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Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie

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. Survive as Jack in a world crawling…

80 17 November 2005

Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie is an adventure developed by Ubisoft Montpellier, released 17 November 2005 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie is

Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montpellier and released in 2005. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Jade.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In 1933, an ambitious filmmaker named Carl Denham charters a tramp steamer to the uncharted and forbidding Skull Island, bringing along scriptwriter Jack Driscoll and aspiring actress Ann Darrow to shoot his movie. When the expedition lands, the crew quickly discovers the island is a nightmarish world untouched by time, teeming with monstrous insects, vicious predators, and towering prehistoric beasts. Disaster strikes when the native islanders capture Ann and offer her as a sacrifice to Kong, a colossal gorilla who rules the jungle. Torn between terror and devotion, Jack plunges deep into the wilds to rescue her, armed with little more than scavenged weapons and his own resolve. Players…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the King Kong series

Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie is the tenth of 25 entries we hold in the King Kong series. The next entry was Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie in 2005. Its critic score of 80 is 17 points above the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is King Kong at 80.

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How it was received

Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 76, across 147 votes.

What it launched against

Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie launched on 17 November 2005, within three weeks of Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Mario Kart DS, Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005) and Star Wars: Battlefront II. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Mario Kart DS, Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005), Star Wars: Battlefront II.

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When did Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie come out?
Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie was released on 17 November 2005 for Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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