Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
is a first person shooter action adventure game based on the 2005 film
King Kong. It is a collaboration between the film's director Peter
Jackson and famed videogame designer Michel Ancel (Rayman, Beyond Good
& Evil), remarkable in that such true cross-medium creative
partnerships are rare in the realm of game development. It was released
on PC and sixth generation platforms on November 17, 2005, as well as a
mobile version also released in Winter 2005, developed by Gameloft. In
the United States, the Game Boy Advance version is titled Kong: The
8th Wonder of the World. All film cast members reprise their roles.
Gameplay
In
the game, the player assumes the roles of both New York scriptwriter
Jack Driscoll and the giant gorilla, Kong as they struggle to survive
the threats of Skull Island in 1933.
This
game is exhibitive of an industry trend to de-emphasize the role of
Heads-Up Displays: it lacks a life bar, aiming reticule and ammunition
readout (the ammo readout and aiming reticule can be turned on and off
at the player's will.), further adding to the challenge and encouraging
the player to find alternate weapons and techniques.
Interspersed
with Driscoll's adventure are levels in which the player controls Kong
himself, traversing Skull Island's unique geography, battling various
giant monsters while defending Ann. The Kong levels take place in a
third person view, as the player directs Kong to punch, grab and use
objects/corpses as weapons. He can also bite, climb, charge, hurl
enemies and even pound his chest to go into fury mode. When Kong is sent
into fury mode, the sky becomes tinted with a golden hue and Kong
becomes more powerful and less vulnerable to attack. Many of the Kong
sequences fulfill the role of boss fights, as the giant ape is able to
effectively battle the gigantic creatures that Jack's weapons cannot
harm.
In
the alternate mission of the game where Jack tries to save Kong, you
fly a seaplane. Diving down firing your machine gun at spotlight,
warplanes, and even Kong. The flying is limited in movement and action,
but players can perform various stunts like a nose dive and a loop to
loop.
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