{"id":255179,"date":"2023-10-18T12:27:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T16:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=310781"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:55:57","slug":"gollum-has-been-avoided-being-the-worst-game-of-the-year-thanks-to-king-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/gollum-has-been-avoided-being-the-worst-game-of-the-year-thanks-to-king-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you think &#8216;Gollum&#8217; is a horrible game? Now there is one that surpasses it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the same year that &#8216;Spider-man 2&#8217; demonstrated that games based on franchises can deliver incredible experiences, two games have also been released that take us back to worse times, when movie-based video games were nothing short of a (well-deserved) joke. Just a few months ago, we would have said that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/until-gollum-had-problems-sorry-message-was-written-with-chatgpt\" title=\"\">Gollum<\/a> was, hands down, the worst game of the year due to its crude mechanics and dreadful gameplay. <strong>But it got lucky. It has found itself a new competitor\u2026 even more embarrassing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"King Kong\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/245acc0e-96d7-11e6-ad6e-00163ed833e7\/3045384465\/peter-jackson-s-king-kong-logo.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">King Kong<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/peter-jacksons-king-kong.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/peter-jacksons-king-kong.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The King of Boo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had gone more than twenty years without a game featuring the giant ape, since Peter Jackson&#8217;s adaptation of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/you-missed-king-kong-we-have-good-news\" title=\"\">King Kong<\/a>, which was quite decent (unless you played it on Nintendo DS, where it was an unbearable mess). We were all convinced that with the arrival of the Monsterverse and the battle against Godzilla, we would get more games featuring the giant ape. <strong>But in the case of &#8216;Skull Island: Rise of Kong,&#8217; we would have been better off without the hype<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a video on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/already-two-days-twitter-responded\" title=\"\">Twitter<\/a> that drew attention to the game&#8217;s cinematics, which showed a statically rendered dinosaur attack they had somehow forgotten to animate: this isn&#8217;t going to be good. There&#8217;s just no way it could be\u2026 <strong>And the gameplay doesn&#8217;t help either, offering a third-person exploration game with ugly designs<\/strong> that turned into a bland experience with no incentives whatsoever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Actual cutscene<br><br>DO NOT BUY THE NEW KING KONG GAME. IT IS A COMPLETE SCAM <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6hiCWOSnNc\">pic.twitter.com\/6hiCWOSnNc<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rick (@RickDaSquirrel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RickDaSquirrel\/status\/1714014780346806395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a gigantic island filled with enemies to battle, Kong always encounters the same foes in the same places. It&#8217;s quite a coincidence. Moreover, <strong>sound, image, and graphics bugs are a daily occurrence, turning the return to Skull Island <\/strong>into an experience we wish we hadn&#8217;t lived through. The distributors are, as we might have imagined, Gamemill, experts in doing things cheaply, quickly\u2026 and poorly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are responsible for &#8216;Big Rigs,&#8217; one of the games famous for having the most bugs in gaming history, but they have also handled generic Nickelodeon titles and versions of &#8216;Zombieland,&#8217; &#8216;Cobra Kai,&#8217; or &#8216;G.I. 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