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A very dumb game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 40 / 43
Date: July 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I rarely write reviews on Amazon, but I feel so ripped off by this game that I have to speak up. This game is boring, pointless, and unimaginative. I regret my purchase. It has neither the elegance and simplicity of a target-practice game, nor the sophistication and excitement of a role-playing game. Do yourself a favor and skip this dud.

Worst Wii Game Ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: July 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is a complete and total waste of time and money. It reminds me of a shareware program that you can pick up for free on the internet, or even at Big Lots for 99 cents.

In other words, if you are lucky enough to own a Wii, pass on this game. I give it a 0 out of 5 stars.

A good concept...in theory

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The main reason I purchased this game was the mention on the case of an egg-catching mini-game. An arcade puzzle game from the 80's titled 'Chicken Shift', and my fruitless search to find said game again for the next 20 years, immediately sprung to mind. So I shelled out $30 for 'Chicken Shoot' and was on my way back to my trailer for some beer-swillin', chicken-shootin', egg-catchin', hootin' and hollerin' good times. Or so I thought.

I popped the game in my Wii and while the lackluster graphics were an immediate red flag, I reassured myself that I've already spent more money on worse-looking games for the Wii.

My first mission was to hunt down the egg-catching mini-game, which turned out to be nothing like my beloved 'Chicken Shift' (strike #2 and I hadn't even had the disc in for 2 minutes) It seemed to automatically toggle between being overly-sensitive to non-responsive - a trait which rendered the egg-catching portion of the game completely useless to me. Then logic mode kicked in and I had to ask myself, why the farmer was even going through the trouble of catching the eggs when he's just going to shoot them after they hatch?!?

So I moved on to the shooting portion, which is the alleged meat and bones of this game - figuratively speaking. Here you have the same chickens repeatedly juxtaposed onto different backgrounds. The mannerisms of the chickens distinctly remind me of the Whammy animations from the 80's game show 'Press Your Luck'. Can anyone say cheezy?!?

Suppose you pick off the chicken washing her laundry on the bottom of the screen. If you move elsewhere on the same level, the same laundry-washing chicken re-appears in the same spot where you had just shot her. Annoying. They could at least vary what pops up in a particular space.

The only thing that really varies in the game other than the cheap middle school play backdrops which change from level to level, is the different style weapons which you get to use. I didn't play long enough to figure out how I managed to get other weapons or why some weapons lingered around for a while and others disappeared after firing six rounds. It would have been nice if you could work your way up to even more ridiculously overpowered weapons such as cannons and flame-throwers, but since this game isn't very well thought out to begin with, I guess I can't expect much.

I did wind up playing this for about a half hour in order to give it a chance, but it gets old really quick. The graphics, audio and just about everything else seems not only dated, but below sub-standard, if that's even possible. This is supposed to be a 'next generation' console - I wish the game developers for the Wii would give us some titles that are worthy of the phrase.

LAME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you have a single brain cell and a memory problem you will love this game. Your single cell will enjoy the one button action and your memory problem will hide the fact that you have been shooting at the same five chickens for duration of the game. Which is endless.
You may also like this game if you are accustomed to sitting on the porch in a rocking chair with a shotgun in hand ready to shoot varmints.
Overall, simply the worst game ever released.

One of the worst Wii games out there.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is like a flash game you find in the web for free pasted on a Wii game with horrible controls and with a $30-40 price tag.

Boring - don't buy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We got this game in a bundle with the Wii system. Within 5 minutes you are bored. Don't bother buying it. If you really want it, go to a used game store and pay less. I think that is where I am going to take mine!

A real dog - don't waste your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm not sure which part is worse, the fact that this is barely a step above Duck Hunt for the original Nintendo system only remade with chickens, or the fact that I wasted $29.99 on it.

I'm not a hard core gamer, but I do like a dose of entertainment and fun with my video games. I'm hooked on the duck shooting gallery in Carnival Games for Wii and that one repetitive game is 100% more fun than this shoddy, cheaply made game. Actually I'd take any of the shooting games in Carnival Games over Chicken Shoot. Even the shooting thing on Wii Play is significantly better and more challenging.

The backgrounds look marginally better than graphics for the N64 platform, the sensory recognition is poor, and the game is tremendously repetitive. After level one, just drop in a different static backdrop and you have level two. The worst part is that it's not even funny. With a name like Chicken Shoot, you'd think there would be some humor or feathers flying, alas there is only aggravation.

Save your money for something fun.

Um.....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I work at GameStop and we sell this game- new- for 19.99. Used for 17.99. I think that this is the first time I have seen something on Amazon for more than Game Stop. And we are a corporate company. Corporate people are greedy. This game is no worth more than 19.99. Honest. And in my line of work, I play A LOT of games.

VERY LAME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My 8 yr old son hates this game. He played for 10 minutes and asked, is this it? He spent $20 of his own $ for this game and I felt so bad, I have him the $20 back. I think from now on, we will rent games before making a purchase. So far I have 3 Wii games that are pretty sorry.

Do Not Purchase

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My kids are 6 and 8 and after 10 minutes they did not like the game. Its the same old thing over and over again, and if there was ever a game I would like to get my money back this is it - do not purchase. If the company that produced this game had any focus on the market they would never have released such as simple and uneventful game.

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