Looks beautiful... but only a rent
In this game you can play as the main character Jack and also as King Kong. You cannot choose who you want to be, it happens with the events of the movie, so if you expect to be Kong right away you will be disapointed because you have to wait untill you get far enough into the game. After you finish the game a nice feature they have is that you can select scenes so if you liked a certain part of the game you can play it again without having to play through the whole game another time.
The game is easy to learn how to play because it has basic controls that most games share and anything new is shown to you through a tutorial. There are two tutorials one for controlling Jack, and one for controlling Kong. The tutorials are simple and easy to understand which makes the gameplay less frustrating.
The gameplay is new and innovative. There is no aiming reticle for the first person mode, where you play as Jack. To shoot guns you just aim towards the middle of the screen and shoot. The game tries to stop you from relying only on guns, and tries to get you to rely on spears and dinosaur bones to defend yourself from the hoards of Skull Island creatures constantly attacking you. You also play as Kong. This part of the game is in a third person camera. As Kong you can do many things that will make your testosterone levels skyrocket, such as break a V-Rex's neck or back or even biting heads off of flying dinosaurs. He is easy to control and playing as Kong is simply one of the best features in the game.
Sometimes playing as Jack you will come up against puzzles, most of them are repetitive but can get pretty frustrating because solving them gets harder and harder each time the puzzle pops up. Other than the puzzles this game is pretty easy and straightforward, except for a few difficult parts that can get frustrating.
This game also has many extras that are unlocked by playing the game again which earns you points. Many things will change how many points you earn after each section, such as how many creatures you killed, if your friends were injured, or even how long you take.
In short... Great graphics, great story, but way too short.
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