It isn't quite as impressive looking as its console counterparts, and it's a short ride, but there's still a great time to be had with King Kong on the PC.
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This year's E3 was often referred to with words like "solid," "stable," and "consistent." The general perception going around was that it was a great show, but with a lot of good games instead of a handful of blockbusters overshadowing the rest. If the average show-goer was asked to pick out a few favorites, however,
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Curiously old geezers in blazers patrol the tiny theatre, shining their flashlights down the aisles in search of camcorders, cell phones or any other device that may be able to record what we are watching on the screen. Which, to begin with, is an interview with a newly skinny Peter Jackson, intercut with comments from Ubisoft's creative director, Beyond Good and Evil's Michel Ancel. We won't bore you with the details of that -- it a prelude to some of the coolest stuff we've seen at E3 -- but it's purpose is to underline the degree of cooperation between Wingnut Films., Universal Pictures and Ubisoft's creative team. Jackson's been down this road before, with Lord of the Rings, of course, where EA's pixel-perfect environments and character models made for a truly movie-like (if somewhat limited) experience. The old geezers are there because the wider world has seen nothing at all of King Kong, the movie, and the game gives away what is perhaps its biggest secret: the monkey. Having not seen King Kong -- the movie -- yet (it's due this holiday season) it's impossible to tell how much of the on-screen magic made it into this game, but judging by the demo, quite a bit.
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