Peter Jackson's King Kong for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

I'll start by saying that I still haven't seen the movie...so that probably has some kind of effect on my review.

Anyways, I thought the main strong point of the game was its subtle differences from anything I've ever seen before. It's not a first person shooter, but you'll use a pistol, shotgun, machine gun, and a sniper rifle. It's not a puzzle game, yet oddly enough I found myself perplexed on how to get out of some of the situations I found myself in.

My opinion is that King Kong does much better than what other "movie-to-games" have tried to do in the past. It actually delivers a movie experience. This is in part thanks to all the actual voiceovers done by the actors themselves. (I'm not positive every single one was done by their real-life counterpart, but you get my point.) One thing to be noted, be it of much value or not, is the fact that there is no HUD in the game. Never will you see a meter displaying how much ammunition you have left or how many hits you have left until you die. The entire game is played out in a blank (free of meters) wide screen.

I give King Kong a 7; here's why. I would give it a 9...if I had rented it to watch a movie. And I would give it a 5 if I ranked it solely on gameplay...because honestly, it's a lot of the same. (Light this stick on fire, burn down some bushes, repeat.) But because of the experience the game provides, which it does well, I am left in the middle at a solid, but not amazing, 7.

Oh my god, this game is absolutely horrible! I rented it for easy acheivments, but stopped playing because playing the game wasn't worth 1,000 acheivement points. Let me explain.
The campaign is the worst I've ever seen. The story did not follow the movie, and the stuff they put in to replace it didn't make sense. The makers of the game do not provide sufficient weapons to beat your enemies (aka bones to kill 3 velociraptors, or 5 bullets to kill 10 giant bats), and having to look down your sights to shoot is a pain with the sniper. Most enemies take 2-4 bullets to kill, which are few in supply, and it only takes two smaller hits or one good hit to kill you. Fire works well, but it is not very common, can only burn TALL grass, and frequent glitches prevent your enemies demise.
The graphics leave a lot to be desired. You can see the pixels easily on a lot of plants, rocks, and people. Also, some enemies look almost exactly the same as others. The spiders look just like the crabs, and the scorpions, with very slight veriations.
This game is very deceiving. You don't play as Kong much, you mostly play as Jack. This takes a lot of fun out of what could have been a good "monster fighting" game. I don't think a lot of effort was put into making this game. I've played some pretty pathetic games, but this was one of the worst games I've ever played, hands-down. This game is so bad, if you ask a paralyzed person in a wheel chair to play it, they would get up and run away.