The game is so flawed, uninspired, and quite frankly, unfinished, it has no business sitting on my desk.
Peter Jackson's King Kong is another one of UBI hack job DS ports of their big license titles. The game is so flawed, uninspired, and quite frankly, unfinished, it has no business sitting on my desk, staring at me with its menacing looking boxart. Underneath that WETA-designed piece of CG art, however, the game conceals every tell-tale sign of a title rushed to the shelves in time for the blockbuster's release, and more.
Everything about the game feals so unfinished, one can't help but think that either the developer simply left placeholder elements in, or stuff was just thrown in at the last moment to make the game even half-way presentable.
From the IPL icon, which is an MS Paint-scribbled "KK", to the cutscene portraits that still have the magenta outlines - a byproduct of recklessly scaled down sprites. The sound effects and music are crackly and over-compressed - possibly a result of last-minute code malfunction that forced the team to get rid of much smaller module tunes in favor of compressed WAVes. The graphics are extremely dark, and low-contrast, making the game almost impossible to play with lights on.
The first-person gameplay is sluggish and uninspired. Jack (in case you didn't yet know, that's the human protagonist’s name), moves excruciatingly slow, or rather, life like. Unfortunately, lifelike walking speed, and an FPS - not a good match! The touch-screen mouse-look might work in Prime-Hunters, but here it is, once again, marred by sluggishness. It takes up to three full finger-across-the-screen swipes just to turn ninety degrees, making any kind of quick reaction to an aural threat cue impossible... Yet the game still throws fast, relentless enemy drones at you from all directions, just to piss you off... And when you aren't fighting drones, you are navigating some dark, boring, maze-like corridors, while solving the same puzzle over, and over, and over again.
The Kong part.. well... I never made it to the Kong part! The Jack's game is just so bad, I don't think ANYONE will actually see the sidescrolling beat-em-up/platformer starring the huge ape, but from what I've seen so far, I can confidently tell you, it wouldn't be great. OK, maybe, but not great.
Overall, a very, very poor piece of license software. Save your money for something better.