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

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Platform:   Windows XP   |   ESRB Rating:  Teen
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Product Features

  • Intense and climactic battles will challenge players' nerves and skills in fighting the savage beasts.
  • Survive as Jack in a world crawling with predators and live the legend as Kong.
  • Use weapons, traps, and your team wisely to survive in first-person as Jack.
  • Break jaws, slam enemies, and throw massive objects in Kong's colossal third-person battles.
  • Alternating gameplay with 3rd-person action as Jack Driscoll, featuring a unique resource management system for controlling your expedition team.

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  • Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
  • ASIN: B0009WH7DM
  • Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches ; 8 ounces
  • Media: CD-ROM
  • Release Date: November 22, 2005
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #16,912 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

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Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie is a creation that closely follows the storyline of the movie yet, as video games have the innate ability to do, will push the emotional tension of the film to even greater depths. The Signature Edition is only available for the PC and features enhanced content and high resolution visuals.

Players will experience unprecedented dual game play within a movie-licensed game which alternates between Jack Driscoll in first-person and as King Kong in third-person. These contrasting perspectives will immerse players into the journey featuring epic battles, tough choices and a dynamic experience within the visually stunning environment of Skull Island.

Players follow Jack through the entirety of the film experience, from the initial eerie sail to Skull Island to the gorgeous vistas of the city skyline. Real audio, characters, events and actions from the film surround you as you try to unlock the mystery of Kong's origins and eventual conclusion. Jack Black and other actor's actual lines from the movie are used to enhance the experience!

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Peter Jackson's King Kong captures the imagination, vision and emotion of the epic film. In this incredible new game, you'll delve into the film experience through alternative viewpoints designed to immerse the player. Battle for survival on Skull Island in first-person as Jack Driscoll AND experience the staggering power of King Kong in third-person taking on massive beasts.

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39 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars DON'T BUY ! DANGEROUS COPY PROTECTION WILL RUIN DVD RW, February 24, 2006
By Mitchell Cassman (BUFFALO GROVE, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 
DO NOT BUY KING KONG OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING GAMES (provided by Glop.org)
A lot of PC gamers have joined together, and decided not to purchase any PC games that use the Starforce copy protection method.
I will provide a list of games that install the Starforce device drivers, as well as a list of publishers that incorporate Starforce.
What is Starforce?
Starforce is a software copy protection tool installed by PC game publishers, which is designed to prevent the casual copying of retail CDROM applications. It installs as a hidden device driver, without the end-user's knowledge or consent.

Why are we boycotting it?
Starforce has received criticism for installing its own device driver onto computers. The Starforce drivers are often linked to system instability and computer crashes.

For example, here's one of the common problems brought by Starforce: under Windows XP, if packets are lost during the reading or writing of a disk, XP interprets this as an error and steps the IDE speed down. Eventually it will revert to 16bit compatibility mode rendering a CD/DVD writer virtually unusable. In some circumstances certain drives cannot cope with this mode and it results in physical hardware failure
Update: It has been reported by many users that the slowdown caused by StarForce on some recent multiformat DVD writers can cause irreversible hardware failures on those drives (they aren't recognized anymore), as they aren't supposed to write at slow speeds.

Moreover, the Starforce drivers, installed on your system, grant ring 0 (system level) privileges to any code under the ring 3 (user level) privileges. Thus, any virus or trojan can get OS privileges and totally control your system. Since Windows 2000, the Windows line security and stability got enhanced by separating those privileges, but with the Starforce drivers, the old system holes and instabilities are back and any program (or virus) can reach the core of your system by using the Starforce drivers as a backdoor.

Is my system concerned?
Starforce installs itself as an hidden IDE driver, during teh installation of a game, without letting the user know about it. It's not displayed in the add/remove program.

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Blitzkrieg 2
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Colin McRae Rally 2005
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Cross Racing Championship 2005
Curse: The Eye of Isis
Cycling Manager 3
Cycling Manager 3
Cycling Manager 4
D-Day
Dead to Rights
Demonic Speedway
Desert Rats vs Afrika Korps
Domination
Emergency Fire Response
Enigma: Rising Tide
Etherlords II
Fire Chief
Fire Department
Freedom Force vs The Third Reich
Gangland
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GT Legends
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Note: work in progress, this list is not comprehensive.

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Starforce is hitting the software market. Avoid getting one of those if you like to be able to do some backup of your legally bought software

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Un-Starforced games
The games listed below do not have Starforce included anymore. The editor of the game released an official patch to remove the Starforce protection, and thus fixed all the problems related to Starforce. Thanks to your support everywhere ! Keep spreading the word !

Area 51
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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Thanks for the alert about Starforce on this game!, June 27, 2006
Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 
I appreciate everyone letting the public know this game installs Starforce on your PC. I'm sure not everyone is experiencing the problems some have reported with this - that it slows down your drive speed when attempting to burn a CD/DVD, or possibly leaves you vulnerable to a virus or trojan that knows how to exploit the installation of this driver.

However, there ARE a couple of things that may potentially affect everyone. First, uninstalling the game will NOT uninstall Starforce. Second, and most importantly, it has been discovered that Starforce is NOT compatible with Windows Vista. So if you upgrade your PC with Microsoft's new operating system coming early 2007, you will no longer be able to play this game! That alone is enough to make me never buy this in its current state.

There is also a high resolution version of this game available only by download. I considered purchasing that one, then discovered that even gamers with high-end computers are reporting it to be very slow and buggy on their machines. Even more disappointing is how the high resolution version doesn't even support SLI! (Talk about lazy code writing.)

Man - I would LOVE to play this game, but even the DEMO installs Starforce! Come on, Ubisoft. Release a patch that fixes these issues with either the retail version or the high resolution version so I can gladly give you my money. Until then, I'll have to join in with the boycott.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great achievement, deeply flawed, October 17, 2006
By M. Benigni (United States) - See all my reviews
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Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 
I am here to blow off a little steam. I should say that during most of this game I really enjoyed it, even though it's very linear/scripted, and the limited difficulty is almost entirely artificial. This game doesn't excel as an action title - it doesn't have the physics, speed or responsive controls for that. And as an adventure game it really just presents the same easy puzzles over and over again. However, it is really is groundbreaking as an interactive, cinematic experience. The game is rich with atmosphere and free of conventional video game HUD elements, and the little vignettes that comprise the story are enough to keep you engaged. Hence the generous overall rating. If you'd asked me yesterday, I might have rated the game 4 stars of "fun" rather than 2.

So today I come to the bad news - some dramatic battle between Kong and... well I won't spoil it... big enemies. Which do you hate more, your mouse, or the tendons in your wrists? Either way you're in store for a treat. Controlling Kong in battle essentially amounts to the worst button mash I've ever seen in PC gaming - and maybe the least fun I've ever had. This scheme might work with an XBox or PS2 controller, but with a mouse button - and especially the mouse WHEEL button, it's weird, ineffective, and no fun. Also, for whatever reason (for me, did I miss something huge in the instruction manual?) impossible.

So I'll be uninstalling this game, trying not to think about any additional pretty content I've missed, and putting ice on my wrist. I've already ordered a new mouse.
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4.0 out of 5 stars King Kong by Peter Jackson
Excellent action packed game - purchased for my grandson (11yrs old).
He has played it everyday, but two, since getting it on Dec. 15th.
Published 10 months ago by J. Tubay

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Published on May 16, 2006 by Michael Johnson

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hey everyone this i a good game but watch out and make sure you have the right video card. i dont so the graphics arent as good. Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable game, but could have been better
First of all, I wouldnt be so concerned about the starforce drivers. There are programs out there that allow you to disable it or remove it from your system. Read more
Published on April 5, 2006 by A. Evans

4.0 out of 5 stars So far So Good-It pays to keep an old CD-R Drive
Just got this at Wal Mart for 20 bucks, i'm guessing the price drop from 40 to 20 was because of lack of sales and all the "issues" people have had, which i totally do believe. Read more
Published on March 29, 2006 by jermy man

1.0 out of 5 stars Dangerous Virus included
This software contains copy protection that will slowly ruin your cd drive. Thank Star-Force for their copy protection that does this. Read more
Published on January 31, 2006 by J. Holland

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