“It just happens to be that a few weeks ago, with an evening to kill, we picked up Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (snappy title, Ubisoft!) and played it through, finding it a truly interesting title (no screen clutter, dynamic difficulty settings, interesting juxtaposition between first-person moments as Jack, cinematic third-person moments as Kong, ludicrous alternative ending, etc.) that made us think we were far fonder of Peter Jackson’s take on King Kong than we were previously. But then! It was on the Movie Network that very night, and we realised that we actually weren’t—we were just fond of Adrien Brody’s character, as we’d spent so long ‘being’ him.”
I’ve actually written something that’s tangentially about my pleasure at finding that Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie is quite good already, for Game Reactor. But I’m quite happy to state it for the readers of Torontoist, too. And you!
June 22nd, 2007 : Columns, Torontoist
