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Ubisoft
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First Person (as Jack Driscoll) Version
reviewed: "I’ll not try and pull the fur over your eyes and claim King Kong is an adventure game, for it’s not, but it is a magnificent adventure to experience. It is nonstop and propels forward at a breakneck pace that is so exciting that it will soon have you in the palm of Kong’s paw. "If you are the type of gamer who shies away from action, frustrated with complicated controls and submenus, then this is the game for you...the controls are as intuitive as any game ever developed and the onscreen HUD is nonexistent...this is not a first-person shooter even though you can equip and use a pistol, shotgun, sniper rifle, machine gun, bones and spears. "The game is not a simple scene by scene adaptation of the movie, but instead often veers off into other directions by introducing new parts of Skull Island not in the film. And whereas the first hour of the movie covers the voyage to Skull Island, the second hour Skull Island and the final hour New York, the game begins at Skull Island and stays there for about 90% of the game before moving to the inevitable conclusion in New York. "All of the now-classic characters are present and voiced by their film counterparts – Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow, damsel in distress; Jack Black as Carl Denham, the risk-taking cameraman, and of course Adrien Brody as Jack Driscoll, who has been upgraded from sailor to playwright...But here is the great twist – not only will you play as Jack, but at times you will be Kong, the 8th Wonder of the World...When playing as Kong the view shifts to a third person perspective. "The few puzzles in Kong are of the ‘find the lever’ variety and to be honest should have been omitted from the game. This game is about feeling as though you are actually wading through swamps, shooting the rapids or walking cautiously beneath the underbelly of a Brontosaurus (thank goodness they seem to be asexual). There are no cheap deaths, you will not fall off a cliff due to poor programming. "Peter Jackson’s King Kong is the most exciting, immersive game you will play this year, and almost any other year for that matter. Hopefully, it will set the standards for future movie-based games much as the 1933 film set standards for future generations of film-makers. So play as Kong, play as man, but just play."
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