Peter Jackson's King Kong - The Official Game of the Movie (USA / Europe / Sv / No / Da / Fi)
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Reviewed in 2005
84
✪ Reviewed on May 4, 2025
78
King Kong film game by Michel Ancel, surprisingly quality. The HUD-less system creates rare immersion, Kong sequences are delightful. Ubisoft Montpellier at the peak of their art for a tie-in. Short but intense and memorable.
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Action Adventure1 player16+
Description
Jack Driscoll explores Skull Island in 1933 to save Ann Darrow from giant creatures, while the player also plays as Kong himself in his battles against dinosaurs. Published by Ubisoft, released in 2005 in the United States and Europe. Directed by Michel Ancel, featuring an immersive HUD-free FPS mode for Jack and a third-person mode for Kong, with atmosphere faithful to Peter Jackson's film.
Peter Jackson's King Kong - The Official Game of the Movie review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
4/5
Story
★★★★★
"Captivating"
Michel Ancel removes the interface entirely: no health bar, no ammunition counter, no map. The character's state is read from the image alone, panting, sight clouding over, a hand groping, and the number of rounds is counted by shaking the weapon. The screen therefore contains nothing but Skull Island.
The orchestra falls silent while crossing the jungle and lets the fauna occupy the space: cries of unfamiliar birds, rustling ferns, distant growls drawing nearer. It only returns in the passages where you play the gorilla, with low brass that finally acknowledges the size of what you are handling.
The story accepts that its ending is known to everyone: we know Kong will fall, and the game does not try to preserve that suspense. It works instead to make the journey uncomfortable, alternating the fragility of an unarmed man in a hostile jungle with the power of a creature you will lead to its doom all the same.
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
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Collector interest
Peter Jackson's King Kong The Official Game of the Movie, a Michel Ancel adaptation praised for its interface-free immersion and intensity, more inspired than most film tie-ins. Still common, its collector interest rests on this unexpected success of a movie tie-in rather than scarcity. An interesting piece for immersive-action fans of the console, accessible boxed.
Is Peter Jackson's King Kong - The Official Game of the Movie still worth playing in 2026?
Released in 2005, Ubisoft Montpellier's project supervised by Michel Ancel offers an atypical adaptation of Peter Jackson's film. The Jack Driscoll sequences, experienced in first person without any HUD, leaning entirely on the language of sight and sound, remain a remarkable design idea. The Kong segments switch to brutal action and a sense of giant scale. The linear structure is deliberately short. A strong pick today for fans of authorial narrative games and for Ubisoft Montpellier devotees nostalgic about Michel Ancel's golden creative run on the original Xbox console hardware.
