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Als ich mir gerade das Review zu Shicken Shoot für den Wii angesehen habe, kam ich auf die Idee einen Worst games ever Thread zu eröffnen.
Sinn dieses Threads ist es sich nciht nur über die Spiele des schreckens lustig zu machen, sondern vorallem davor zu warnen.
Es gibt eigentlich nur 2 kriterien. Keine games über 40% und ernste Reviews^^
Zu beginn mal eins, dass man kaum toppen kann^^
http://www.n-philes.com/reviews.php?id=298
Sinn dieses Threads ist es sich nciht nur über die Spiele des schreckens lustig zu machen, sondern vorallem davor zu warnen.
Es gibt eigentlich nur 2 kriterien. Keine games über 40% und ernste Reviews^^
Zu beginn mal eins, dass man kaum toppen kann^^
Chicken Shoot
Reviewed by Jared Thomas on Friday, July 6th 2007.
The reaction to finding a game like Chicken Shoot in the wild is universal. Several questions immediately spring to mind: Is this for real? Is it some kind of practical joke? Am I high? The answers come in the order of yes, no, and hopefully yes -- some games just need that special help. I can't personally attest to the fact, but I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that Chicken Shoot is one of them.
With flat 2D graphics, an adventure that lasts 11 repetitive levels, and a soundboard of nearly as few tracks, it's easy to write off Chicken Shoot as a lame cash-in of a mediocre flash game. Really, it looks like something that might be featured in Kentia Hall, the bunker placed underneath the "real E3" that features a myriad of kooky gadgets and gimmicks games from low-budget companies. It would stand fairly well alongside one of those table tennis games where you swing a real paddle that registers your movement once in awhile. But once you get into the game, the big ideas shine and the True Nintendo Power of the Nintendo Wii shines through.
Until now, there really hasn't been a game where you scroll a Warner Bros. looking landscape and shoot Warner Bros. looking chickens in the face with an uzi as they fly by in a Snoopy bi-plane -- not one that sells for money, at least. But Chicken Shoot is just that. The motivation for shooting chickens, as far as I can piece together, is that a farmer wakes up to find that chickens have gotten into what looks to be chicken feed, and he decides to murder them. I'd assume the chicken feed is for the chickens themselves, so the farmer could be insane. For all I know this is based off a folktale from Poland, where I assume this game was localized from (the programming department has more "ski"s than an Aspen resort).
Chicken Shoot is exactly what you would expect from looking at the box, which is refreshing in this day and age. You aim the Wii remote at the screen and shoot at chickens that fly across the screen or dance around listening to their walkman (really). Sometimes there are soda cups or bowls of fruit to shoot, too. There's a very lively Country Bear Jamboree going on in the background music, and the chickens make a satisfying squawk when you shoot them. Sometimes the farmer, who for some reason is visible as a bust on the bottom of the screen, snickers when a chicken is shot. There's a split-screen two-player mode, and also a mini-game where you help the farmer catch falling eggs that have just been laid by the chickens he's about to murder. I call this a mini-game because I don't really have any other word for it, but it rivals the main game in complexity so perhaps they're supposed to be some kind of party pack.
Multiplayer is confusing because it's unclear whether you're in competition or working together. You still just basically shoot everything until you move to the next level. Sometimes you can't even tell who shot a chicken because the number score that pops up is in red for both players, and shows up on both sides of the split screen. If there is competition, it's for high score, but I don't know what kind of bragging rights could be involved.
You can also upgrade your standard-issue pistol into a shotgun, an uzi, and some kind of more powerful machine gun. Someone who knows firearms might be able to more correctly identify it, but I think I recognize the boom-boom-boom-boom from Medal of Honor. Maybe a "Thompson"? Is that a kind of machine gun? Anyway, it helps you spray the landscape and mow down pheasants more easily than is really necessary unless you're gonzo for a high score. It seems almost unfair to the chickens, and you might feel bad until one of them sticks his tongue out at you or throws an egg at the screen. In a surprising twist, the gunshot comes through the speaker on the remote, which I'd forgotten about since launch. It's those little touches that separate the truly great titles from the riff-raff.
I know what you're all thinking: "This all sounds so great, does this game even HAVE a downside?" The answer is of course no, but if I had to come up with something in the interest of balance, it would be that this game isn't fun to play for more than three passive minutes. Where Chicken Shoot breaks free from the Duck Hunt mold is that there's no ramping difficulty or sense of purpose. You just keep shooting chickens until enough are dead for the game to suggest you move on. Then you go to a new level like a tropical beach or a viking ship, only all the chickens are the same and they're about as easy to shoot. Some don't even move. There will always be that mama chicken doing her laundry in a wash basin, or the sunbathing chicken sitting in a lawn chair. If a chicken makes it across the screen, no worries. Just shoot the next one. You have to reload after every five shots, but otherwise you have unlimited ammo. Basically, you just shoot anything that moves for about 20 minutes, and then the game is over and you probably have a high score.
The Score
Flatline
No yolks about it!
Chicken Shoot is a solid murder simulator that will help train old and young alike in the skills necessary to gun down their co-workers, schoolmates, etc. The Wii remote aims with what I'd call "pixel-perfect" accuracy if I knew what pixel-perfect even meant, and unlike the queer setup or Resident Evil 4, which uses the A button to shoot a gun, Chicken Shoot uses the B-trigger for full immersion. But in the end, I can't shake the sinking feeling that I've already played this game in some ad banner trying to sell me a PS3 on the Internet somewhere. I wouldn't recommend it unless you want to impress your hipster friends with bulk amounts of camp.
http://www.n-philes.com/reviews.php?id=298
