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“king gorgeous” is more like it

Peter Jackson’s new King Kong trailer. Very pretty. The movie-based game from Ubisoft is being made by the same team that did the excellent but woefully unappreciated Beyond Good and Evil.

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  1. Pretty. Kong is smaller than I thought he'd be, though.

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  2. Yeah, though I like it that way. It will probably be a little easier to get the physics on him to look right, and it definitely keeps the beast more easy to relate to.

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  3. Okay, totally got a big stiffy. Peter Jackson should be worshipped as some sort of modern demigod/hero.

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  4. Blah. Sure it's pretty, but it's King Kong and i've seen it before and colorized it frame by frame. I wish he'd done the adaptation of the Lovely Bones that he'd been talking about. If it proves to be better than King Homer, than I might go see it.

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