Quick Look: Crazy Chicken Deluxe for iPhone
You can’t imagine how pleasantly surprised I was to see this pop up in the list of new games on App Shopper one day. I’ve always been a fan of the PC versions of the chicken shooting games, so for 99 cents buying the iPhone version was a “no brainer”. For the most part I haven’t been disappointed.
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There’s nothing more complex to this game than the simple notion that you must shoot as much as you can before your time runs out. To the best of my knowledge there is no way to get extra time on the clock, so you have a minute and thirty seconds to do all your damage. To shoot you simply tap the screen. In the options you can set whether you want the trigger to appear at the position where you tap, to the left of where you tap or to the right of where you tap. None of the options seem completely accurate to me, but my personal preference is having the trigger right where I tap. To reload your gun you click the bullets in the lower right corner of the screen. There doesn’t appear to be a pause button, and the quit button, while tucked in the lower left corner of the screen, is possible to trigger while you’re trying to slide the display over (I know from experience). The playing field is bigger than what can be displayed on the screen, so you can move the panorama back and forth by dragging your finger left and right on the screen.
What makes this game so fun is discovering everything that can be shot. If it looks like you can hit it, try and hit it. If it doesn’t look like you can hit it, try anyway. You might me surprised and amused. It appears that you can even play Blackjack, though I haven’t completely figured that one out yet. The only down side to all this coolness is that there’s only one season in this game, and I know there was more than one season on the PC (though they may have been separate applications, I don’t remember for sure). Hopefully we’ll at least see a Winter one at some point, even if it’s a separate app.
The graphics are the highlight of this series, and the visuals on the iPhone don’t disappoint. The chickens look hilarious as they’re running on the ground in a style that’s more Warner Bros. than real chicken. The various specialty shots have great animations, and overall the animation in the game is really good. I find it especially amusing that the chickens get black Xs over their eyes when they get shot. The sound effects fit right along with everything that’s going on in the game. There’s a great song that plays during the menu, but unfortunately there is no music during the game itself.
I know there are a lot of “point and shoot” games in the App Store, but this particular brand has always held a special place in my heart where this style of game is concerned. It’s not nearly as intense as some of the other games of this genre, but it’s not meant to be. It’s almost like what you’d imagine if Elmer Fudd went out chicken hunting. And, at only $1, what do you have to lose?
Final Verdict: Recommended
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Tags: Crazy Chicken Deluxe, Eric Pankoke, iPhone, Quick Look, review, technobrains
