That's right, a good movie tie-in! Made by Rayman/Beyond Good and Evil creator Michel Ancel. Apparently Peter Jackson liked BG&E so much he chose Michel's team to create the game!
Play in first person as Jack, or in third person as Kong himself. Really fun, really atmospheric and very faithful to the movie, with some great voice acting from the movie's cast. One of the first games to throw away the HUD and rely on visual/audio cues to let you know what's up. While it's short (4–6 hours) and could use a few more Kong levels it's a great game and worth checking out.
Also on the Xbox, Xbox 360, PS2 and PC. The Xbox 360 version is superior due to heavily upgraded graphics.
Play in first person as Jack, or in third person as Kong himself. Really fun, really atmospheric and very faithful to the movie, with some great voice acting from the movie's cast. One of the first games to throw away the HUD and rely on visual/audio cues to let you know what's up. While it's short (4–6 hours) and could use a few more Kong levels it's a great game and worth checking out.
Also on the Xbox, Xbox 360, PS2 and PC. The Xbox 360 version is superior due to heavily upgraded graphics.
This review contains spoilers
This game is worse expectations are for a game Peter Jackson worked on. The Story is the same as the movie, with few minors changes for gameplay that aren't worth remembering, although there was a dumb moment when Jack let's the natives capture him without resistance. The Characters are the same as the movie, so that's good. The Graphics are bad, they look generic, and the few good looking environments don't make up for the generic looking island. The Gameplay has you play along the more action like parts of the movie, plus adding more moments of that for gameplay, but the gameplay mostly has you attacking giant bugs and dinosaurs over and over again, making levels repetitive, the only fun I had with this game was playing as King Kong himself, his controls are not smooth, but at least you can swing about with him, movement controls are very stiff and feel limited when you play as anyone. The Music is good, feels like the atmosphere the game replicates from the movie. King Kong wasn't killed by the aero planes, it was repetitive levels killed the beast.
Juego de mi infancia que retomé hace poco para responder a la pregunta del millón ¿Es tan bueno como recordamos? (Afrontando la respuesta con miedo de hacerle daño a aquel niño) La verdad que el juego me ha encantado, tiene sus problemas como la repetición de mecánicas constantes sobre todo de cara a las horas finales del juego. Para mi este Kong sigue siendo un obligado del catálogo de PlayStation 2, sobre todo las primeras horas con Jack cuando la isla se va abriendo y el juego te va enseñando como jugarlo, realmente algunos niveles te hacen sentir pequeño frente al mundo hostil en el que te encuentras y el juego se atreve a coger parte de los elementos de los survival horror clásicos e implementarlos en un juego de una película (en la época de los juegos de películas) y creo que estas fases son de lo mejor del título, en las que apenas tienes que disparar. Otro de los puntos fuertes es la interfaz limpia que allá por la época era algo dificil de ver y te hace meterte de lleno en la historia. Los niveles con Kong no son algo muy trabajado pero tampoco creo que no aporten nada, no se puede analizar este juego sin tener en cuenta la película. Jackson y Ubisoft querían que ambos se sintieran hermanos y en la película vemos dos historias principales, la de los humanos y la de King Kong con Anne con lo que justifica completamente estas fases. Eso no quita que les falte un poco de originalidad y se quede en golpear un botón y subir a Anne a sitios para que te desbloqué el camino a seguir. Si no lo habéis jugado os recomiendo empaparos de la película antes de conectar y revivir esta aventura que hoy en día se mantiene muy en forma.
The most fun movie tie-in game ever made. I have completed this game countless times and it remains fun to this day. Great visuals for its time and unique, but satisfying combat system for Jack and Kong. Playing as Kong is as fun as you would hope it would be and Jack has a decent first person shooter campaign. I dare you to mention a better direct movie based game, the only one I can think of is Wolverine on 360.