Peter Jackson's King Kong (PS2) James & Mike Mondays 

"No bullets on backup" "Ah I'm dry!" "Nothing left!" "Three magazines on backup!" I swear, just pressing circle to check how much ammo you have left is so dramatic. It's great.

Too bad we didn't got to see most of the human levels, remember them to be pretty scary

I actually started playing this again like a week ago just for some nostalgia. This is one of the best movie-based games imo.

If anyone is interested in the game...Just letting you know, Kong has a move set, not just mashing X....he can grab, grab trees, and do other moves....They're just spamming the x button a shit ton.

This was the game most got for an easy 1000 achievement points on Xbox 360.

I'm kind of disappointed they didn't show enough Jack levels. The levels where you play as Jack are more fun than the levels where you play as Kong.

two magazines on backup!

One of the few movie games that is genuinely great. Very underrated.

"it's just a button masher" - because you make one out of it, like you do with all fighting games (or games that have any kind of hand-to-hand (paw to paw?) combat in it) And that's why you keep loosing.

I remember this being 50% fighting big centipedes, 40% getting chased by dinosaurs, and 10% playing as Kong.

"It just seems like it's a button masher." He says, as he dies for the sixth time using exactly that strategy.

Cannot wait to see Kong try that jaw snap move on Godzilla. SURPRISE!

I am really happy they brought up Beast Wars, where else could you see King Kong vs T-Rex and Optimus Prime vs Megatron at the same time? Definitely one of my favorite cartoons when I was a kid.

These guys play post 16 bit games like my grandma

i always joked that in the gamecube version king kong should have a donkey kong skin as an end game unlockable

Probably the most underrated game of the Ps2

Kong wasn't really eating people per say. He was just biting them then throwing them away

King Schlong: Starring Motherfucker Mike. WHen's that review cumming out?

I still have this game for my PS2. Certainly one of my favorite games. I remember the hardest level being running through the stampede of dinosaurs being chased by raptors. Great memories.

I love that you can hear the mashing buttons. Makes you feel like you are actually there with friends listening to them play.

I miss games like these. I can't remember the last game to come out that let me play as king kong. These simple games were awesome and I wish they would make more.

My experience with King Kong for the PS2: I Lost my memory card so I had to beat the game in one sitting. Spent all Saturday playing it. got to the last level and the game froze.

You know what's funny? This game actually got me into the FPS genre of games, believe it or not. I was able to get into a Call of Duty game on the PS3 like I've been playing the original games on the PS2 all this time. Oh yeah, this game does have an unlockable alternate ending where Kong is saved, but I forget how to do it. It's been too long.

Mike getting so gleeful about breaking the dinosaur jaws made me smile.

I was yelling at the screen that they need to tap the top button for Kongs rage mode!! Makes killing bosses so easy.

Pretty impressive for a PS2 game to be honest.

It would be cool to have a game like this with old Harryhausen-style animation.

The whole time Mike is thinking about getting back to playing Zelda lol

What I love the most about James & Mike Mondays is that it's always a surprise which game they are going to play. Keep up the good work on this show!

There's an alternate ending in the game you can unlock where Kong lives.

The FPS parts of the game were by far the best. They were extremely innovative.

Can someone please put James' "Yeah" in the Kongathon intro on a 10 hour loop?

I love how much Mike want's T-Rex neck-snapping.

This game was my shit back then! I still remembered when I screamed like a girl when the T-rex suddenly appeared and ate me. Oh boy, good times!

My favorite memory of this game was Adrian Brody shouting “I’m Dry!”

I freaking loved this game as a teen. In fact, I was thinking about dusting it off and playing it soon, and then I saw this video!

Why does James always ask "what do ppl think?" Does mike have him trapped in a closet and only takes him out for Monday's?

Hey, James, there's a whole 20-ish minute fictional documenatary detailing the natural history of Skull Island on one of the DVD bonus disks. It explains how the walls and such came to be, as well as a bunch more stuff. It's really interesting and well-thought-out. Also, Peter Jackson claims that the Kong in the film is more than one hundred years old by the time the movie happens.

I beat this game and I remembered loving it. The best parts were when your where in this temple area with nothing but a stick and you're fighting off these big ass spider things and the music kicks in and there are too many of them. Hella dope.

This game has an alternate ending where you can control a plane and shoot down the others and save Kong. That was my favorite part. Would also have liked to see you guys play a Jack level where the T-Rex is chasing you, those were some heart pounding levels.

anyone else cringing at how much they struggled with the T-Rex

I remember playing this at the Xbox 360 experience prior to the system launching, they were pushing it as one of the big games, it looked good .

"OUT OF AMMO! ALL I'M DRY! NOTHING'S LEFT! OH NO..." -Jack Trisco

This game was so amazing to me when i was like 11 or 12, i remember i used to love all those little cutscenes before you started a new area. Still probably the best game of a movie i've played.

#GetSomeSleepMike

definitely isnt a true button masher Kongs shoulder charge saves your life square + X also he has a grapple button -_-

Andy Serkis is every major mocap character in this century. He's also Caesar from the new Planet of the Apes trilogy.

Disappointed none of them knew this game had an alternate last level and ending where Kong in fact wins.... Lmao

I remember there being a demo for this on the original Xbox at a Toys R Us near me like a decade ago. All I remembered was the fucking V-rex level where he corners you outside the door and you're supposed to distract him. I was very inept at videogames then so I kept dying and everytime I would shit my pants.

"IT'S CINEMASSACRE'S KONGO-THONG!"

This is legit one of the best movie games I've ever played. It's awesome. Especially the FPS parts.

Actually there is an alternate ending for this game where Kong lives and you return him to the island. I played this game a lot as a kid and this brought back memories.

This is actually a damn good game, even for ps2 standards. It's too bad you guys weren't playing it properly; it has a lot more button variety than you give it credit for. In fact, it even includes an alternate ending in the extras menu where you get to see what happens when Kong wins.

10:17 This reminded me of Primal Rage, the old arcade game

"Optimus Prime was Kong" Oh, you mean Optimus Primal? I loved Beast Wars!

I remember when I was a little kid (around 8-10 years old), this and Spider-Man 2 were my favorite games to play on the Nintendo GameCube. Memories.

These poor guys just can't grasp games newer then 1995 it's hilarious

You guys need to play War of the Monsters on PS2, it's a badass Daikaiju fighting game not unlike the Godzilla games on PS2 GameCube and whatnot. Also there's a game based on King Kong lives on Famicom.

I kept saying to the screen "Square+X to dash and defeat the giant bat. Mash Triangle to enter Fury mode. Fucking press circle to pick up Ann."

I loved this game when I was a kid, still remember it like it was yesterday

It seems that James can only play old NES games. Because he's terrible at any 3D game.

Loved this game when I was a kid it was pretty nostalgic seeing you play it again reminds me of the wonderful time when I was kid 😊 and how much being an adult sucks! 😡

laughed so hard when they both started pounding their chests. 10/10 as far as jmm episode goes

Bought this one for my nephew recently for 360 since he loved the movie and game when he was young. It wasn't too bad watching him play it, though he knows it by heart that's why.

They need to play Crash Bandicoot for the PS1 next Monday.

This game was pretty awesome as a kid, but I liked playing as the human way more than Kong. The camera angles for the Kong levels were awful and it got super repitive and meandering very quickly; just climb up here, fight this, climb up here, fight this, over and over again. The human levels were much more fun. I liked being able to actually control the camera, plus they were fucking scary at times, especially the ones where you're just by yourself in the jungle and you'd hear a monster roar and your body would tense up in fear, like "oh shit, what's that noise?" It was very cinematic and creepy. I hope you guys played through the stampede level and the one where you sneak into Kong's lair because those levels were about as engaging and adventurous as they possibly get in games.

I played the hell out of this game when I was younger, loved every minute of it.

I really liked this game as a kid! Nice to experience some of it again.

Rhetorically speaking, try Far Cry 2 for a clean HUD experience. Even weapon inventory, map checking and such stay in the realms of gameplay. Superbly executed.

This was actually a really good licensed game.

I remember buying this game and going to see the movie in theaters on the same day . Loved the movie, loved the game.

Definitely was a fun game! The human parts were my favorite, although fighting with Kong was cool, the monster insects and scare factor made it more fun to be a human.

This is a really well made game. Looks great.

MUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNKKKKKEEEEEEYYYYYYY CHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Kind of impressed what the PS2 could do. I don’t remember it that capable with light, shadows and particle-effects.

Damn, hard to believe it's already been 14 years since the movie. I remember seeing it in theater.

Imagine these two smoking weed

Love your content guys but you should really step up your game on the technical aspect of things. The wrong aspect ratio for the game and composite video in 2017 are really getting old.

Silent Hill 2, 3, and 4 are probably the best looking ps2 games of all time.

I gotta say I love Mike's face in the thumbnail. Defiantly made me chuckle.

James is such a cinema guru, love it.

they should of played the 360 version of this game

I remember this game having an awesome soundtrack. Music that was not even on the movie but was pretty cool.

I like much this game, camera: fpp, no hud, no crosshair, just pure adventure! One of the best

I do not think Kong eats the woman if he did the bones would be a crunched mess where as in the movie the bones of the woman are is perfect shape. He does treat woman the same but being his size with out understanding of the human body they all die in time.

360 version looked amazing

You'd think peter Jackson being a film maker they would grasp the concept of good camera angles

Kong Skull Island scared the bejeezus out of me. The guy carried off by the pterodactyls is one of the sorriest I've ever felt for a fictional character.

Same with Bully, why don't you play the Superior Xbox 360 version?

Not one of Harambe's best games..

Every game is a button masher if james is playing

I remember being a kid and playing this game on my ps2, I played it again the other day and I still love it for me is the best movie game that was ever made maybe its the nostalgia talking but this goes down as one of the games in my collection I am most proud of owning, glad you did a video about it.

I'm suprised you guys didn't use the 360 version it looks better not a lot better but at least it's 720p better for capturing

why not the 360 version?

Is nobody going to mention how funny it is when Mike gets excited and says violent shit?

Back in the days, this was one of those games that was so much better on Xbox it almost made you feel like you already had a next-gen system..

In my opinion, this is actually a really good game but you should have played it on Xbox 360. I'm not sure why you'd choose to play the worst version of the game.

please no more mike and ryan

This was such a good game back then, I replayed it like 3-4 times

The ending discussion reminds me of the Revenge of The Sith game where it does give you a What if scenario if Anakin won the final fight. That was a pretty cool addition