Chicken Shoot (Wii/DS)

Chicken Shoot (also known as Kurka Wodna 2: Zemsta Pana Franka in Poland) is a shooter game released originally in 2002 by TopWare Interactive Poland for mh:awesomegames:Microsoft Windows and later ported to the mh:awesomegames:Game Boy Advance, mh:awesomegames:Nintendo DS and mh:awesomegames:Wii by Frontline Studios, Calaris Studios and Vivid Design. It is the sequel and follow-up to the original Chicken Shoot released for Windows in 2000 and introduces new features such as a new art and animation style, Mr. Frank, and new locations such as a Christmas stage.

This page will be focusing on the Wii and Nintendo DS versions of the game, which are considered to be two of the worst games on both platforms.

Plot
One day, in a peaceful little farm, Mr. Frank, a calm, peaceful farmer from Bieszczad, is sleeping and later wakes up while the the hens nibbling away his chicken feed. He gets annoyed and decides to stop the chickens from ruining his life. And this is only the beginning of Frank's chicken hunt...

Overall

 * 1) While the graphics are good like other ports of the game, the game is visually a whole mess, with frequent graphical errors that can be seen with missing pixels on the backgrounds, inconsistent black outlines, and having one of the layers being cut off at the bottom of the screen. There are also some layering problems, like the chickens falling behind a background decoration when killed, making them look like giants.
 * 2) Repetitive use of the chickens as they barely offer any variety aside from cosmetic changes.
 * 3) The in-game sound effects are loud and very obnoxious, making the game annoying rather than even funny. Paired with some of the soundtrack, this makes the game even more annoying to listen to, making the player want to mute the sounds and music to actually bear the game.
 * 4) The "Catch an Egg" mode is a complete rip-off of Game and Watch: Egg and it's very boring. Basically, it plays almost exactly like the plagiarized game.
 * 5) While the goal is to shoot the chickens since they are "causing trouble" to Frank's life, the chickens are actually just minding their own business. So essentially, Frank is simply going postal on them.
 * 6) While decently drawn, the box art has multiple images of the cowering hen drawing copy-pasted on the image, evidencing the laziness put on the cover.
 * 7) The Arcade mode can be completed in just 30 minutes for a seventh-generation game, making the game criminally short like Ninjabread Man. This is possibly about (or even much less) how much it takes to go to a market, take this game from there, buy it and then go back at home to insert it on the console.

Wii

 * 1) While it's not a bad idea to make a Wii port of a PC gallery shooter, since it would control similarly to the mouse, the controls are actually clunky; when you move the cursor to the borders of the screen, it will automatically make the camera move to that direction, which results in easily losing the target and the control of the cursor. In comparison, the PC version allows the player to move the camera manually along with moving, which makes the controls enough fluent, so why doesn't the Wii version also use the Nunchuck to control the camera with its analog stick?
 * 2) *The poor controls are not limited to the Arcade and Classic modes. In the "Catch an Egg" mode, you have to wave the Wiimote at the farmer's direction on the egg that's being rolled around in order to catch the eggs, instead of using a directional pad that's also in the Wiimote. It's a redundant gimmick because motion controls are often worse than using buttons, since they don't register properly; therefore, you can accidentally make the farmer move to a direction you did not intend to.
 * 3) The chickens often feel like they are invincible for a brief amount of time when you try to shoot them multiple times to kill them. This is actually because the hitboxes barely register to them, with some parts of the background disallowing the player to shoot chickens in front of them, including nonsensical bullet-proof zones like some leaves that prevent the player from shooting through them, making the chickens behind them immune to the bullets.
 * 4) A rushed opening scene, where the farmer starts standing still after running into the chickens for a brief moment, and shooting out absolutely nowhere near the chickens. In comparison, in the other ports, Mr. Frank continues chasing the chickens while actualy shooting them.

Nintendo DS

 * 1) The Nintendo DS is well known for having an integrated touch screen, a great type of control for shooters since it makes those games much faster than using the cursor instead. Except that in this game, you shoot using the D-pad. It's like the developers forgot that the bottom screen of the Nintendo DS is actually a touch screen, and instead put the screen of the gameplay on the top screen rather than the touch screen, so using touch controls to shoot chickens is out of question.
 * 2) The graphics somehow managed to become extremely poor, with all the same visual issues from that port, and this time, it includes pixelated sprites and poor animation with a lack of frames.
 * 3) Poor-quality music, mostly sounding like fourth-generation game soundtracks.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Some of the music, especially the main menu theme, is nice to listen to.
 * 2) The animations and overall visuals are actually really well-done for a Polish game, despite the graphical errors in the Wii and DS versions.
 * 3) The Nintendo DS now has a more visible health bar on the touch screen, rather than displaying the farmer's health on the wood behind him.

Reception
While the PC version of Chicken Shoot received positive reviews and the GBA version received mixed to positive reviews, the Wii and DS versions received extremely unforgiving reviews. Reviews on the Run give the DS and Wii versions a 0.0 and -2.0, and NGamer giving the DS and Wii versions a 7%. On Metacritic, the DS version has a 19/100 rating from critics, based on 4 critic reviews, while the Wii version has a 27/100 rating, based on 9 critic reviews. Gamesradar ranked it as one of the worst games of all time list, calling it the worst piece of shovelware for the Wii. It is often considered by many to be the worst game on the Wii.

Trivia

 * The Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2 releases were planned, but ultimately canceled.

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