Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: Smash_Brother on July 03, 2007, 09:34:33 AM
Title: Chicken Shoot...
Post by: Smash_Brother on July 03, 2007, 09:34:33 AM
...is cute for 5-10 minutes but grows quickly boring.
It's straightforward: you use a bounding box to pan around the screen with your reticle which you aim with the Wiimote pointer. You can also use the d-pad to move the screen. You basically have a hand-drawn picture which is the game field and, as the title suggests, you shoot a plethora of cartoon chickens with B and reload with A. Reloading is manual so you cannot simply mash B endlessly.
As for the chickens, they'll occasionally hurl eggs at you, which you can shoot out of the air, but I don't think there's any downside to being hit other than having a small section of the overall screen covered with yolk for a few seconds.
As for the storyline, I remember hearing something about an invasion of alien chickens, but I don't see this as being at all represented in the game. These colorful cartoon birds will be found doing a range of things from listening to music to knitting, but the majority will be flying past the screen as you attempt to gun them down. The aiming works relatively well, but the real issue is that each level is timed and there's no real purpose to the game other than to score points and move onto the next level. You can shoot chickens carrying briefcases labeled with machine or shotguns and get a different weapon, but the same premise remains. The other issue is that, other than 1-2 level-specific chickens, all of the chickens which show up are the same. The chickens flying by, the old lady chicken knitting and the chick listening to music are all the exact same sprites with the exact same animation on each level. Even Wii Play's shooting game was better conceived than this.
It's a cute diversion, but I couldn't recommend anyone pay full price for this game (I rented it through Gamefly).
Title: RE: Chicken Shoot...
Post by: KDR_11k on July 04, 2007, 12:30:27 AM
It's a Moorhuhn clone that was made to cash in on the Moorhuhn craze back then (neer seen the Wii version of Chicken Shoot but I've seen the PC version years ago). There was a Moorhuhn game for the GBA but I have no idea if there was one for the DS. I think Phenomedia would do well to port all the Moorhuhn games to the Wii and release them in one big pack or put them on the WiiWare for 500 points a piece (they cost 5€ in stores) or so.
Title: RE: Chicken Shoot...
Post by: Smash_Brother on July 05, 2007, 03:55:01 AM
In other words, paying full price for this game would be ridiculous for a reason.
Title: RE:Chicken Shoot...
Post by: Rhoq on July 05, 2007, 06:58:25 AM
This game is about as appealing as it's title. It looks like it would get very boring and monotonous after 5 minutes.
Title: RE: Chicken Shoot...
Post by: Smash_Brother on July 05, 2007, 07:40:31 AM
It does.
This game would be an excellent candidate for WiiWare.
Title: RE:Chicken Shoot...
Post by: Rhoq on July 05, 2007, 08:24:51 AM
Quote Originally posted by: Smash_Brother It does.
This game would be an excellent candidate for WiiWare.
Speaking of WiiWare. I downloaded the XBox Live Arcade version of Missile Command yesterday. While playing it, I couldn't help but to think that it would be a perfect candidate for WiiWare. Using the Wii-Mote to move the crosshairs around the screen could really bring back the trackball precision of the original arcade machine. Use the "B" trigger for the middle gun turret and map the left/right turrets to the D-Pad (or "down" on the D-Pad for the middle gun).
Title: RE:Chicken Shoot...
Post by: KDR_11k on July 05, 2007, 10:59:27 PM
Quote Originally posted by: Rhoq This game is about as appealing as it's title. It looks like it would get very boring and monotonous after 5 minutes.
Well, it was a cheap cash-in on the Moorhuhn frenzy. For those who weren't there: Back when the first Moorhuhn game was released (for free on the internet since it was an ad game for Jonny Walker, an earlier version is available here) it started a frenzy where people played it all the time, it kinda replaced solitaire or minesweeper as the standard office game for a while.
The original game gave you 1:30 (IIRC) to score as many points as possible, you'd get them for shooting the titular chickens (different ones giving different scores) and some scenery features. It basically revived the highscore hunting craze that died with the arcade and the Atari back in the day.
Title: RE: Chicken Shoot...
Post by: Infernal Monkey on July 06, 2007, 03:41:13 AM
This game looks as awesome as a Phoenix Games title. I'll buy it.
