YMMV / Peter Jackson's King Kong

• Awesome Music: The game has rather intense and epic music, particularly for the V. rex battles.
• Catharsis Factor: For most of the game, you'll be very aware of how fragile you are and the need to survive. So when you have the chance to turn the tables in any way, it's immensely satisfying.
  • Killing anything with fire.
  • Getting the Thompson machine gun for the first time, and turning the tables on the Venatosauruses.
  • After spending so much of the game struggling to survive as Jack and fearing the next creature's attack, it becomes immensely satisfying to turn the tables on everything as Kong (and in the case of the V. rexes, throwdown with them toe-to-toe since you can't kill the adults when playing as Jack).
• Demonic Spiders: The actual arthropods in this game aren't too bad (due to their weakness to spears and low health), but the Venatosaurus saevidicus are straight examples without guns; they're fast, they can jump, and they can take quite a few spears before dying.
• Goddamned Bats: Terapusmordax are almost a literal example. Even the largest non-Queens go down fairly easily, but there are a lot of them throughout the game. The Venatosaurus impavidus also count; they go down pretty easily, but attack in groups.
• Heartwarming Moment: The alternate ending where Kong is saved and returned back to his island.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: The alternate ending where Kong is saved and returns to his island. More than a decade later, we would see a movie where he is pulled from his home, but manages to find a new one.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The first boss of the game is a Giant Enemy Crab which you must shoot in its weak point to deal massive damage, one year before Genji: Days of the Blade popularized the meme.
• Moment of Awesome: Jack and Captain Englehorn saving Kong in the alternate ending.
• Narm: Hayes' death in the game is not by the log scene, but instead trying to save Ann from Kong - only to get trampled by a V. Rex, in a moment that's got no actual sound to the stomp as he just limply flips forwards and ragdolls across the ground.
• No Problem with Licensed Games: Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie is generally thought to be one of the better licensed games out there. It helped that it was designed by famed French video game creator Michel Ancel.
• Porting Disaster: The Windows version was based on the sixth-generation console releases instead of the Xbox 360 version, not to mention that it also used the infamous StarForce copy protection system. There was however an enhanced release of the game subtitled Gamers Edition which came bundled with certain graphics cards. The Gamers Edition release would later be made available for a time as the High-Res Edition on Amazon and other digital storefronts.
• The Problem with Licensed Games: The Nintendo DS version of the game had few, if any of the positives of the console versions, graphics that are ugly even by the standards of an earlier DS release, bad controls and broken mechanics.
• Tear Jerker: Anne doesn't race up the Empire State Building to save Kong. Instead, she meets him in the street and, when he holds out his hand for her, she willingly steps in to his palm, showing her trust in him and his protection of her.
• That One Boss: The V. rexes when playing as Jack. You can only kill the juveniles, and the adults are terrifyingly fast when they want to be if you don't attack them to slow them down. They're no slouches when playing as Kong either.
• That One Level: The Brontosaurus level has you following the aforementioned creatures to get fire to burn the thorn bushes blocking your means of progressing through all while being chased and attacked by Venatosauruses along with very limited ammo you are given which makes this level quite hard and scary to most. You can also be squashed by the feet of the Brontosaurus.

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