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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.

Fastest Xbox Live Achievements Around

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If I were simply rating this as the quickest way to get 1000 gamer points (just finish the game) it would be a 5 star review. However that's about all King Kong is good for.

Pros:
-Great voice acting: if you're a fan of Jack Black you will enjoy his comments throughout
-New take on shooters: rather than a display showing how much ammo you have left you click B and your character says how many clips you have left. (You can also go into options to have your remaining ammo displayed)
-Also when you run out of ammo there are plenty of spears to throw at enemies
-Great graphics: Obviously the graphics are now eclipsed by this year's giants, but they are much better than old Xbox games.
-Taking on T-Rexes and V-Rexes as King Kong is a blast!

Cons:
-Very short: you can beat it in one weekend.
-Puzzles are too easy: for every puzzle you light a stick on fire and burn thorn bushes, the only hard part, sometimes, is finding the fire
-Too dark: There are many places where you can't figure out where you're going because you can't see.
-Very linear: The whole time you're in a corridor and all you do is move forward.

I can only recommend this game if you're either a huge Jack Black and King Kong fan or if you want a quick 1000 gamer points. If you're a fan then you've already got this game. If you want easy points you can't beat that price!

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...

Decent game, but it gets old quickly

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I will be honest, I was not a huge fan of the movie and wasn't initially interested in this game. I purchased it recently because I had read that it was an easy way to get 1000 achievement points (just play it all the way through), and because it had considerably dropped in price to less than $20.

So, with low expectations, I have to say that I was initially pleasantly surprised. After some clips from the opening of the movie, the game starts off with you playing through the scene of them landing on Skull Island. The voice acting is great, as I keep hearing Jack Black making all his silly comments about capturing footage of everything as we move through the island. The graphics are good, as the character models look very much like their real-life counterparts and the island is rendered in pretty full detail. However, I would not put these graphics anywhere near Gears or some of the newer 360 games, but they are decent enough to hold your interest in the game. The game mechanics are pretty easy to pick up, you either have a gun or you can pick up a spear. Soon you learn to catch the spear on fire and use it to burn patches of thicket in order to clear the way or fend off creatures. There are also some other puzzle-like aspects, such as stabbing bait and throwing it to distract creatures, or needing to find the handles for opening doors.

From there, though, I found the game getting rather repetitive and old quickly. You run through a series of areas fighting and evading various creatures and finding a way out, only to get to more areas where you have to fight and evade creatures.

Finally, after what seemed like an exhaustive amount of play, I got to a stage where I was able to play as Kong. I felt the Kong sequence seemed like it had been tacked on as a gimmick rather than an integral part of the game. First of all, it switches to third-person while you're Kong, so the gameplay is totally different. Secondly, it just took me through a series of climbing, jumping, and swinging sequences, which were all accomplished by pressing 1 button to do everything, so it felt more like a glorified cutscene than actual gameplay. Lastly, I had to fight a flying boss, but due to the third person camera angle I could never face the right direction or time it right to punch him each time he swooped in at me. After multiple attempts I finally beat the boss, but ended up feeling more frustrated than thrilled by it.

The next level has me playing as Jack again, and I frankly haven't summoned up the motivation to play any further yet. I understand there are more Kong scenes coming up where you fight dinosaurs, so that might be fun, but the idea of having to play through another couple of hours as Jack doesn't seem worth it to me.

I recently acquired a few other new games for my 360, and I just find it hard to want to go back to this one to finish it. Perhaps there will be some time when I'll decide to finish this game, but for now I have shelved it and don't have a strong desire to keep playing.

All in all, I would say this game is decent for the price and can provide a couple of hours of entertainment, but don't expect to get hooked on it because you will likely lose interest fairly quickly.

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.

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)

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.

Long live the Kong

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game is both a First Person Adventure and a Third Person Action. You play as a human in the first person adventure sequences, and as Kong himself in the third person sections. Both modes are merged together within the storyline, flowing from one to the other. The story line determines which one you will be playing at any given time.

While playing as the human, you will have to overcome various obstacles and solve puzzles throughout the game. Many of the puzzles include finding handles to turn in order to open doors, or finding fire to burn some bushes blocking your path. While playing as man, it gives you a deep feeling of the `survival' element because ammo is scarce and you will often have to pick up and throw sharp bones or spears at enemies, in order to conserve your resources.

Graphically, this game is amazing. I was truly impressed with the level of detail all throughout this game. The hair on Kong is jaw-dropping and will keep you wondering how in the world the console can generate that amount of detail. The environments are lush and well designed.

While playing as Kong, you will mainly have some platform jumping, which is really easy to do, and mainly fight off dinosaurs and the human savages of the island, destroying their villages as you pass through. Kong's adventure is shorter than man's.

In both modes whenever you are badly injured, the screen turns read, all you have to do is stop or avoid taking damage and you health will recharge itself. There are no health packs in this game. Saving can be done at anywhere in the game however you will sometimes start at the beginning of the chapter of somewhere in the middle. The chapters for each mode aren't long to complete. Some of them are as short as ten minutes or as long as half an hour. Luckily whenever you die, you start not to far from where you were killed off..

Although Kong may lack the depth of game play desired by more advanced gamers, it is a truly unique gaming experience.

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.

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