If there is a poster game for publishers’ rush to get games onto the Wii as
quickly as possible it’s Chicken Shoot. The game is a one-trick pony and that
trick is pretty lame. There’s so much that’s wrong with this game it’s almost
hard to decide where to start. I’ll give it a try, though…
Chicken Shoot is basically a point and click shooter in which the targets of
your aggression are, you guessed it, chickens. Just why you are involved in the
wholesale slaughter of cute little chickens is never explained but you must be
playing some sort of borderline psychotic. The chickens don’t pose any threat to
you in the game so you’re killing them simply to see how many you can kill and
how quickly you can do it. Some chickens are hanging out reading the paper or
doing their laundry when you come along and put a bullet in their heads. There’s
even a chick who’s enjoying some music on his MP3 player who you can blow away
for 10 points. The closest the chickens come to defending themselves is to toss
an occasional egg in your direction. However, all the egg does is splat on the
screen and obscure your vision for a few seconds. Can you blame them from trying
to defend themselves? Kids playing this game learn two erroneous lessons:
chickens can fly and shooting innocent creatures is supposed to be fun. The
creepy vibe that you get from all this is made worse by an old guy that sits at
the bottom of the screen and laughs which you kill a chicken. He particularly
appreciates it when you use a machine gun to do your killing.
All of this aside, the game itself is just not much fun. It has the look and
feel of a free Flash game on the Internet and will hold your interest for just
as long. The controls are not implemented well as the aiming does not always
work correctly and the screen scrolls pretty sluggishly. There are only three
game modes, and the only difference between them is that the levels are timed in
one case and require you to kill a set number of chickens in the other. The last
mode is a mini game that would be horrendously boring even if the controls
worked worth a darn. You play a farmer catching eggs that come rolling down
ramps from four directions, but he responds so slowly to your commands (and
sometimes not at all) that you’ll inevitably fail the mini game pretty quickly.
Chicken Shoot doesn’t have anything going for it that would make it remotely
recommendable to anyone. Avoid it like you would a chicken carrying SARS.
In The End, This Game Hath Been Rated:
25%. Anyone forced to play Chicken Shoot for too
long may find themselves wishing that someone would shoot them. 
