Skull Island: Rise of Kong is newly released on Steam and is currently being made fun of on the net.
Go on a quest to avenge the death of your parents at the hands of the ultimate alpha predator: Gaw.
Na? Does that have your fingers tingling yet? With this sentence introduces (the Steam description) of the new action adventure Skull Island: Rise of Kong, in which you fight as a massive ape against equally massive prehistoric creatures. So dinos, or giant crabs and sandworms.
Personally, I’m already unsure whether Gaw is the name of the alpha predator, or a spontaneous exclamation. Gaw. In any case, Rise of Kong is causing a lot of laughter on the Internet right now. The game costs 40 Euros, but looks like a recovered relic from the PS2 era. But just take a look for yourself:
Actual cutscene
DO NOT BUY THE NEW KING KONG GAME. IT IS A COMPLETE SCAM pic.twitter.com/6hiCWOSnNc
– Rick (@RickDaSquirrel) October 16, 2023
The worst game of the year?
Maybe we are doing the PS2 a bit of an injustice. After all, a King Kong game was released for this console that looks far better than Rise of Kong. The idea behind it doesn’t sound so lame. As a young King Kong you march across the legendary island, fight against other beasts and discover some secrets. The final goal is, of course, to rule over the island as the Monkey King. You know the rest of the story.
But the development studio IguanaBee doesn’t really implement this premise impressively. Not only is the game graphically daunting, but also in terms of gameplay it makes people smile:
I take back every bad thing I said about Godzilla PS4.@GameMillEnt King Kong deserves better than whatever this is supposed to be. pic.twitter.com/bDoHfEnH0g
– Rick (@RickDaSquirrel) October 16, 2023
In the comments often (a comparison to Gollum is drawn), which caused heaps of disappointment in the middle of the year. With Gollum, however, people had also hoped for something more than in this case.
By the way, Rise of Kong is not an isolated case. The game comes from publisher GameMill Entertainment, which is notorious for turning all sorts of reasonably well-known licenses into third-rate games at best.
While this occasionally results in something quite useful, like Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, more often it includes games like Cobra Kai or, most recently, Avatar: Quest for Balance, which even broke colleague Steffi’s heart. Gaw!
What do you think of the new King Kong game? Does the idea behind it sound exciting to you, or do you think the whole package is baloney? Have you even bought Skull Island and surprisingly had fun with it? If so, what do you like so much about it? Love to post your thoughts on it in the comments!
