Advertising Blurbs
Nintendo Winter Catalog 2005 (DS):
Play as Man. Play as Kong.
Embark on an epic adventure created in collaboration with Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson and based on the Universal Pictures film. Play as both Jack and Kong. Survive as Jack in a world crawling with predators and live the legend as Kong. With Kong, you'll break jaws, slam enemies and throw massive objects in third-person battles. Jack uses weapons, traps and his team wisely to survive in a first-person experience.
Contributed by Joshua J. Slone 
(4624) on Mar 05, 2007.
www.nintendo.com – Nintendo DS:
800-pound gorilla
Ubisoft and Peter Jackson bring the epic King Kong film to the Nintendo DS.
Features
- Survive as Jack (the movie's Adrien Brody) in a world crawling with predators, using weapons, traps and your team wisely
- Slam enemies and throw massive objects in Kong's colossal third-person battles
It doesn't take long to figure out that the makers of this game aimed very high but in the end fell short of their goal. The game itself is similar to that of the Nintendo GameCube version. You play the Jack episodes from a first-person perspective. Non-playable characters join your adventure and help you solve puzzles along the way. (Sorry, Jack Black fans: The NPCs' dialogue appears as text, not as voice.)
Unfortunately, the game tries way too hard to make you use the DS's touch screen. As with Ubisoft's Rayman DS, all the action takes place on the top screen. You'll need to tap the bottom screen twice to pick up items and weapons. You'll also use the touch screen to change your view and aim. However, you move by using the Control Pad and the X, Y, A and B buttons and you fire with L and R. This hybrid approach to controls is very unwieldy.
In addition, you're not given a choice to alter the controls. Instead of aiming your gun with the Control Pad and moving with the buttons, you're instead wish you had a third hand.
The graphics aren't spectacular, but they're passable if you're able to get used to the control scheme.
Bottom Line
You'd have to be a pretty hard-core fan to pick this one up, which is unfortunate because it seems like there should have much room for opportunity with this title.
Contributed by Evil Ryu (32201) on Dec 14, 2005.
