Playstation Update

In case you’ve been sealed up in your cave for the last few months, I should mention that next week Peter Jackson’s King Kong is being released for PS2 (and every other console, if you care). Seems that making a game from a blockbuster movie (or vice versa) seldom works, but Ubisoft, with a little help from our friend Peter Jackson of course, has gotten something right this time.

You play Jack Driscoll, the screenwriter type who tags along with filmmaker Carl Denham and actress Ann Darrow to the mysterious Skull Island. Here you’ll find dinosaurs, crazed natives, and of course our favorite enormous gorilla. The first person perspective as Jack is quite different. There is no heads up display at all, an attempt to more fully immerse you in the game.

You’ll play as Driscoll for about 70 percent of the game, but in critical moments control switches to King Kong, whom you play in the third person perspective. Kong can climg cliffs, swing from branches, smash obstacles, and generally do all sorts of other things that our Mr. Driscoll could not on his own accomplish.

Sounds like a winner to me.

Peter Jackson’s King Kong is Games Digest Game of the Week. Make sure to pick it up!

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