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Dom Robinson reviews
Midway Games Ltd 
- Price: £14.99
- Players: 1-4
- Widescreen: No
- 60Hz: No
- DTS sound: No
Chicken Shoot is, put simply, a game featuring a lot of chickens thathave to be shot, and you’re the one who’s going to put them out of everyone’s misery. And believe me truethat I can’t make it any more simple than that. Oh, go on, then. It’s not just chickens, but there are planesand other things that fly or walk across your screen which
It’s like the old Operation Wolf arcade game, but without the guns in which you can shoot things withstyle. However, there’s a similar level of challenge at times as the enemy just walks straight into your sightsand waits for you to split their brain in two.
Starting wth the graphics, they’re not much to shout about. It’s bog-standard 2D all the way and looks asbasic as the images show. And if you’re wondering what’s down there at the bottom, it’s actually you as thefarmer, occasionally looking up to laugh heartedly as you blast the enemy into next week, but in these particularshots it looks like… to be as polite as possible… a woman’s private parts showing pink!
The sound effects are even less to champion and the gameplay is simply dull. Things fly across, you shoot them -sometimes requiring a few hits rather than one to bring them down, and it’s goodnight Vienna. In fact, it won’tbe too long before it’s goodnight to Chicken Shoot, especially since playing this on the DS feels likeOperation Wolf did in the ZX Spectrum as all you could do was press up/down/left/right and hit fire afterhoping your cursor slowly got there in time…
All that said, this is a game aimed for those of “3+”, as per the front cover, but even still, whereas on theWii this will probably have a bit more longevity since you can point and shoot the Wiimote… there are stillfar more interesting things to play on either platform.
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Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.