King Kong fans compare the much-maligned new game to 2005's Peter Jackson adaptation, and it's not even close
Oct. 18, 2023Fans are remembering “a pretty damn good survival FPS”
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Yesterday saw the unveiling of Skull Island: Rise of Kong, the first new King Kong game in 18 years.Between viral clips of stilted gameplay and comical visuals, viewers swiftly labeled it a “scam,“and it’s clear that this is far from what monkey fans have been waiting nearly two decades for.
18 years later, fans are still singing its praises. Twitter user MajoraZ said that the adaptation is “actually [a] pretty damn good survival FPS game.” Those first-person sections are the meat of the experience, but Kong himself does appear in some third-person gameplay that also holds up pretty well. A coworker even tells it me was one of his favorite PS2 games, largely thanks to its rock-solid gunplay and “incredible” spear-throwing mechanic that let you pin dinosaurs and giant bugs to walls. Now, with the existence of Skull Island, several players have whipped up some gameplay clips and comparisons between the two games.
Getting your hands on Peter Jackson’s King Kong isn’t even too difficult. You might be out of luck with the PS2 version, and it sounds like it might be a bit tricky to get it running on PC, but the Xbox 360 version is backwards compatible on Xbox One and Xbox Series X.
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