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Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
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Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie Critic Reviews
Games based upon movies are rarely any good. I'm not talking about games that are "inspired" from the movies such as the Star Wars titles, but games that try to capture the entire storyline. Most games act as pure marketing fluff, a handful of games are...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Firing Squad
Video games based on movie franchises. Yeah, I know, nobody really wants to hear about them because unfortunately, the majority of games based on movies are cheap cash-ins designed to pocket even more money for the movie studio based on whatever...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Gaming Horizon
There are certain truisms in life – The grass is green, the sky is blue, and video games based on movies are sure to suck. Well, the first two are still holding up, but the third has finally been moved from “universally true” to “contestable,”...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Gamer Within
With video games based on movies suffering from an almost irreparable reputation of being complete flops, coming up with a solid and immersive experience was a daunting task for famed game creator Michel Ancel and his Montpellier studio. Preceding the...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Gamers Hell
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History has shown us that movies to games usually don’t pan out with positive results. In fact with the exception of a few games such as Goldeneye and more recently Riddick they are generally disappointing. So when I heard that Ubi-Soft was bringing...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at ZTGameDomain
Peter Jackson should have the nickname ‘Midas’ because he is getting the reputation, anything he touches turns to gold. Lord of the Rings for instance, while some people didn’t like his alterations to Tolkien’s classic fantasy tale, the films...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Games Xtreme
King Kong himself may be billed as the "Eighth Wonder of the World", but his video game exploits, while certainly a stunning visual wonder, are far too short and too shallow to be touted as anything but simple entertainment....read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Deeko
Ladies and gentlemen I give you Kong! Well now that we have that almost obligatory intro line out of the way, let’s start talking about what could be classed as a dream collaboration between the world of gaming and the glitzy world of Hollywood. Peter...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at DarkZero
If there’s one thing that gamers have learned to avoid over the years, it’s the dreaded movie tie-in game. Usually, though not exclusively, releasing alongside the major motion picture, the movie tie-in game suffers not only from contractual...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at eToychest
Having accomplished a major feat by brilliantly bringing J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy to life, director Peter Jackson set his sights on a much bigger and hairier project. The legacy of King Kong has been chronicled well after the...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at GameZone
There are so many ways to describe King Kong that we have trouble narrowing it down to just one. It's a great example of a movie tie-in that is easy to play, it's a successful combination of a first-person adventure and a third-person beat-'em-up, and at...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at 1UP
The only thing that springs to mind when thinking about a game based on King Kong was the mediocre Congo, a game based off the less-than-mediocre movie of the same name. A few deep breaths before playing helped to clear any preconceived ideas about hours...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Entertainment Depot
For years the convergence of video games and cinema has been heralded as the future of entertainment. Yet, virtually every time the two met, unbridled crap would emerge. Countless movie licenses were turned into cookie-cutter game titles, or worse, Enter...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Talk Xbox
King Kong is a rarity among games as it takes a movie license and actually puts it to good use. You play as Jack the screenwriter and Kong the ape as the story unravels on Skull Island and for a brief couple of missions in New York City. When the game...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at GameBrink
I was a little apprehensive the first time I sat down to play King Kong. Not so much from a leftover childhood fear of giant apes (giant clowns are another matter, though) as from having to endure a long line of mediocre to awful movie-licensed games....read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at GameSpot
When it comes to games based on movies, everyone's a skeptic nowadays. Even casual gamers now know to steer clear of most of these games, but King Kong is not one to be skipped. While this game won't last you forever, nor is its action just totally...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at AtomicGamer
I was a little apprehensive the first time I sat down to play King Kong. Not so much from a leftover childhood fear of giant apes (giant clowns are another matter, though) as from having to endure a long line of mediocre to awful movie-licensed games....read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Gamers Temple
Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie; not exactly the sexiest name for a videogame. Could you imagine if others followed suit? Madden NFL 06: The Official Game of the National Football League. How about Agatha Christie: And Then...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Game Over Online
King Kong on the Xbox 360 stands head and toe above the other versions (Xbox/PS2/Cube) in the graphics department. This isn’t some poor port like GUN or Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland. You can see visually the improvement that King Kong has...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Xbox-Evolved
December 6,2005 - Peter Jackson is known for making good movies. He made the stunningly epic Lord of the Rings trilogy, and King Kong will hit theatres in just a few days. Now naturally, with every big movie release, there’s a weak attempt at a game...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Amped IGO
Aha, my first full Xbox 360 review, and I get to do one of the most hyped games of the launch line-up. Here's the thing about King Kong: when it was being developed, you heard about the graphics. Rightly so, they are absolutely gorgeous. Some sequences,...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Electric Playground
The Xbox 360 is the first of the "next-gen" game consoles to come to the market, and King Kong is one of the best games to prove what it's capable of.
Directed by the minds that brought us the brilliant Beyond Good and Evil and The Lord of the Rings...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Games First!
Movie games are no doubt notorious for their questionable quality. Often, publishers and movie companies sign deals that say games based off their movie counterparts must release a certain date, most the time to coincide with the release of the film...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Xbox 360 Advanced
As one of the most anticipated big budget spectacles of last year, Peter Jackson's King Kong has had quite a hard time living up to the hype. Although many reviewers praised it as epic, beautiful, exciting, etc., most audience members (including myself)...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Gamenikki
With New Zealand Director Peter Jackson having achieved both technical and artistic merits with his triple-crown adaptation of J. R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, the man Elijah Woods once called a "hobbit" has reached the state of the Midas...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at IGN
Successful videogame monkeys are few and far between. We’ve got Donkey Kong, George from Rampage, and, if we lower our standards a bit, the monkeys from Super Monkey Ball and Ape Escape. But now none other than King Kong is joining the ranks, because a...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Boomtown
If I were Peter Jackson, I’d be sitting like a big ape in a cage with that dumb look apes have when they’re puzzled about something. Reason being, why is the King Kong movie not reaching Lord of the Rings heights from reviewers and audiences alike?...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at GotNext
If you were to ask anyone who King Kong was the answer you should receive is a twinkle in the eye and a tale of a huge kick ass Gorilla on a rampage in New York?Ask anyone who Peter Jackson is and well his adaptation of Lord of the Rings, one of the most...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Totally360
Welcome to Skull Island. Well, one of you was already here.
King Kong is a game that by design ought to suffer from a lack of identity. Most of the time you're playing through the eyes of Jack Driscoll, a gallant sort of chap desperate to extricate a...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Eurogamer
In an age of advanced weapons technology and infinite choice, few things are more rewarding than heaving a bamboo spear at a dinosaur. Who knew? King Kong, an adaptation of the bloated film, is a breathtaking, non-stop adventure.
You mostly...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Games Radar
Despite the typical industry pitfalls associated with forgettable movie licensed games and hurried system launch titles, Peter Jackson's King Kong manages to deliver the goods with the unlikely blend of first-person shooting and third-person gorilla...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at GamePro
The tale of King Kong captivated the public when it debuted on the silver screen way back in 1933. In that time period, the film was a marvel in storytelling that really paved the way for many of the epic adventures we see in theaters today. The 1976...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at TeamXBOX
Peter Jackson has become quite the popular director in Hollywood thanks to the phenomenal worldwide success of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It's safe to say that anything Jackson is involved in from here on in is going to be a gold mine for greedy...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at GamersMark
With the current-gen consoles (PS2, Xbox, GameCube), many game publishers make a base version of their game and "port" it so it works on the other consoles. When the Xbox 360 launched, only two companies tried their hand at releasing next-gen versions of...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Daily Game
Last year, Peter Jackson missed his annual event. From 2001 to 2003, Jackson and crew gave eager movie goers an early Christmas gift, releasing each part of their Lord of the Rings trilogy by mid December. It became a tradition for me and like minded...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Da GameBoyz
And, with a mighty roar…King Kong, modern remake of perhaps the biggest monster movie of all time, finally hit our shores. And it was good—if not a little on the numb-ass lengthy side. However, the videogame tie-in hit our shores prior to the release...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at ThumbBandits
Where the games based on Peter Jackson's interpretation of The Lord of the Rings have trod fairly traditional grounds, the one based on his rendering of King Kong does anything but. Peter Jackson's King Kong takes some pretty bold steps to distance...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at GameSpy
In the world of movie-licensed videogames there are usually two types: the shockingly poor cash-in and the mediocre, but playable game that's fun for most age groups. Sure, you get an exception from time to time (although GoldenEye is the only game that...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Pro-G
The overwhelming majority of King Kong unfolds from the perspective of writer Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody), one of the survivors of the ragtag crew that embarked on a disastrous film expedition to Skull Island in the early '30s. In an attempt to make the...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Video Game Talk
Everybody's favorite over sized monkey hits shelves in Peter Jackson's King Kong; the game that boasts the title “Official game of the movie”. Does it do the movie justice? You'll find out soon enough.
A story driven game (duh, there's a...read the complete Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review at Xbox Nerds
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