KING KONG

There aren’t many characters from the world of cinema as tragic as King Kong. Brutally attacked on his home of Skull Island where he was doing nothing but peacefully existing and only occasionally eating one of the locals. Chased and shot at and eventually given a dose of knockout gas. Dragged to a boat and steamed across the ocean to a big, filthy, crowded city to be put on display and gawked at by anyone who could afford a nickel’s admission. (Hey, it was the 1930s.) Freeing himself only to be shot at by the cops and the military, now with aeroplanes, and most painfully of all, completely rejected by his crush. Or maybe falling off a skyscraper onto his face was slightly more painful. Hard to say.

Point is, the oversized ape has had a rough time in his trips, created by the prolific and talented JulioNIB, who’s been making mods for Rockstar’s games for years. With the   mod installed, and the other four mods it relies on installed, and a King Kong skin installed, and two more mods that make the installed King Kong skin work properly installed, I’m ready to go. (Please, Rockstar, add official support for mods and make this process all a lot easier for everyone.)