Kong: Survivor Instinct trailer shows the worst of the MonsterVerse
The MonsterVerse — Legendary Studios’ series of giant monster movies featuring Godzilla, King Kong and other famous movie creatures — is making its video game debut (plus Some web and mobile games), and it has the same feel as the movies: there are fewer monsters but there are so many people that no one cares. Today, PlayStation has released a trailer Kong: Survivor InstinctA new action platformer from Polish developer 7Levels in collaboration with Legendary. “Immediately after the events” godzilla vs kong, Kong: Survivor Instinct It puts you in the role of a survivor of a recent demon attack who must navigate his destroyed town in search of his lost daughter. According to the trailer, there's a lot of climbing, jumping and sprinting, avoiding some rampaging fellow survivors, escaping a giant rampaging spider, and King Kong makes a few appearances here and there. Kong: Survivor Instinct It will be available in late 2024 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam, and you can add it to your wishlist on all platforms right now. You can check out the trailer below:
Well, if nothing else, I'll have to give it up Kong: Survivor Instinct Credit for accurately representing Legendary's boring, needlessly pretentious, aggressively unsatisfying MonsterVerse. On what planet would anyone involved in developing this game have thought that people would want to play a King Kong game as a human? Have you ever played one Rampage And wish you were one of those people running through the buildings destroyed by George, Lizzie, and the Wolf? Of course not, because that sucks. You wanted to be your favorite monster, smashing everything in sight and fighting off the small army that thinks it can stop you. But this is Legendary's MonsterVerse, a franchise built on consistently denying monster movie audiences the satisfaction they crave. Gareth Edwards' godzilla He took perverse pleasure in stepping away from the action to show Aaron Taylor-Johnson studying cave walls or watching his son eat chicken nuggets. Godzilla: King of the Monsters Even worse, giving us a glimpse of Godzilla, Rodan, and Mothra fighting Ghidorah in majestic scenes before they leave them behind so Kyle Chandler can drive his kids around in his pickup truck. At least Godzilla wasted those useless new creatures; King of the Monsters threw in Ghidorah, Toho's final foe. Interestingly, the King Kong movies are better, featuring plenty of giant ape antics, albeit with shoddy storylines and flat, dull characters. (Kong: Skull Island (The movie wasted some wonderful actors, and only Samuel L. Jackson was given a chance to work.)
Kong: Survivor Instinct It seems to have broken that trend, as the video game puts King Kong and his city-ravaging opponents to the side, so that you can play a father who keeps jumping from rooftop to rooftop in search of his daughter. The glimpses of gameplay in the trailer seem as dull as dishwashing water, so much so that I wouldn't even call it basic. It's simply a slow progression of what appears to be eventless action (in the loosest sense of the word), something you'd do to kill time in a dentist's waiting room rather than a fun activity on the weekend. Even the battles with whoever you're fighting are slow and don't seem to have any danger or urgency to them. Those fleeting glimpses of King Kong and the giant spider are almost insulting because they're what this game should have been, convincing you that you'll never know the fun of controlling cinema's most beloved ape (sorry, Caesar) as he fights ferocious creatures and knocks down buildings. When I first saw the trailer, I was ready to say, “This is better than the other King Kong games that have come out recently,” but at least in that game, you get to play as King Kong.
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