Chicken Shoot

Chicken Shoot is an old-style shooting gallery game, in which you point the Wii remote at the screen and shoot chickens as they fly past or pop their heads up behind trees. It's a lot like one of the old light gun games that ushered in the era of Nintendo in the mid-80's on the NES, but somehow manages to bypass any sense of fun.

Chicken Shoot started life as a Flash game for the PC in 2003 which did quite well, but a simple Flash game does not necessarily translate into a decent console game, especially if you do such a poor job of it. Or maybe we're just being harsh - after all, just how good was Wild Gunman really? Target shooting is hardly the most challenging game on earth. You just point and shoot.

Even if there is a bit of rose-tinted glasses syndrome at work, you can't help but feel Chicken Shoot is a bad egg. The graphics are simple and cartoonish, the hiding places obvious and the sound effects bland (and often out of sync, especially in the little intro where the farmer shoots at his own chickens for waking him up. And while we're on the subject - why would he randomly kill his own livestock anyway? It makes no sense!)