King Kong: The Video Game | A Forgotten Classic

King Kong was one of my favorite games growing up. It's an incredibly ambitious FPS from the late 6th/early 7th generations. Its a game that is never brought up in discussions of classics but i want to change that
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[@TheTrueRandomGamer]

Thought I was the only one who remembered this. Blew my mind as a kid.

[@enchantedpoop3320]

Same

[@Anemptybox]

I remember getting this because I subscribed to a gaming magazine. I think I was 15 at the time and thought it was quite good.

[@GojiraSteve2019]

Loved this game as a kid, well this and war of the monsters on the ps2

[@J0hnHenrySNEEDen]

Never really finished the game, that giant centipede scares the shit out of me

[@fullkomboz6492]

Hell yeah

[@Cryyfuu]

holy shit.. this game was amazing. you just took me back.

[@Dopeymanthing]

Yep me too, loved this game.

[@ZelenikTchingy]

The only other game that has that story telling, atmosphere and music is Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness, sadly the controls and some other stuff suck because it was released incomplete

[@jovif.spemudaindonesia1841]

I agree this game are amazing

[@barackputin]

@@Dopeymanthing ok virgin

[@Dopeymanthing]

@@barackputin wtf it looks like im schizophrenic lol looks like i was kicking off at someone in the wrong chat haha

[@sculptureofsound2]

i COMPLETELY agree this game is totally underrated. i was obsessed with it when I was a kid.

[@ZelenikTchingy]

The only other game that has that story telling, atmosphere and music is Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness, sadly the controls and some other stuff suck because it was released incomplete

[@sashimi879]

@@ZelenikTchingy Those controls made me wanna kill myself

[@layers5255]

TWO MAGAZINES ON BACKUP

[@comixproviderftw_02]

JAAAAAAACK!!!

[@jaywilliams9294]

Its ok i got enough magazines

[@ingejohansson3456]

Hey Jack, you want to quit counting out loud? Or maybe you wanna attract more of those things!

[@bradleykolias8749]

This island is fantastic!

[@FantomPhoenix]

ONE MAGAZINE ON BACKUP

[@ProDucktions0]

The V-Rex and brachiosaur missions scared the shit out of me as a kid. A remaster of this game would be a dream.

[@sculptureofsound2]

SAME

[@alepepperoni2563]

a remake would be difficult or expensive because obvious licensing issues but fuck man i wish...

[@tomt2461]

I used to have nightmares about the giant centipedes in this game when I was a kid

[@comixproviderftw_02]

The V-Rex in this game is the best roar.

[@TheCaveman2000]

Dude the raptors in the stampede area were so fast, I shat myself every time I heard them.

[@fallenstar2923]

Man, this game is the definition of catching lighting in a bottle.

[@oldman5247]

This and Revenge of the Sith are some of the best movie based video games I've ever played! Maybe even Two Towers and Return of the King would be good examples now I think about it.

[@arcanefury3666]

I never finished Revenge of the Sith my copy got scratched and just stopped working.

[@akirafuto7783]

Top tier movie adapted video games right there

[@zacharyrichardson7189]

The Warriors is THE best Movie-game

[@freighttrain6932]

@@arcanefury3666 I spent many a day going to the local game store after school to get rots,battlefront 2 and halo cleaned and repaired cus my 8 year old brain rebelled at the thought of putting em back up lol

[@ShockwaveMuncher]

This game. Revenge of the sith. And the first transformers game. Where you could fly around the city. Were the best

[@pavlevrabac1289]

Most of the cut levels are because they ran out of budget. I think they talk about this in commentary that you can unlock. But yeah, they were passionate about this game. And Peter just let them. They came up with so much they had to cut it from the game, because of budget.

[@bobcat24]

Dang. Now I want a remaster/ remake where they add the content that they couldn’t add in before.

[@pavlevrabac1289]

@@bobcat24 It's Ubisoft, they won't allow it unless it involves scams (micro transactions, goofy looking skins that don't fit the theme, boring gameplay. Focus on PvP) As is Ubisoft now, better stay dead than made into a garbage game that scares of investors.

[@user-ns4zm8qe9p]

Aw it got halo 2’d

[@Indigo_Gaming]

Not gonna lie, I came here because of the thumbnail.

[@josesosa3337]

Love your cyberpunk vids. I feel there is more to say but I ' ll leave it at that.

[@Crota0100]

Always liked this game, glad it's backwards compatible on Xbone.

[@Crota0100]

@Ronald McDonald Yes it will, just pop in the disc to your Xbox One and it'll start installing to your HDD. It simply uses the disc as a way to ensure that you have the game, all back compat games run off a digital version instead of off the disc.

[@justanotherperson7774]

●○● *y e s*

[@Crota0100]

@Ronald McDonald No problem man, that's a good price for this great little game!

[@brandontorrez1]

This comment caused 10+ people to switch over to xbox

[@josesosa3337]

This is one of the games i've beaten the most when i was younger and i loved it. Other youtubers talked about it and i'm glad you are too. This was done by the team who worked on beyond good and evil which i discovered years later. Great stuff. (Typed this before i watched the video)

[@DIYisntDead]

Listening to Peter Jackson talk about Beyond Good and Evil shows he has a love of story telling in media. This clearly a passion project for him. I wish more movie games had that passion behind them. No wonder the game is the cult darling it is.

[@ZelenikTchingy]

The only other game that has that story telling, atmosphere and music is Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness, sadly the controls and some other stuff suck because it was released incomplete

[@kazmiller7195]

I was a kid when I played so I was confused Everytime he brought up magazines

[@kurisechan88]

Clips are what civvies use in their hair, this here is what we call a "magazine"

[@Neurodivergent-j1f]

Personally, looking back, I realized that the fact that the Kong levels were so few in between, is because of how therapeutic they were. You spend the majority of the game as a regular human, running on limited resources, on an island where every single thing that moves is trying to kill you. There is fear in every corner. When you become Kong, you become the thing to be feared. And that level of power you have while playing Kong is completely subverted when you get to the New York levels.

[@BugsyFoga]

" It was beauty that killed the beast " - Jablonski

[@toongrowner1]

wait... whos jablonski?

[@rabz4948]

Jack black

[@toongrowner1]

and why you call him jablonski?

[@howler1579]

Did he say that in one of his videos? And if so which one.

[@henz5497]

Holy shit. This video brought back so many memories. This game is what got me into gaming. I have never had more nostalgia on a KZbin video before. I can still remember all the levels,monsters,dialogue,etc. Thank you for making this video and reminding me of how much I adore this game. I didn't even know about the alt ending. Guess I was bad at it lmao.

[@TheAfturBurth]

Just want to add that the Xbox 360 version is backwards compatible on the Xbox One/S/X, and by extension will be backwards compatible on the Xbox Series X/S when they release.

[@michaelphillips2329]

The reason why some of the levels, such as the swamps, kong and log missions feel really disjointed and feel slapped together is because the xbox 360/ps3 versions have had the pre mission cutscenes removed for some unknown reason. In the ps2/xbox/game cube versions of the game there were small cutscenes that would play, ranging from simple glimpses and hints of what may be coming up next, or in the cases relevant to the mentioned levels, cutscenes that bridge the gaps between levels to stop them feeling disjointed and sudden. I honestly cant fathom why they were removed. Theres one really cool one where after hayes is trampled by the v rex and it tackles kong off the edge of the cliff, a cutscene would play showing kong and the v rex falling down the cliff, hitting the ground and staring eachother down. These cutscenes just make the experience 10x more cohesive and better in general

[@Firelord500]

king kong looks familial I think I saw him in the halo infinite trailer

[@damienlarson4145]

well you're not wrong.

[@Gruntvc]

Halo Craigfinite, fixed. 👍

[@hiddenarcproductions]

It’s so strange - About a year ago I made a video essay on this game for a video game writing course because it was a particularly fond game I bought after renting it twice from blockbuster, and one of the first things I said was that I doubted anybody else even remembered let alone played it. And suddenly I’m seeing this influx of content from people I follow all remembering and playing this game. I guess it turns out the game had more of a passionate following than I could’ve thought. I’m stoked to see it! Great video.

[@emoimo4171]

I remembered every single detail of the entire game, the second I heard him say “Four magazines on backup!” Dude called out his ammo so much, and so dramatically, it’s burnt into my friggin brain, bro I literally hear his voice in my head, every time I look at my ammo in any shooter now

[@AntivenomOW]

Haha same! This feels so nostalgic to me ^^

[@lastmexicano]

If you went into setting I think you could see the amount of ammo you have. I remember those call outs too though

[@kurisechan88]

This game made me optimistic that the future of games would be with 0 HUD. Just a pure seamless experience.

[@valletas]

@@kurisechan88 0 hud doesnt work in most games like how would something like doom work without hud?

[@kurisechan88]

@@valletas ammo counter on the gun health bar can be replaced by something more creative

[@cdawg9531]

I’m glad to see there are others who found this game to be extremely enjoyable. Yeah there are some bugs and inconsistencies, but for the most part, this game still is great even after 15 years. I used to crack up whenever one of the velociraptors started dragging Denham away and you just hear him screaming for his life.

[@WMan37]

This game was fantastic, I used to have it on Playstation 2 and I played the absolute shit out of it, got the secret ending and everything. It's one of those games that is "forgotten" in the sense that it sits deeper in my subconscious than something like, say, Ocarina of Time, but whenever someone mentions it the memories come flooding back.

[@1theinsanity118]

This is one of my favourite games of all time, I used to play it for hours on end. My favourite thing was using king kong and using the different finishers on the T-rex. Still a classic for me.

[@darkknight11311]

Bro I'm so glad someone else remembers how good this game is!

[@brotherjak]

This has always been one of my favorite childhood games and Im glad its getting the recognition it deserves from one of my favorite KZbinrs.

[@Sora2314]

This game was a big part of my childhood. Even on PS2 it looked so realistic to me

[@BrosephTincans]

Find a woman who looks at you the way Peter Jackson talks about Beyond Good and Evil

[@HAOSimulator]

I love the idea of the movie actually just being several scenes of Jack just completely fucking up everything on the island.

[@andreworders7305]

16:25 The most recent licensed remake I can think of, Spongebob, actually had a remake worse then the original. It even has the too many bright contrasting colors problem you mentioned. Remakes won’t always be better overall experiences, and since they’d have to pay for the license they’d probably make it really cheaply.

[@AllHailShadow117]

2 Cvit videos in one week?!? What the hell is happening?!?!? I’ll take it

[@HunterTinsley]

Yea, I still really like this game! I have to imagine they were at least a *bit* influenced by Trespasser. Especially Minnie Driver's narration and ammo counting. I do recommend anyone interested to play the "Gamer Edition" on PC. King Kong, Condemned, and Far Cry 2 are all great immersive "7th gen" FPS.

[@MandaloreIII]

This and Predator: Concrete Jungle are still games I go back and play to this day.

[@mogueraguh]

Hell yeah! concrete jungle is a jam

[@codyvaughn4195]

This game, Wolverine, and Chronicles of Riddick are the best movie games ever!

[@wenbluepirate3954]

I played the PSP game. They made you use the right buttons (X, O and the others) to move the camera (since there is no other joystick) and move with the joystic. Arrows were menu stuff and the R and L were shooting and reloading or something. It was a weird set up! It would kinda push of the game. But I played still through and it was such a ride. That was some good Survival Horror, if I may say. Running out of ammo when a fucking velociraptor is around and having to find a spear in the ground and fight it only with that is such a rush.

[@AntivenomOW]

Wow, I can‘t believe people actually know and like this game! It was my first game on the original xbox and I absolutely loved it. Even my parents, who don’t play video games AT ALL, played the whole game in one night after I went to sleep ^^ It still is one of my favorite games

[@MauricioFernando17]

I played this game all the time as a kid

[@SnowDouble]

Oh my god I think this is the first game I ever played!!! Growing up my dad bought a PS2 for cheep and he'd only play games based off tv shows or movies he like Godfather and 24.I remebered playing this game and losing only for it to go to a cutscene where your captured and then king kong comes out. When it was passed down to me I remember he traded in all his games for other ones he thought id wanna play instead like crash bandicoot and Shadow. Dude just remebering this game exists made my day, I gotta call my old man ;~;

[@supahgualtah]

Only played movie and show based games. Man he missed a lot of great stuff

[@squigin3380]

it's weird how this game was forgotten cuz I remember at the time reviewers were actually praising it as a great movie liscensed game, I remember playing it on PSP as a kid and thinking it was actually a really good mobile game. to be honest I remember being really impressed by playing basically a full first person game on a handheld

[@deanlennon4604]

I loved this game as a kid I had an obsession with it. Luckily I still have it and it works perfectly on my Xbox Series X.

[@scenecaffeine9]

I remember this just being a game we had for ps2 would love to go back and play it now

[@Travingel]

played this recently, adored it when i was a teen. revisiting though i remember why i hated the name ''jack'' so much for a while since ann CONSTANTLY SCREAMS IT

[@palmeida1520]

When i was a kid, every time the bloody t-rex showed up on the screen, it always scared the hell out of me.

[@claire6452]

I remember really loving the game back then on gamecube, haven't played it in ages.

[@lastmexicano]

Gamecube was so dope with this game!

[@slash4216]

Complains about length of film. Me: Hides my Extended Edition from sight.

[@samz8691]

Dunno if you go into in this vid yet but it's a shame the PC versions of this game are a mess and there's no official digital re-release, since if I remember right, the physical release (Based on the PS2 version) had Starforge, that terrible DRM that basically bricks modern systems.

[@supahgualtah]

Im gettin it for my 360 because of that

[@BaileyNUFC]

Honestly, this game had me covering my eyes at times when I was a kid. Those goddamn spiders blocking my way were too creepy😳 I actually hate how they made them unkillable and can only be baited away.

[@thecircleoft.e.d2121]

A remake of this game would be so awesome to see; one of my favourite childhood games, great atmosphere and the survival horror theme worked well in making Skull Island feel like a no-man's land. And yes, those sound effects are damn good; I can still hear the noise the millipedes (Which I think would actually be Centipedes, as they're more aggressive and carnivorous) which is such a creepy signal for it's about to attack. And any mission with the V-Rex's were some of my favourites to replay.

[@StarWarsJibaro]

Where can I buy this in the XboxLive store? Every time I go to check, it says that the game is not available :/

[@Kerzapple]

Omg finally someone is talking about this banger of a game

[@somesortofgeek]

Fun fact I actually played and BEAT this game this year.... it was fun! :D

[@somedude3360]

I feel like if they remade this game it would blow everyone’s mind.

[@iruleatgames]

You shouldn't compare the "visual clarity" of a single player game versus a multiplayer game, because they are designed with different goals in mind. In most single player games, it needs to be tilted towards the player, even if it's unbeknownst to them, due to the perceived lack of fairness if they continue to lose. Meanwhile, a skill like color and shade differentiation is extremely vital in a game like Rising Storm 2, which has enemies blending into their environment almost perfectly, not due to poor design, but quite literally the opposite. It is obvious that in the real world, an army's goal is to camouflage into their surroundings, and no game of this genre can claim to be realistic or immeserive in the slightest if it doesn't attempt to achieve this to some degree. Games should *not* be streamlined for people who lack the perception, or willingness to build upon it.

[@Warmachine69637]

I'm still fantasizing a remake of this game.

[@capcom49er48]

I still have nightmares about the centipedes sometimes 😂

[@andreworders7305]

In noticed you showing off how you can save red-shirts, does the game reward you in any way for keeping them alive?

[@rickylahey657]

I would love for this to be remade or expanded on for the new consoles and pc systems. They could make a real masterpiece of a single.player game or co-op

[@magicmanscott40k]

I beat this game all the time as a kid and watching this now is just awesome. For a ps2 game, it looks gorgeous. I remember this game cuz we got it from Giant Eagle and it was the only game Dad couldn't cheat on. If you used cheats, it disabled saving and loading, and made fun of you. You could still have infinite everything but you would have to play it one go. What a game.

[@dicnar]

That game was pretty cool, although the kong stages were a bit dull. i still have it on my shelf next to King kong special edition. I just love those Peter Jackson special features on those DVD's.

[@jocone-1]

One of my favorite games as a child, and even my first FPS game before i became a cod fan, thanks to world at war. I play this so many times. I first play it on the ps2, then the xbox, and finally kept the game on Gamecube. Such fond memories i have.

[@editorproductions5238]

man...i have been watching you from the beginning...(well...when you started making yu-gi-oh videos...to be fair it did take you 2-3 years to make your second video XD) and its just sad to see you get no views even though you are making some legit funny videos, i hope you keep at it, you are legit one of the only reasons i get out of bed in the morning.

[@jordancole3941]

I was 16 when this game came out. My little brother used to watch me play this for him 😂 I'm 29 now and let me tell y'all this game is still one of the hardest games I have ever played without a doubt.

[@interviolet6675]

PS2 lent very well to bleak games and peter jackson's artistic vision. It was one of the few games my dad ever played with me, after we watched the movie we rented this from blockbuster. I loved the cold green/blue grey aesthetic, it suited the rainy stylized look of the movie. This game was a fun and terrifying adventure, I love the movie too. As a kid it amazed me how cool the dinosaurs looked and Kong himself. I'll never forget the fun I had with this in the early 2000s

[@RUBIKGD]

This game always held a special place in my heart. I remember being really young playing with my older brother and we would always swap the controller whenever it got to the kong parts because I hated playing as the human at first. I eventually did end up playing through the whole game by myself and it made me happy as hell. I was so young it was the first game I had actually beaten by myself without asking my brother for help. Made me happy as hell seeing u made a video on this gem of a game.

[@theloshadow5574]

Back when I was a kid my Dad got his hands on an Xbox that had a crap ton of emulators that were also legit. (Like we got a Earthbound game in and it wasn't pirate version running on it.) and on the main screen away from the console emulators there was the lower graphics King Kong 2005 game. I loved to play it and completely rush through the entire game timing myself and it was honestly fun for a single player game. Played it a few months ago for nostalgia and boy did it feel great.

[@drd444]

Did no one else have the golden steel book version of this game? I had it and my parents eventually chucked it out when I stopped using my ps2. I always think about that steel book, it was special to me growing up. Wonder if it would be worth much now...

[@theoian]

I rented this from a blockbuster and booted it up when I was a kid, and I was so scared I couldn't get out of the first level because I remember having to go into a cave and I just couldn't make myself do it.

[@gerardoafw228]

The brachiosaurus part was not like the movies, but good god... It was terrifying. There was just an overwhelming sense of dread! I was always scared for the venatosaurus to show up again and then you see the dead brachio and the damn V-Rex appears out of nowhere. Shit, I love this game so much lol

[@codyreece7080]

The 360 version definitely looked next Gen at the time. Especially when you saw it on the kiosk. HD tvs were also so new. Great combo.

[@void9165]

It was amazing and creepy sometimes I remember playing on PSP

[@MrDorkbot]

I remember this game and loving it as a kid. Not related to the game but did you know the original king kong had a cut scene with a giant spider? apparently P.J recreated that scene using the same old technology they used in the 1920's. I always thought that was rather cool.

[@mickos_]

This game is excellent in every way. It took me forever to complete because coward is my middle name. The music, atmosphere and level design has never been done since in my opinion. The dinosaurs were everything i dreamt of.

[@GoatMaster93]

this actually made me really sad just how time goes by just how my childhood slowly going away

[@Y0G0FU]

a Full blown remake of this in the same quality of the recent Resident Evil 2 remake would be mind blowing :D

[@MediaManiac4926]

This game is underrated and overlooked as heck. People often say that Spiderman 2 is the best movie based game, but this game here gets my vote. It's that good.

[@merlethies8302]

I watched the movie and I play the game on PS2 and black and white mode for some reason. But it was still cool

[@demspookz8732]

Still to this day the scariest game I’ve ever played with the giant centipedes and horrifying V-Rex

[@bobcat24]

I wish this game also had an open world adventure mode to explore the whole island.

[@DrAiPatch]

You really should play the Real Steel game..... I never watched the movie but god damn that game is so hype.

[@JamyBot]

My copy of this game was so buggy back in the day... still good times

[@calebbrown7577]

I still have my PS2 version of this game. To this day I'll still get scared when fighting enemies as Jack. I'm curious about remaking this game, but game adaptations of movies are not really a thing anymore.

[@XELACRAFTS]

Sorry, the game is remembered fondly and framed up on my wall

[@supermutant963]

I too was grateful to play this masterpiece, rare for a movie based video game to be great, those fuckin centipedes 😰

[@Joaza998]

This game was my legit first FPS game, played both on the PS2 and DS.

[@recht_voor_zijn_raap5506]

Love this game. And that Metal Gear Solid 2 music in your video is a very nice touch.

[@DenisZaharenko]

Every once in a while I'm thinking about this game i used to play on the ps2 Cool to see it again

[@Nigmo]

I couldn't finish this game by myself because I was too scared when I was a kid

[@brokeoutlaw3195]

I loved this game so much, unfortunately my copy was damaged. So the game froze at random times and I never finished it.

[@andreworders7305]

The sound mixing doesn’t seem that loud, did you reduce it for the viewer’s sake.

[@alexwest2573]

I love it when they yell at at you “she’s a real man eater jack!”

[@MegaPieru3000]

Going to play this using a PS2 emulator. Or should I play the native PC version?

[@Jetstreamsamdidnothingwrong]

Vili Evans the pc version is mess use ps2 emulator

[@UltimaShadowX]

Man, I remember you telling me about this video back at MAGFest and I am so happy to finally see it out. Great work!

[@ScienceOnBears58]

I never forgot this game. It’s my childhood and I’ve been trying to fix my ps3 or find a ps2 to be able to play my copy again 😔

[@faceless2302]

Played through this so many times and had no idea there was an alternate ending

[@EmDub01]

Great video, I still love this game even more than the movie, and it was the first game I ever played that really scared me (but not enough to make me stop playing). I wanna push back on the brontosaurus section though. I always thought the scene in the film was cheesy and lacked any tension, just felt over-the-top and silly to me, whereas the game’s interpretation starts off beautiful and awe-inspiring and then gets tense as you try to avoid being stepped on during the stampede while you also light a path of torches and fend off velociraptors with a shotgun. Trying to multitask in such a unique environment (beautiful yet cramped valley with a stampede of huge dinosaurs) is really engaging and is one of my favorite parts of the game. Also, such an amazing soundtrack.

[@ThePhantomKerbecs]

Am i the only one who has this game for every single console it was released in, including the Collectors Edition?

[@supahgualtah]

Nice

[@LORDOFDRAGONS555]

The V Rex section as Jack will always scared the Shit out of me even now.

[@alyjahandujar1402]

I remember I was 3 years old when I first saw King Kong in theatres. It always struck me with amazement and emotion from the action to the emotional scenes with Kong himself. The music also made both the game and movie memorable. I’m glad people have love and respect for both the game and movie because they still hold up with nostalgia and awesomeness. Like you said in the video, a remaster like Destroy all humans would be amazing for this game

[@masonthorpe4992]

Me, my sister, and cousin love this god damn game and return to it probably every 2 years. It’s crazy how it’s still actually really good.

[@SDK2K9]

This is definitely one of the best movie licensed games. It's right up there with Spider-Man 2 and Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.

[@gravityawsome]

This game was scary af during the human parts.

[@Grudgebearer47]

Especially if you have a phobia of insects

[@faceless2302]

the crabs always freaked me out as a kid, hated the noises they made and how they kind of just appeared from beneath the water