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As the mecha activated, with Serizawa controlling it via a neural link, Simmons unleashed a Skullcrawler, codenamed "Number 10," into the chamber as a test subject. Number 10 immediately set its sights on the trio.

The Skullcrawler lunged at Madison as she dropped prone, but Mechagodzilla seized it, held it by its arms, and sliced it in half with its proton scream before powering down.

Madison realizes that Mechagodzilla is the reason Godzilla attacked the facilities; Apex is trying to replace him. Godzilla, upon sensing Mechagodzilla's activation, became alerted to its presence and began swimming toward Hong Kong.

Godzilla surfaced from under a bridge, destroying it before coming ashore. Upon reaching the heart of the city, Godzilla charged and fired his atomic breath directly at the ground. Simmons realized that Godzilla was responding to the energy in the Hollow Earth activating, meaning the team had found its objective. Godzilla's atomic breath blasted directly into the temple within the Hollow Earth where Kong and the Monarch and Apex teams were. Godzilla roared into the crater he had opened and was answered by Kong.

Kong grabbed the axe he had found within the temple and jumped into the crater, climbing all the way to Hong Kong. Kong roared at Godzilla, who answered back. After exchanging taunts, Kong leaped at Godzilla and swung his axe at him. Godzilla ducked, causing the axe to become lodged in a building, then clamped his jaws onto Kong's neck and pulled him away. Kong freed himself, while Godzilla tried to fire his atomic breath.

Kong delivered a series of blows to interrupt Godzilla's atomic breath, eventually shoving the handle of his axe into Godzilla's mouth. Godzilla fired his atomic breath again, but the beam was absorbed by Kong's axe. Godzilla then tackled Kong, who buried the axe into Godzilla's leg. Godzilla shoved Kong into the water, then tore out the axe with his jaws before throwing it into another building. He fired his atomic breath, prompting Kong to run through the city trying to avoid it.

Kong leaped from a skyscraper, but was struck in midair by the atomic breath and knocked to the ground. Kong got back up and climbed another skyscraper, tearing the top off of it and using it as a shield to block Godzilla's atomic breath. Kong retrieved his axe from the building and leaped off as Godzilla fired his atomic breath, absorbing the energy with his axe before striking Godzilla and causing a shockwave that knocked both monsters down.

Godzilla soon got back to his feet, then dropped onto all fours, looking for Kong. Kong perched himself on a building, then threw a crane at another building to distract Godzilla.

Kong then jumped onto Godzilla's back and forced him face-first into a building. Enraged, Godzilla struggled to get Kong off of him, eventually biting Kong's hand, and flinging him to the ground.

Godzilla tried to stomp on Kong, who rolled out of the way. Godzilla then bit down on Kong's arm and threw him into a building, dislocating his shoulder.

Godzilla knocked Kong to the ground, then again dropped onto all fours and began snapping at Kong's feet with his jaws. Kong kicked at Godzilla to keep him at bay, but Godzilla leaped onto Kong and tore through his chest with his claws, then stomped on his chest.

Kong punched Godzilla in the knee, making him roar in pain before stomping on Kong's chest even harder. Kong weakly grabbed at Godzilla's leg, after which Godzilla roared angrily in his face. Kong answered with a defiant roar of his own, showing he would not submit, which earned him his respect. Godzilla lifted his foot off of Kong and began walking away, with Kong weakly trying to get to his feet before collapsing and passing out. In the meantime, Apex had managed to copy the energy source from the Hollow Earth and infuse it into Mechagodzilla.

However, this caused King Ghidorah's consciousness to take over the machine, as Ghidorah's left head's skull was being used as a neural interface for it. The rogue Mechagodzilla killed Simmons and then Serizawa before freeing itself from under Victoria Peak with its proton scream.

Mechagodzilla obliterated what remained of Hong Kong with the proton scream before Godzilla roared at it. Mechagodzilla charged at its organic counterpart, unleashing a barrage of missiles at him. Mechagodzilla used its jet boosters to outmaneuver Godzilla, then repeatedly slammed him into multiple buildings. Godzilla fired his atomic breath, but Mechagodzilla countered with its proton scream, overpowering Godzilla, blasting him to the ground and severely burning his chest.

Mechagodzilla continued to drag Godzilla through the city, then prepared to finish him off by firing its proton scream into his mouth. Jia signed to Kong that Godzilla was not the enemy and pointed out that Mechagodzilla was the true enemy.

Kong sprung into action, jumping onto Mechagodzilla's back as it was about to deliver the killing blow and forcing it to fire its proton scream into the sky. Godzilla saw this and got back up, grabbing Mechagodzilla by the arm.

Kong grabbed its other arm and the two Titans pulled Mechagodzilla through a building. The three monsters continued battling, with Mechagodzilla tossing Kong aside and focusing its onslaught on Godzilla. It punched Godzilla and then used its jet boosters to push him into a building. It prepared to finish Godzilla with its tail before Kong reentered the battle with his axe and swung it repeatedly at Mechagodzilla.

Mechagodzilla pinned Kong against a building and lashed its spinning spike-tipped tail in his face. Kong grabbed its tail and attempted to restrain it. After failing to hack into Mechagodzilla's control console, Josh Valentine poured Bernie Hayes' flask of alcohol onto the console, causing it to spark and momentarily impede the mecha.

Seizing the opportunity, Godzilla fired his atomic breath at Kong's axe, charging it. Kong swung the axe and severed Mechagodzilla's tail, then both of its arms, and then its leg. Mechagodzilla charged one final proton scream before Kong brought the axe down on its neck then tore its head off. Kong let out a triumphant roar as he held up the mecha's head and threw it down. After the vicious battle with Mechagodzilla, Godzilla roared at Kong, prompting him to pick up his axe and prepare for battle again.

But as Godzilla approached, Kong relented and dropped the axe. Godzilla roared in acknowledgment before turning toward the sea and disappearing beneath the waves. The MonsterVerse Godzilla retains the character's trademark atomic breath. While he seems to use it as a weapon of last resort rather than as his primary weapon in his battle with the MUTOs , he uses it more frequently in his battles with King Ghidorah and Kong. When Godzilla charges his atomic breath, he draws energy from his bio-nuclear circulatory system which activates when he is threatened.

This triggers a neutron flux that manifests as a blue glow which slowly moves from the tip of his tail up his protective dorsal fins , which serve as energy reserves for his atomic power. In addition to serving as a weapon, Godzilla's atomic breath can be utilized as a "dominance display," [9] while he also uses the bluish glow which emanates from his dorsal fins as an intimidation display. When he fires his breath directly into the female MUTO's mouth, it decapitates and kills her almost instantly.

After their battle in Boston, Godzilla ultimately incinerates Ghidorah's last head by holding it in his mouth while firing his atomic breath. Kong , Godzilla used his atomic breath to dig through the surface of the Earth in Hong Kong straight toward the Hollow Earth in seemingly a couple of minutes. When Godzilla charged his atomic breath to drill into the Hollow Earth, his body displayed more bioluminescence than usual.

It appears that once Godzilla has fully charged his atomic breath, he can fire it multiple times, the best example being when he fires it multiple times in rapid succession during his battle with Kong in Hong Kong. Kong's axe, which seemingly used the dorsal plate of another member of Godzilla's species as its blade, was able to absorb Godzilla's atomic breath and release its stored energy upon impact. Godzilla's ray was also overpowered by Mechagodzilla 's proton scream in a beam lock when the mecha amplified its beam.

Godzilla vs. Kong: The Official Movie Novelization suggests that the atomic breath Godzilla used in the beam lock with Mechagodzilla was the same one he used to drill into the Hollow Earth. In an early screenplay for the film, the female MUTO's "magnetism" prevents Godzilla from using his atomic breath just before he can unleash it, causing the "ignition current in his throat" to "short-circuit. Kong implies that Godzilla is the only member of his species that can fire the atomic breath, which was granted after absorbing the unique energy in the Hollow Earth.

The Iwi described this as "[eating] a star" and "throw[ing] rays of the star from his mouth and burn[ing] things. Godzilla possesses a symbiotic bond with Mothra.

The two are able to communicate using sonar over great distances, with Mothra using this ability to locate Godzilla and lead Monarch to his location to revive him.

After King Ghidorah disintegrates Mothra with his gravity beams, her life energy rains down into the wounded Godzilla, imbuing him with increased power that causes his skin to crack and glow orange while emitting incredibly intense heat. In this empowered state, known as Burning Godzilla, Godzilla can utilize his powerful incendiary nuclear pulse, which manifests in the shape of Mothra's wings and makes the sound of her roar.

The narration in Godzilla Dominion states that Godzilla views the world's oceans as "an extension of himself"; he quickly becomes aware of any disturbances or imbalances and reacts accordingly.

Following Mothra 's sacrifice in Godzilla: King of the Monsters , he discovered that this ability now extended to the entire planet, and used it to begin searching for a new home.

His heightened senses also allowed him to easily spot a submerged nuclear weapon that had drawn the attention of Scylla and continue his fight with Tiamat after she blinded him by spewing a yellow mist from her jaws. This is further demonstrated in Godzilla vs. Kong , as his heightened senses allowed him to locate and target numerous Apex Cybernetics facilities that were constructing Mechagodzilla.

It also helped him locate Kong in the Tasman Sea, although the Titan was being transported outside of his territorial waters, and in the Hollow Earth beneath Hong Kong.

In Godzilla Dominion , before Godzilla could rest after reclaiming one of his old lairs from Tiamat , he commanded the other Titans that were roaming all over the planet to rest as well.

This is corroborated by Mark Russell in Godzilla vs. Kong: The Official Movie Novelization , where he states that Godzilla used some sort of silent call to make the other Titans rest. He vented off the accumulating nuclear energy coming from his broken dorsal plates and turned it into a massive one-time blast. This pulse launches MUTO Prime into the air and renders it helpless enough for Godzilla to finish it off by crushing its head.

The attack is extremely draining to Godzilla, and he only uses it out of complete desperation. Godzilla utilizes a more powerful version of the attack in his final battle with King Ghidorah in Boston. After absorbing Mothra's energy following her death in addition to the nuclear energy already absorbed from a thermonuclear explosion, Godzilla's nuclear power builds to the point his skin begins to crack and glow bright orange, giving off heat intense enough to melt everything around him, a state called Burning Godzilla.

In this state, Godzilla approaches Ghidorah and fires forth an incredibly powerful nuclear pulse that takes the shape of Mothra's wings and emits the sound of her roar.

The first nuclear pulse is sufficient to shred both of Ghidorah's wings, and Godzilla follows up with a second that incinerates both Ghidorah's right and left heads. Godzilla then finishes Ghidorah by stomping down on his chest and releasing his accumulated nuclear power in a massive explosion. The MonsterVerse Godzilla displays an impressive degree of durability.

He is shown to have survived the detonation of Castle Bravo , a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb, while directly next to the bomb in He also survived the impact of the meteor that caused the Permian-Triassic extinction event. When blasted by missiles and artillery by the United States military, Godzilla reacts but appears unharmed until one missile strikes him directly in the gills, causing him to reel back in pain and plow through the Golden Gate Bridge.

Godzilla survives his battle against both MUTOs with little visible physical injury, and despite collapsing from exhaustion awakens hours later and walks back into the ocean completely unharmed. According to Monarch, Godzilla's dorsal fins serve a "protective" function, [9] meaning that they may act as a sort of sharp armoring meant to stab enemies that touch them.

This function has not yet been demonstrated in any of Godzilla's observed battles, though he did use his dorsal plates to destroy a ship in Godzilla vs. Kong by slicing it while he was swimming.

In Godzilla: King of the Monsters , Godzilla survives several vicious attacks from King Ghidorah, including several strikes from his powerful gravity beams, being strangled by his necks, and being dropped from extremely high in the air to the ground below. However, while these attacks are not able to kill Godzilla, they all visibly injure him and the last one nearly killed him before Mothra intervened.

Godzilla's durability is supplemented by the radiation he absorbs. After being severely weakened by the Oxygen Destroyer , Godzilla retreats to his lair where he rests and feeds on the surrounding radiation.

Monarch can accelerate this process by detonating a thermonuclear warhead right next to Godzilla while he rests. Not only does he survive the explosion unharmed, but he absorbs the radiation and is instantly revitalized.

After Godzilla is nearly killed when Ghidorah drops him from the sky, he is revived by Mothra's energy. This not only allows him to get back to his feet, but it also overloads him with nuclear power to the point he can emit nuclear pulses that ultimately destroy Ghidorah. In this powered-up state, Godzilla's durability is enhanced, rendering him able to withstand Ghidorah's gravity beams with no visible harm at all and also to survive the explosion produced when the nuclear energy within his body reaches critical mass.

Kong , Godzilla recovered quickly from a powerful punch thrown by Kong during their first battle. In their second fight in Hong Kong, Godzilla was unfazed when Kong sunk his axe into his thigh, removing it with his jaws and throwing it into a building. A blow to the face from the axe felled him after he powered it up with his atomic breath, giving Kong time to set up a trap. According to Greg Keyes, the author of the film's novelization , the script for the film did not state whether the strike knocked out Godzilla or stunned him; in the book, he was only stunned.

Even so, he retained enough strength to battle alongside Kong when the Titan came to his aid. While relying less on his atomic breath than previous incarnations, the MonsterVerse Godzilla makes greater use of his physical strength and combat skills when fighting.

Godzilla is able to defeat the male MUTO in each encounter, due to his size advantage. Godzilla is also able to overpower the larger female MUTO when he confronts her, although he does experience difficulty when trying to fight them both at once.

He also at one point pushes the female MUTO to the ground and steps on her chest to pin her down, which could have allowed him to finish her had the male not intervened. Godzilla finally kills the female MUTO by grabbing her from behind when she is distracted and prying her jaws apart so he can fire his atomic breath down her throat.

In one of his battles with MUTO Prime , Godzilla manages to force the creature off of him by slashing it in the head with his claws, visibly drawing blood. He was also able to lift the ,ton MUTO Prime onto his back to unleash a nuclear pulse from his shattered dorsal plates. The impact was so strong, one of the MUTO's limbs fell off. He used his tail again to knock back King Ghidorah during the battle in Boston, hitting his opponent with enough power to stagger him.

It was also powerful enough to destroy three warships escorting Kong with ease. Godzilla's tail is also shown to be prehensile, as when he attempted to drown Kong , he wrapped his tail around his opponent. Godzilla's tail is also muscular enough that Kong could not escape while coiled in it and only got free when Godzilla was distracted by depth charges, allowing Kong to swim back to the surface while Godzilla's grip was released.

In Godzilla Dominion , his tail is strong enough to send Scylla bouncing across the ocean like a stone skipping on water. Godzilla uses his physical strength during his battles with King Ghidorah as well. In their first battle in Antarctica , Godzilla grabs one of Ghidorah's heads and slams it into the Outpost 32 building. Godzilla easily overpowers Ghidorah in their underwater fight in Mexico, dragging him below the surface and managing to bite down on and tear off his left head.

Had the Oxygen Destroyer never been used, Godzilla would have likely successfully defeated Ghidorah. In their final battle, Godzilla ran at miles per hour when he charged at Ghidorah and collided with him. As demonstrated in Godzilla vs. Kong , Godzilla's dorsal plates can also be used for attack, as they were capable of cutting through a ship when he swam through it.

During his first fight with Kong, a single swipe of Godzilla's claws was sufficient to knock him off his feet. In their rematch in Hong Kong , Godzilla tackled Kong into the nearby harbor. The extent of Godzilla's savagery is shown when he bit down on Kong's hand and threw him across the city, dislocating his shoulder in the process. Godzilla also once again displayed considerable speed and agility for his size, angrily charging toward the injured Kong, knocking him down with his tail, crawling towards him on all fours, and leaping onto him before lacerating and stomping on his chest.

When he fought Mechagodzilla , Godzilla briefly matched his mechanical duplicate in strength by pushing him back after charging at the mecha and managed to slam it through a nearby building with assistance from Kong.

The MonsterVerse Godzilla possesses gills that close whenever he comes onto land. He also possesses amphibious lungs, allowing him to breathe both underwater and on land. According to Monarch, Godzilla's swimming speed is 40 knots, but he's capable of reaching speeds exceeding 60 knots. He propels his massive body by undulating his tail like a crocodile.

Godzilla is capable of swimming extremely quickly and eluding the United States Navy despite his size. Thanks to his aquatic adaptations, Godzilla is an extremely powerful combatant underwater. He was able to overpower the much larger King Ghidorah underwater and tear off one of his heads, and likely would have defeated him if not for the Oxygen Destroyer. Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization notes that Godzilla has come to recognize his surroundings based on sounds and has memorized the very contours of the continents around him.

Kong , Godzilla utilizes his amphibiousness when attacking the fleet escorting Kong to the Hollow Earth, slicing through the ships with his dorsal plates and destroying a group of them with his tail. Additionally, while Kong managed to hold his own against Godzilla underwater, the larger Titan eventually overpowered him and was able to swim while towing Kong behind him with his tail.

When he is unable to overpower both MUTOs at the same time, he gradually learns their weaknesses and attack patterns after repeated clashes with them. After being repeatedly flanked by the male MUTO, Godzilla anticipates his attack and allows the MUTO to approach him before swinging his tail and impaling him on a building.

After his atomic breath proves effective against the female MUTO, Godzilla sneaks up on her while she is going after Ford Brody and pulls her jaws apart, then fires his atomic breath into her mouth and kills her. Godzilla uses his surroundings to his advantage, shown when he uses buildings to shove or smash his enemies.

The MonsterVerse Godzilla also appears to avoid unnecessary conflict, as he completely ignores the military's attacks and does not at any point retaliate, even after being visibly hurt by a missile striking his gills. In Godzilla: King of the Monsters , Godzilla continues to demonstrate considerable intelligence. He continues to avoid unnecessary conflict with humans, preferring to intimidate them when they encounter him at Monarch 's Castle Bravo base.

During his second fight with King Ghidorah in Mexico , he exploits his advantage when fighting underwater by dragging Ghidorah under the surface and keeping him submerged. Godzilla manages to rip one of Ghidorah's heads off and would have most likely won using this tactic if not for the use of the Oxygen Destroyer.

After being revitalized by a nuclear detonation, Godzilla seems to acknowledge the humans observing him from a nearby submarine, particularly Mark Russell , before heading off to confront Ghidorah in Boston.

After beating Ghidorah, Godzilla acknowledges the other Titan's submission without any further conflict. Kong , Godzilla singles out Apex Cybernetics facilities to destroy while searching for Mechagodzilla , showcasing that he is capable of pinpointing exact groups of people that represent a threat to him.

This is further demonstrated when the fleet escorting Kong opens fire on Godzilla to defend the primate Titan, causing Godzilla to attack it out of retaliation before battling Kong. However, he continues to avoid unnecessary conflict, as showcased when he ceases his assault once the fleet decides to "play dead" by shutting off their power, making Godzilla believe it is no longer a threat and leave the area. This is further demonstrated with his rematch with Kong in Hong Kong when Godzilla manages to overpower his rival but spares his life before leaving to continue searching for Mechagodzilla.

During the following fight, he recognizes Kong as an ally and in turn assists him by tag-teaming Mechagodzilla and then powering Kong's axe with his atomic breath to deliver the killing blow against the mechanical Titan. After their battle, Godzilla acknowledges Kong and returns to the ocean without further conflict once again. Godzilla feeds on radiation and can absorb it in a variety of ways.

Monarch describes him as "bio-atomic", along with the MUTOs. In the modern-day, Godzilla is capable of absorbing radiation through man-made sources such as nuclear reactors and thermonuclear weapons. Godzilla can survive seemingly indefinitely by remaining in a hibernation-like state feeding on the surrounding radiation within his underwater lair, and this radiation allows him to continuously grow and recover from existing injuries. Godzilla: King of the Monsters director Michael Dougherty compared this process to "deer or elk antlers.

Or your own hair. Godzilla's healing process is accelerated when he is exposed to a nuclear blast at point-blank range, completely healing and revitalizing him and granting him a huge boost of internal nuclear power.

Godzilla also absorbs energy from Mothra after she is killed by King Ghidorah 's gravity beams. In combination with the energy he already absorbed from the nuclear blast, this charges Godzilla's internal power to the point his skin cracks and emits a bright orange glow as he reaches a state known as Burning Godzilla.

Godzilla becomes so superheated in this state that he melts everything around him, and emits the excess energy through a series of powerful nuclear pulses that obliterate King Ghidorah.

The MonsterVerse Godzilla, while a formidable opponent, demonstrates a few weaknesses. The gills on his neck appear to be a weak point, shown when he reels back in pain after being struck directly in the gills by a shot fired from a tank on the Golden Gate Bridge. Godzilla was also easily overwhelmed when both MUTOs attacked at once, being unable to fight the female head-on and anticipate the male's attacks at the same time.

His endurance is also not limitless, as he suffers from apparent exhaustion multiple times during his fights with the MUTOs, King Ghidorah , and Mechagodzilla. After killing the male MUTO, Godzilla pauses to breathe, only to be pinned under a collapsing skyscraper. After killing the female, Godzilla roars victoriously before collapsing to the ground and passing out. After King Ghidorah stuns him by firing lightning from his wings, Godzilla shows visible exhaustion as he started going into "critical mass.

Godzilla can also be outmatched in one-on-one combat by an enemy comparable or superior to him in size and strength, as observed in his encounters with MUTO Prime , King Ghidorah, and Mechagodzilla. MUTO Prime relies on its powerful forelimbs to stun Godzilla with a well-timed punch to the face, while also successfully drawing blood from him with the sharp claws on its smaller additional arms.

MUTO Prime's sonic roar is also powerful enough to completely shatter his dorsal fins. MUTO Prime's speed allows it to escape before Godzilla can react, meaning MUTO Prime gradually weakens Godzilla over several encounters by attacking him and retreating before it sustains any damage itself.

Godzilla is nearly infected by MUTO Prime's parasitic spores twice and only manages to survive and win their final battle in Montana due to Monarch's intervention. Godzilla is visibly hurt by Ghidorah's gravity beams and is outmatched against him in physical combat on several occasions.

Ghidorah is strong enough to restrain Godzilla with his three heads and can pin him to the ground or lift him into the air. During his battle with Mechagodzilla, Godzilla was consistently outmaneuvered and overpowered by his mechanical counterpart, only avoiding death in a fashion similar to the female MUTO thanks to Kong's interference.

While Godzilla proved himself superior to Kong in terms of sheer strength and durability, he was repeatedly outmaneuvered by the smaller Titan and was tricked by Kong when he threw a crane to distract him before pouncing on his larger rival from behind. He was also injured by Kong's axe when he swung it into his leg, drawing blood. Godzilla is susceptible to the Oxygen Destroyer , which drained most of his radiation, lowering his vital signs and forcing him to retreat back to his lair to recover.

In this freeware game released shortly before the film debuted in theaters, Godzilla serves an antagonistic role, and chases the player through San Francisco in the third stage. Players must avoid flying debris and make it to the end of the level to take cover. In the PlayStation 4 version of the game, Hollywood Godzilla is available to play in all game modes.

In God of Destruction Mode, Hollywood Godzilla will always be scaled to his movie-accurate height of In King of Kaiju mode, Hollywood Godzilla is scaled to the meter class, like all other monsters.

Godzilla in Godzilla: Smash3. Godzilla in Godzilla: Strike Zone. Godzilla in Godzilla: Kaiju Collection. Godzilla ver. Red in Godzilla: Kaiju Collection. Godzilla model in Godzilla Battle Line. Traveling the world, Godzilla and King Kong demonstrated tenets of friendship. They played with the Eiffel Tower and various military vehicles, met up with Mechagodzilla near a playground, and used a forest for hide-and-seek and the Gateway Arch as a swingset. Kong helped Godzilla climb the Empire State Building and defused a fight with a peace sign.

Godzilla pulled a tree out of Kong's foot and lit his way with his dorsal fins at night. Holding hands, they walked into the sunset. An ancient creature, Godzilla slept in the sea million years ago and was disturbed by a Shinomura that landed near him. Godzilla stood up and blasted the Shinomura with his atomic breath just as a meteor exploded nearby, triggering the Permian-Triassic extinction event and diminishing atmospheric radiation, which Godzilla depended on, forever, forcing him to look for radiation closer to the Earth's core in the bottom of the ocean.

Millions of years passed and Godzilla hibernated until he was awakened by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, He surfaced near Hiroshima and observed the awakened Shinomura.

Throughout the rest of the s, Godzilla chased off Shinomura from all sites it attacked around the Pacific Ocean and was mass-reported by eye-witnesses, but no one working for the U. In March of , Godzilla surfaced near Moansta Island to fight the two Shinomura, who had just fused into one. After a heated battle, Godzilla managed to separate both Shinomura and killed one of them with his atomic breath.

As the other Shinomura got away, Godzilla followed it to Bikini Atoll and was seen by Monarch , proving "Gojira" existed. What's more, the pursuit of dragging you further into the gameworld has led Ancel to nix staple FPS furniture like aiming reticules and health bars. Instead of a constantly falling life-o-meter, you have to pay attention to the puffs, pants and screams of your character - as well as the charming red tinge that grows and grows until your likely demise.

This gives the game a valuable sense of being both predator going back out to flaming spear some dino-arse and some choice tail-between-your-legs moments of being the prey. Much as I love what I've seen of Kong, there's a pessimist in me that occasionally delivers sharp kicks to my ribs in cases such as this - and the big monkey has provided me with two.

The first is a question of linearity - because, despite Peter Jackson's mantra of if it's not in the movie it could be in the game", the game is tied to the movie and as such levels can't afford for much dilly-dallying when there's a screaming starlet to save.

Ancel counters this convincingly by explaining that he's trying to instil choice and freedom within the linear confines of his levels.

A prime example of this, perhaps, is the absolutely breathtaking, breathless and perfect cinematic pitch of a downstream raft-ride that you and your companions take. Pursued by two count 'em, two T-Rexes and a cavalcade of other subsidiary beasties, a lesser game would simply have this as one of those dreaded moving gun emplacement levels' that every shooter and its deceased mother has been churning out since Half-Life.

In the hands of Ancel, however, it's slightly different. Your aim is not to kill, but to delay - you have no hope of killing what's after you and it wouldn't fit in the game narrative either but shhh! You can start off with machine gun fire, you can turn to Jack Black on the raft behind you to demand a spear to lob at your pursuers, you can set the spear on fire and ignite nearby patches of long grass or you can blast creatures out of the sky, which causes Rex and friend to pause for a moment and chow down on Batfink.

You don't have time to do them all and if you're not hasty, then you or one of your companions become brunch - it's linear then, linear as hell, but with Ancel's narrative and gameplay-orientated brainwaves coupled with the cinematic edge of the scene, then it neatly slips past my pessimistic side's radar.

Seeking to further assuage my panic, Ancel pats down his ruffled shirt and points out that there's another edge to his sword: Whenever you die we'll modify the game and exactly what creatures attacked you," he explains. In other games, when you die you get the same repeated sequence and you can learn how to do it.

Here though, you can play through again without seeing the same creatures. And so now we come to Kong himself, cradling Ann in his arms and running through the jungle with mischief on his mind. What's more, as the game progresses it's evident that, in a fairly extreme example of the Stockholm syndrome, she slowly warms to her hairy monolithic captor. Kong's controls are remarkably simple and his fights beautifully choreographed.

My hands-on saw me take on two T-Rexes and what was on-screen was quite delightful: throwing batfinks into their mouths, watching them instinctively catch it and smacking them in the chops, climbing up massive ruins and delivenng WWE-style power-'bombs.

He's fun to control and better to watch, as he leaps with apparent Prince Of Persia-stylings from wall to wall, tree to tree and from pulverised monster to pulverised monster. I've just had a kick in the ribs though, and so have to provide a caveat.

From what I've played, I have to report that the Kong sections are nowhere near as well suited to PC as they are to console - not by a long way. Please bear in mind that, obviously, I was playing incomplete code and Kong's earliest and therefore simplest and easiest appearance in the game. But despite the apparent style and finesse in Kong's fighting, climbing and leaping, all I was doing at the other end of the bargain was providing an entirely unsubtle episode in button-mashing.

At the end of the day, whatever the Ancel pedigree, this is a game being released on many platforms and I can only hope that the same finesse seen in the FPS sections is brought to the Kong sections. PC game-players can expect to have the most detailed and beautiful version of the game competing against the version on the much-heralded Xbox , with all manner of hi-tech lighting effects, normal mapping and infinitely more polygons than in the last-gen offerings.

However, whether Kong gameplay will suit the platform remains a case of wait and see. I, however, still have heavy dibs on the fact that it will by the time of release. Another bonus is that, because of lowly GameCube releases and the like. King Kong will be able to run satisfactonly on most games PCs - the graphics will look worse, but old and new graphics cards alike will be able to run the game without too much jittery-pokery.

Don't let this word of warning get you down though: King Kong will without doubt be as big as its namesake and far, far cleverer. After just playing for a few minutes I came across an unscripted moment when a raptor grabbed my leg. He's got my leg! It's not just that though: King Kong is taking the traditional FPS and doing loads of interesting things with it -turning it into a more cinematic whole -an 'event' game, in which the pursuit of reeling in the player leads to clever stuff like Skull Island's food chain and some blindingly obvious, yet previously unseen stuff as simple as the need to hold your nfle above your head when you wade through rivers.

With the team promising some extremely nice stuff" appearing after Kong's debut on the New York social scene at the close of the game, a stream of production notes and designs appearing from the WETA workshops on a weekly basis and remarkably frequent meetings with Jackson himself, King Kong is the rarest of beasts.

It's a movie game being made by people who don't wear suits, who care about narrative and gameplay and who certainly don't bother using an iron on their shirts. It's a game that has direct interaction with the very highest ranks of the movie's production. It's a game with ideas at its heart that are big enough to hide the cash register that lurk behind it. It's a good game too. All this and there's an absolutely gigantic monkey that features quite heavily. Let's ponder on the demise of one of the giant bats that I humorously labelled as batfinks' - one that got munched by the T-Rexes to save Adrien Brody on his thrilling river ride.

Everything in the game, yourself very much included, has its own predators and prey. Giant bats and centipedes chow down on similarly over-sized dragonflies and frog-things, raptors and larger carnivores nab giant bats and giant millipedes, while T-Rexes eat everything in sight and Brontosauruses eat lots and lots of plants.

You'll be able to use this to your advantage by jabbing at pond-life and keeping them wriggling at the end of your ever-handy spear to use them as bait.

One level I played featured an eminently rickety bridge Skull Island has lots of rickety bridges - you just can't get the tribal native workmen these days with a colony of giant batfinks hanging above it in characteristically upside-down fashion. Now you could be boring, pick up the nearby sniper rifle and take pot-shots - or, if you're daring, adventurous and handsome like me, you can prong a forlornly buzzing dragonfly on the end of a pointy stick and lob the insecto-javelin into the chasm below.

If you're also me, however, then you'll slip and die - and simply use the sniper rifle next time as its far less dangerous. After A Brief search on Google Earth, I've finally accepted that Skull Island doesn't exist and that giant apes and prehistoric lizards will forever be confined to movies, games and some of my stranger dreams.

And after playing Peter Jackson's King Kong , my disappointment with the non-existence of the isle is also met with some relief. Skull Island is a terrifying place - valleys dotted with ruins of ancient and forgotten civilisations, seemingly bottomless chasms spanned by rickety old rope bridges, and of course, the improbable abundance of supposedly extinct T-Rexes - and one absolutely massive monkey.

I'm in the waterlogged safari suit of Jack Driscoll, trying to keep up with my expeditionary chums as we wander through a dull green valley bordered by sheer stone faces on either side. The lack of any sort of on-sdteti information is as apparent as a missing front tooth, there's no ammo count or health readouts, no compass or map. It's a far more literal take on a first-person viewpoint, complemented by the sort of bobbing, stumbling and jerking movements you'd expect as you traverse the vine-smothered floors of an ancient ravine.

It's not an entirely innovative feature, but I struggle to think of a time I've felt as immediately drawn into in-game surroundings. The rain continues to pound the scenery as we exit the narrow valley and spy some of our comrades sprinting hastily across a bridge far above our heads.

They've seen some sort of monster, they inform us, but they don't know where it's gone now And like some connoisseur of dramatic and predictable timing the colossal figure of a T-Rex emerges from behind them, decimating the fragile bridge and tearing people to shreds in a scripted flurry of teeth and limbs.

Just like in the movies. There are a number of reasons why Kong's hairy arse won't sit comfortably in the FPS chair. Its sequences and set-pieces, the invisible interface, the cinematic presentation and the fact that there are entire sections in which you play as the exiymous King from a third-person perspective.

These sections have you chasing Fay Wray or Naomi Watts at least , protecting her from danger, leaping about Skull Island with surprising acrobatic grace for such a big ape, and getting into bloody scraps with the local wildlife. The combat controls are simple: left-click to swing Kong's tree trunk arms about, shattering the bones of anything they come into contact with, and right-click to grab - a move which opens a few more combat options such as throwing and slamming.

For all its simplicity, the action on screen looks superbly choreographed and intense. Punches connect with a stunning sense of force, and the animations give a feeling of weight and epic magnitude. However, the console leanings we noticed with our last playtest are unfortunately still very much present, with mindless button mashing and frantic clicks of the mouse being the key to coming out successful in.

The Last Time I was planning major monkey coverage in PC, I was phoning a zoo asking if we could dress up one of their simian inmates in gangster clothing and pose alongside them with a copy of the magazine. Interestingly, the clothing wasn't an issue for the lady monkeywrangler.

It was more the fact that apparently, chimps can be unpredictably violent, with a tendency to bite your face off - obviously a disadvantage if you're the editor of Britain's best PC games rag. Whicji brings us to King Kong - another aggressive ape, that again I imagine would be difficult to get into a sharp suit and force to smoke a cigar.

Ubisoft's game is a film tie-in featuring Peter The Lord of the Rings ' Jackson's latest spectacular and stars one of Hollywood's most famous monster icons. The result is a short but extremely polished rollercoaster-ride of a game packed with genuine awe-inspiring moments of fear and wonder.

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