Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie

Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie is a video game that consists of 6 releases

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When the beautiful Ann Darrow is kidnapped by the inhabitants of Skull Island, Jack and his team must fight their way through the island's prehistoric inhabitants and hostile environments, solving puzzles and fending off attackers, all in search of her. But unfortunately for them, so is a giant ape.

King Kong is the video-game adaptation of Peter Jackson's King Kong. It is part first-person shooter with you taking the role of the character Jack, and part third-person beat-em up as Kong.

Gameplay

Although games in which the player takes control of multiple characters are not exactly rare, King Kong takes this to extremes by changing the style of gameplay dramatically. Whilst most of the game is played through the first person perspective of Jack Driscoll, occasionally, players will get the opportunity to take a more diverse route as King Kong exploring the jungle in platforming style segments as you leap from trees and walls, and also taking the approach of a beat-em-up, usually in colossal, almost boss-like battles against a Tyrannosaurus Rex or at times even a pack of Tyrannosaurus.
Whilst playing as Jack, however, the game still manages to divert from the first person archetype most games follow by making ammunition for automatic weapons such as guns sparse and scattered far away, meaning the character has to learn to use bones, torches and sharpened sticks to fend off dinosaurs, giant bugs and other ghastly creatures.

"Hang on, where's my display? How much ammo do I have left?!"

The notable lack of a HUD also increases the difficulty factor putting players in a position where they need to judge how far and where to throw their projectiles. Due to the lack of a HUD, the game introduces tactics to keep the player in the know regarding their ammo count by having Jack shout out how much ammunition he has left whenever he reloads his clip. When injured too much, the screen will go red and blurry and Jack's heartbeat will sound off louder than usual. All this serves to create atmosphere within the game which, although used frequently today, might have been considered somewhat unnerving and effective when the game was initially released.

Production

    As the director of the 2005 remake of the movie King Kong, Peter Jackson worked very hard to make sure the video-game tie-in would be a more pleasurable experience for gamers than most other Movie-game tie-ins which are on the whole considered sub-par by the video game community. Jackson's own background as a video-gamer is known to have prompted this.
    The game was very made alongside the film and was seen as a collaborative effort between the cast and crew of the film and the developers of the game, two groups of people attempting to tell the same story through different mediums, and trying to evoke different experiences, whilst maintaining a positive response.
    Almost all of the cast from the 2005 motion picture lent their voices to the game including Jack Black, Adrien Brody and Naomi Watts. As well as that, Andy Serkis, the critically acclaimed motion capture performer praised for his acting as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy of movies, and playing King Kong in the movie provided his services for the video game as well.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by Chance Thomas and was released free on the official website. It contains mysterious and powerful elements, similar to motion picture score, composed by James Newton Howard.

Track Listing

Ann Leaves The Island
Ann's Theme
Between Two Worlds/Vision of Ann
Fury and Heroics
The Island Tombs
King Kong, the Tragic Hero
Kong Dispatches the Tyrant
Lost in the Jungle
Nest of Raptors
Panic
Raptor Attack/Death of a Friend
Relentless
Sting of the Giant Scorpion
The T-Rex Cometh
Valley of the Brontosaurus
Vampires of the Sky

Xbox 360 Game Installation

Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie requires 6.5GB of space to be installed on an Xbox 360 HDD.

General Information Edit

Game Name	Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
Platform(s)	Game Boy Advance PSP PlayStation 2 Xbox 360 GameCube Xbox Nintendo DS PC
Publisher(s)	Ubisoft Entertainment
Developer(s)	Ubisoft Casablanca
Genres	Add a new genre Action Adventure
Themes	Add a new theme
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ESRB	ESRB: T