puzzles (how many times do I have to use fire to get past a certian point? 4. Last levels in NYC feel tacked-on. Pros: 1. Playing as Kong is great fun. 2. Good scripted events. 3. Story keeps you interested till the end.
Total rating: 7.5/10 (which is pretty good for a movie-licensed game)

This game was great!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game was so good. There was never a part during the game that I became bored. It really kept me wanting more. For a launch title, this game had really great graphics. I thought that even though the game was pretty short, it still holds up as a great action/adventure game. I personally loved this game and definitely recommend it to all xbox 360 owners. When you play as Kong, you truly get a sense of power. You can pretty much take anything down in you path and the enjoyment from this is awesome. Another thing I really liked about this game was the detail that the game goes into. Some parts of the game truly blew me away with its graphics. One thing that wasn't the best on this game was the way the achievments worked in the game. There was only 9 of them, and basically if you complete the game, you will unlock all of them while doing so and get the 1000 pts. This just seemed way to easy and with Microsoft saying how great these achievements are for games, these were not that great. Overall, I really loved this game and thought it was great!

Presentation
The menu is a little blah. Not great, not horrible, it's just kinda there. It in no means takes away from the greatness of the game, but it certainly doens't add to it.

9.0 Graphics
For a launch title this game is pretty incredible in terms of graphics. The first couple chapters of the game don't look as good as the rest (like 5% of the game). I don't know why, it just does.

9.5 Sound
The sound of the game is amazing and really adds to a realistic gaming experience. Things sound like they're are right in the room next to you. It really adds to the mood of the game.

8.0 Gameplay
The gameplay of this game is great, don't get me wrong, but it is pretty short. This is my only real gripe of this game. There is so much more the game could have had. It was great as is however.

7.5 Lasting Appeal
This game doesn't scream lasting appeal. It's a great game, don't get me wrong, but it lacks certain things that could make it last longer. No mulitplayer, no Live aspects (except achievments), etc.

8.5 Overall

Kong - Amazing sound for an amzing game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I don't usually like games that come from movies. The same thing goes with books becoming movies. They tend to leave some small but yet significant details out at times. But this game is great. The Story fits amazingly well. It goes along pretty well with the movie. You are going to want to rent it and get your points before you buy it. I was at a friend's house one Saturday and we went through and beat the whole game in like 6 ½ hours. It was pretty easy and king Kong was a BEAST. Very fun for the length though.
First of all, The graphics are amazing for a launch title. But you can't expect much from launch titles because they aren't always the best. But this is great in the graphics departments. It is cool but not 100% real which is impossible not in the movies. But you never know with the technology that we have today. it is getting amazingly great. Plus, the sound is great. I like to put that sucker on full boar and the subwoofer all the way up and it is sick. Pretty awesome stuff. It is cool that you walk around as a normal human for most of the game but there are few scenes were you can be king Kong and Kick some but. It is cool that they don't just give you the health and ammo that you have. You can talk to your friends in the game to see how they are doing.
Although the game is straight forward it is too short. There are no ways to check out other things. You do your levels and it is it. Although I do not own this game I have played the whole game over at a friends house and it is amazing. You should definitely get it. You don't have to buy. Just go out and rent it and beat it. But, you will have a lot of fun when you play.

Good game,

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Great game for the price!!!!!
But as you must know, It's old, so don't expect the best images.
The sound is perfect!

Um, what is the correct online code?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Peter Jackson: King Kong was very impressive and all but what is the correct online code?! The code they gave me was not it. Someone please tell me the correct online code. Oh and the website didn't give me it.

not 2 great

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 16
Date: November 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game let me down prety bad , i didnt expect it to be nearly as good as call o duty 2 which is an amazing game and lived up to all the hype, but this game did look realy good and the grahpics looked amazing and they are , and thats about wher it ends nothing else impressed me with simple shooting and puzzles so simple any 4 year old could figure them out. I jus didnt have any fun with this game besides the grahpics looking amazing there isnt anything else to see , you just fight the same dum ass looking enemies including big spiders ,crabs and scorpions that all look quarny as hell . And thats about it you dont even get 2 use kong much its prety much all fps and shooting the same old enemies and only bein able 2 hold one gun at a time with little amo. Yep this game jus isnt fun its prety lame and DEFINATLY not worth 60$. My opinion rent it or wait til its cheaper.

Great game really fun...way too many flaws!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This has got too be one of the funnest games made for 360. In my opinion, it would be in the top 10, but there are so many flaws. For example, you have to turn your 360 off and then back on every once in a while, because the AI wont interact with you properly. It gets sooooo annoying! But anyway, I would reccomend it! Maybe they will come out with a patch soon...

Good graphics? I think not.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 20
Date: December 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I judge a game's graphics beginning with how well the character's mouth moves to the dialog/words. That tells me if the designer really cared. The characters in King Kong have mouths that just open and close like they are saying "ma ma ma ma" over and over while the dialog is happening. It actually looks ridiculous. Not only that but even in the first scene in the boat, if you look to the side you will see the oars never even touch the water, create a ripple, NOTHING. One even goes right through a huge rock.

This is the first game I put in to show off my 360 to other people and they laughed at how pathetic it looked, after I had hyped what I had heard about this game's "great" graphics.

And the first action scene? Shooting at crabs with a pistol? What am I, 6 years old?

Big thumbs down.

Decent game, definately worth the $10-$15 range but theres so many flaws ...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played this game all in one night just to beat it because I didnt want to play it. Here are my negative experiences followed by the positive ...

- the setting graphics are way too dark. In a cave or in the jungle, when it rains and its cloudy, its just too dark for my liking. What really gave it a negative on the graphics was when King Kong is seen for the first time. That moment when he is coming from the deep jungle to take Anne ... I was exhilirated to see what this scene will look like ... it was terrible! I was hoping to get a little scare out of it or some dazzle at this remarkable beast. But no, he started off as a black fuzzy picture and when he came into being, the graphics being dark as well made him look like a mess. It looked like somebody scribbled mascara on the screen.

- I had to start the game over from the beginning on TWO occassions. Its bad enough when its one, but this was TWO. The first time is when I saved it on a level and played it the next day, one of the characters wouldnt move. I was suppose to follow him to a door so he can help open it cause you needed 2 people to open it. So I tried restarting the level, it wouldnt let me it just put me where I saved it and I tried playing the level before and continuing but after I beat that level and came to this level, still the same. So I had to start all the way at the beginning again. I wasnt too far into the game though. Well on the second occassion I got twice as far. I didnt manually save it, I figured it would have been auto-saved to that level but THERE IS NO AUTO-SAVE! So Im like omg, what happened to my game? So now im just like, I want to finish this game and never play it again. Which brings me to my next negative ...

- I beat this game in one night! It took about 5 hours. I had just got done beating Tomb Raider and Halo 2. Halo 2 took the longest time I loved that so much. Great game. But wow it turns out this game plays for 5 hours and has no replay value whatsoever. My next negative ...

- all the characters say the same thing when you click on them, its so dumb. All you will hear Jack Driscoll ask Carl is "Hey Carl you hanging in there". It would be nice if Carl told me where I had to go cause sometimes I didnt know what to do, or if he could give me a clue. But nothing, why even have that feature if you cant communicate?

- the "puzzles" are really easy. I wouldnt even call them puzzles. Honestly, it doesnt even have puzzles. Tomb Raider: Legends, THAT had lots of puzzles, that was an awesome game. I loved Halo 2 to death and when I played Tomb Raider, I liked Tomb Raider more than Halo because of the puzzles and because shes so hot and serene. I loved that game. And thats where we really stand between ratings. I dont see how someone can give this game 4 stars. When theres Halo and Tomb Raider. Halo is 5 star FPS and Tomb Raider is 5 star Puzzle. I would rate Call of Duty 4 star FPS but King Kong comes far short of those games. But this game is $15 so why not have it in your collection. One more negative ...

- the entire game revolves around this ... kill the monsters, find fire and a door lever. THATS IT! Honest to god, thats all youre doing on every level the ENTIRE game is finding fire to burn the bushes and a door lever to open a door. Now you can see why I wanted to beat this game to get it over with! And is why I gave this game 2 stars overall. But it got 3 stars for fun because of some positives ...

+ youre treking through a jungle and caves with dinosaurs and big creatures. It was a pretty adventurous setting I felt.

+ I like the spears and bones as weapons. Being able to throw spears at a creature then being able to take that spear and use it again is cool. After a couple times though, the spear will break. I liked throwing my spears at creatures rather than using a gun. It makes it more challenging. If you run out of ammo in your gun though, it sucks lol. But that makes it challenging too is using the spears and bones you find along the way as your only weapon until you find a crate with a gun in it.
+ you play as Kong (who needs no gun or spears =)

Overall, $15 for this game definately and I recommend buying it. You can live without it though. Soon you'll beat it and probly not play it again cause all you do is search for fire and a door lever. Even though I gave it a 2 star review, it deserves 2.5 just cause its King Kong. There should have been more imagination behind it though. This game could have been more elaborous.

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