King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie

Peter Jackson is not only an Academy Award winning director but also an avid video game player. He worked closely with EA with the various Lord Of The Rings video games made; intertwining the gameplay with movie clips and having the actors like Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood do voice acting and filling the extras menus with plenty of interviews and making-of-features.

When he was getting his new version of King Kong readied, he once again wanted a video game version made, but this time he went to Ubi Soft to work with famed video game designer Michel Ancel. Ancel is world-renowned for being the father of the Rayman series and also the criminally overlooked Beyond Good And Evil. Ubi Soft released Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game Of The Movie for all major consoles and the PC. I played and beat the game on the Xbox 360.

In the game, players control Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody) through the nightmare that is Skull Island. The gamer must attack the various denizens of the Island that attack him or his friends such as Carl Denham (Jack Black), Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts), Jimmy (Jamie Bell), and others. There are also several puzzles to be solved. There will also be some levels where you control the King himself. King Kong re-enacts the fights against the T-Rexs and other huge inhabitants. You basically have one life; with a gameplay mechanic similar to The Getaway and Call Of Duty in which you regain your health if you avoid being attacked. You can also lose if one of your comrades is killed.

The gameplay is simple to learn and well-done. The graphics are excellent and you really feel you are battling for your life on Skull Island. The music is superb and the voice work is very well done. However, Brody brings very little of his Academy Award winning skills to the table; mostly uttering how much ammo is left or screaming ANNNN! Watts is very good but she says "Oh My God!" too many times. Jamie Bell, Evan Parke, and especially Jack Black are excellent as well.

Sadly, the game is very short. You can beat it six hours. However, you can play it again to unlock all the extras like featurettes, interviews, and art. It is a wild ride worth experiencing and Jackson and Ancel deliver one of the better movie-based games of 2005.

when games come out based on a big budget film the usually suck terribly. like the graphics a re terrible, the sound sucks, the voices aren't even the actors' voices. but i got news for you:this game blew them all away! man this game was a blast! the graphics was great, the sound was kool, but the thing i really liked about it was that the exact same cast from the movie voiced their character in the game!! which almost never happens. the only thing that i didn't like about this game is that it didn't really follow the line of the movie. it was more like the original with a different cast. which was kool but i would have perferd it if it actually followed the movie. but w/e i enjoyed it and so will you

The game is so Peter Jackson it's scary. The likeness of the characters is excellent, the game play good, and the atmosphere superb. The entire game makes you feel like you're on a ride at Universal Studios that you don't want to see end! Try the game out, and if anything, do it for PC! You can completely tell that Peter Jackson overlooked every aspect of the game and didn't just throw his name on the box. Also, it's hysterical to listen to Jack Black talk and deliver lines from the movie. A lot of times you feel like you're playing a Tenacious D game...but in a good way. So enough of my blab, play the thing, it's worth every minute.

This game mixes the great story of Peter Jacksons "King Kong", and some spooky horror vibes. It sometimes gets really difficult to proceed and becomes a great, nostalgic experience!

Most games based on films suck! But not KK. The graphics are sharp the strategy perfect the voices are PERFECT!! But don't rush out and buy it now. Because there are some(sigh) let downs. 1.You got to wait such a long time for KK to break free and start rampaging through New York 2.They could've let the guns be less powerful and fast because I just ran out of bullets of Drisscols 500 bullet machine gun and I could kill a dino in just 10 shots!! But instead of that go! Buy it! NOW! Peter Jackson's best! Really go! The best game of the year or the decade or the century or maybe all time!!!!! If you hate the movie you would still love the game! You would play it all week! Go get it it would be the best fifty dollars you ever spent!