Chicken Invaders Review |
By James
Computer games come in
many different forms, and often, rigid genres. You have FPS', Puzzles,
RPG's and so on and so forth. Personally, the only games that I've really
had a taste for are quality RPG's. I've no doubt that the amount that I
played on the Final Fantasy series alone has accounted for around at least
a sixth of my life. If you haven't played them before then stop reading
this article right now and go play FFXII. Anyway, this article chronicles
and reviews the ridiculously simplistic shooter, Chicken Invaders.
Granted, in today's competitive computer game scene, consumers as a whole
are looking for the mind-blowing graphics and intricate plots. If we look
at CI in those aspects, it belongs more in the 1950's - you could find
better visuals in a cup of piss, and the plot? What plot?
The basic idea of Chicken Invaders is that you pilot a small ship, in the
attempts to kill as many winged chickens and rogue meteors as possible.
These chickens apparently are able to breathe in outer space sans the use
of a oxygen tank and also appear to be twice the size of your ship. That's
right, we're talking some big bad poultry. As you advance through the
levels, the chickens become progressively faster and harder to kill.
Evidently the process of evolutionary resistance to your bullets is
somewhat faster in this universe.
Every chicken that you kill explodes, and leaves a drumstick in it's
place, which you can collect for additional points and the ability to use
a rocket. Apparently not only is your gun made to kill the chickens, but
it is also a part-disappearing ray and part cooker - it utterly vapourises
every part of the hapless chicken's body except it's leg, which is
perfectly deep fried. I guess this is how the pilot of your tiny ship
survived the absense of food in deep space. However if this was in fact
the case, the pilot would indeed have to be either extremely fucking
hungry or imediately beaming the drumsticks back to KFC outlets on Earth
considering that each chicken leg is approximately 3/4 the size of your
ship.
Although each chicken that dies gives you a tasty drumstick, random
poultry also gives a 'present', which once collected allows you to shoot
an extra bullet at a time. The only explanation for this is that the
chickens had been summoned to fight your ship completely last minute, thus
catching those last minute holiday shoppers without a chance to leave
their gifts at the safety of their homes.
You are granted three lives, and there are two ways in which you can die.
The first being if a suicidal chicken kamikazes your ship, and the second
being if one of their eggs hits you. Which only begs the question, how did
they reproduce if their eggs were giant explosives?
Anyway, go get the game from CNET and enjoy!