King Kong Preview

Next, experiencing a more “arcadey” type situation, you and your friends eventually use two rafts to float down a river. But of course you just can’t be alone right? Well duh, right! So because your buddies are trying to help you survive, they offer you the use of an automatic rifle, a real weapon finally! Now as stated before, you have some company. Unfortunately a couple of T-Rexes have decided to grace both sides of this river with their presence, and of course they’re hungry! Now of course you can choose to shoot the living daylights out of them, but it’s almost impossible to know if you can take them down. Since the game has completely done away with the use of an onscreen HUD indicator, you can only tell when creatures take damage by literally witnessing their physical wounds. But nevertheless, the gargantuan dinos will continue to stomp along the sides of the river without even seeming to feel any pain, just itching to sink their teeth into you!

What’s another cool feature in this game is the actual environmental interaction you can have with your weapons! On your actual raft is a small pit of fire, and you have the option of actually lighting your spear with it. Soon your raft comes to a point where a field of grass comes dangerously close between you and the hungry T-Rexes. These T-Rexes are eventually joined by raptors, but thanks to their presence in the grass, you can simply hurl the spear at it and set them on fire, forcing them away from you! You have finally gotten your team to safety!

Eventually your raft comes to a dead stop and your team ends up in a new clearing. The location you’re now in is similar to the campsite you previously encountered, only this place is far more expansive. Unfortunately while trying to find a place to prevent the pursuing T-Rexes from tracking your scent, they eventually cut you off. You are now in their presence, and simply waiting to get a nice feel of what T-Rex teeth feel like! Or will that even happen?

But now we have a change of pace! We switch from the playing of Mr. Driscoll to the controlling of the king of the island himself! That’s right, just like mentioned before, King Kong is just as playable in this game as Driscoll is! Visually, he apparently looks very impressive. From his genuine looking body shape to the very movements that he makes, King Kong was brought into this game very well. He will beat his chest, he will barrel through his territory, all while carrying his prize female sacrifice in arm. Remember the situation in which Driscoll seemed doomed from his pursuing T-Rex adversaries? Well just when you think he’s dead meat, Kong suddenly appears from behind the forestry and begins absolutely pummeling your aggressors! Kong may not be the most intimidating looking creature of all time, but his sheer aggressiveness and strength is enough to scare anybody!

Kong himself actually has a nice number of unique battle tactics. He has an insanely powerful roundhouse punch that he likes to follow up with a painful looking backhand attack. He also has the ability to pound both of his fists into the ground, stunning just about anything and anyone nearby! However, what Kong exuberates as his “specialty” maneuver is something that is unseen in any videogame or movie EVER. In an almost too painful to watch execution, Kong can literally wrestle a T-Rex to the ground, grab its mouth and BREAK his jaw by pulling as hard as he possibly can on both sides! That’s a kind of sadistic strength that many would truly die for these days! But anyway, after Kong takes care of those T-Rexes for whatever reason made him, he then takes off into the distance!

Finally, Kong can also move in a variety of cool ways. Like the authentic looking giant gorilla that he is, he walks on both his knuckles and feet when moving slowly, but he has the ability to travel longer distances in other ways. In several different areas, Kong has the ability to squeeze into tight areas like chasms and gullies. In these areas he can swing, cling to the walls and even run along the walls in an incredibly fluid set of motion! Sort of reminds you of Prince of Persia doesn’t it? That’s almost a scary thought to be truthful. A big, strong gorilla equals the agility of an exceedingly smaller Prince? Let’s just not go there…

So there you have it! This is virtually everything we can know about this game up to this point. So as it seems, King Kong definitely has a great chance of being the next “GoldenEye 007″ in terms of movie-based videogame quality. Let’s just hope that all the hype isn’t for nothing and this game does indeed turn out the way critics think it will be. Peter Jackson is indeed a respected director with some enjoying the videogame adaptations of his Lord of the Rings movies. Let’s just hope his trend can continue when both this movie is released in theaters and the game is released in stores!