Underbilling itself as "The Offical Game Of The Movie", this action-adventure game lets you play as both man, and the beast. It features FPS action as man and 3D platforming adventure as the beast.

With such a mouthful of a title, "Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Offical Game Of The Movie", you'd expect a mouthful of a game that closely follows the storyline set forth in the movie, right?

Wrong on both counts. This game is fairly short, easily under the eight hour mark. (It took me seven, but thats with a dinner break.) And it follows very little of the storyline from the movie, however, this does prove to be one of the more interesting aspects of the game, seeing how it differs, and how they tie in the events in the game with key events in the movie.

I enjoyed playing as Jack Driscoll more than playing as Kong. Playing as Kong seemed to be more of a buttonmasher of an excuse to get Kong into the game somehow. When you play as Jack, its almost Resident Evilish, with you needing to conserve ammo, use your surrondings as weapons (see that pile of bones, they make good spears), and even had some good sequences of intense action. Unfortunately, between Kong and Driscoll, there's not enough of it. The interweaving between Kong and Driscoll is interesting and well done, however.

The achievement points can be gained by simply beating the game once, however, the game does have some special features you can unlock by beating it again, and by using a code you recieve in the game on the website.

Unfortunately, this makes two X360 games I've reviewed that make better rentals than purchases.

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