Chicken Shoot

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Chicken Shoot

Developer(s)	DSI Games
Publisher(s)	Zoo Digital Publishing
Platform(s)	Wii, Nintendo DS, PC
Release date	July 20, 2007 July 2, 2007
Genre(s)	shooter
Mode(s)	Singleplayer, multiplayer versus, multiplayer coop
Rating(s)	ESRB: E10+

Chicken Shoot is a video game published by Zoo Digital. It was released for the Wii^[1] on July 2, 2007 in America.^[2]

1 Features
2 Reception
3 Original
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Features

Blast the chickens in 12 landscapes, with 8 difficulty levels
Shoot it up in Arcade mode or fight against the clock in Classic mode or try challenge mode
poultry plucking in a network or on the Internet.
Stalk them alone and achieve the ultimate high score to secure first place on the international online scoreboard
Punctuated with original sound effects and underscored with idyllic music.

[edit] Reception

Chicken Shoot was met with unanimously negative reviews. It currently has a score of 26% on Game Rankings. GameSpot referred to it as "Duck Hunt for idiots" and felt that the repetitive shooting had no point. IGN also pointed out that the same chickens were reused multiple times, and that the minigame was broken and mute. This game got a 0.0 and a -2.0 out of 10 on Reviews on the Run, the lowest rating ever given by the show. British magazine NGamer gave it a score of 7%, the lowest score ever given by them for a Wii game.

[edit] Original

The original Chicken Shoot released in 2003 was a Flash game that reached moderate success on the internet, and was generally well-received by players on various Flash game websites. It was one of the first flash games to be playable on the Internet Channel browser for the Wii, as it utilized the Wii Remote to aim and shoot chickens which flew across the screen. It is believed by many that the original Chicken Shoot helped popularize internet games playable on the Wii.