Game:

Chicken Invaders: The Next Wave (2002)

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Steam store page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/449550
My Steam review: http://steamcommunity.com/id/thugnificent/recommended/449550


Chicken Invaders 2 is a shoot ‘em up game developed by InterAction studios. This is the 2nd game in the series. The first Chicken Invaders was release well over 15 years ago so a lot of people, like me, who play this game will have nostalgia if they played the first one back in the day. The game has Alien invaders type gameplay where you’re on a ship defending earth against these evil space chickens.

Graphics:

The game features regular run of the mill graphics which are okay for this arcade type gameplay. They’re not that pleasing to the eyes. The FPS is also locked at 30 which is always a bad thing.

Sound:


While the music is very nice there’s not much variety of it. The sound effects like chicken dying can be hilarious but hearing them again and again can be pretty annoying.

Gameplay:

The gameplay of this game is very simple. It’s very simple to Alien invaders game where you get a bunch of enemies trying to kill you. You’re on the ship and you get 5 lives. The enemy chickens come in a few different varieties like parachuting chickens, regular chickens. Other than chickens you will frequently get asteroid waves. The chickens lay eggs which can kill you, so you must avoid these. You cannot shoot them you must avoid them. Since you can move anywhere on the screen with your mouse, dodging these slow moving eggs is not that difficult. The asteroid waves will throw a whole bunch of asteroids at you and you must avoid these. One of the asteroid waves has you destroy an asteroid. If you have played a game called “Pang”, this level is sort of like that. A giant asteroid is incoming and when you shoot it, small asteroids will spawn out of it and even smaller asteroids spawn out of these small ones too. So you must destroy all the small asteroids to advance to the next wave.

There’s a total of 11 levels in the game. These being the planets and Sun. You start off approaching Pluto and once you’ve done that level you move on to Neptune and you go on like this till you get to the Sun. Each level has 10 waves which are a mixture of different enemy types. Every 9th wave you get a bonus level and at this level a bonus invader ship can spawn and when you kill it you will get a power up. At the end of 9 waves of a level you’ll get a boss fight which is a giant chicken or a giant egg.

Chickens and asteroids drop things which they’re killed. Mostly chicken drumsticks and coins. Collecting these will give you points. There are power ups drops as well. The weapon drops are in gift boxes and depending on their color you can tell which weapon it is. If you already have that weapon and you pick up the gift box, you’ll get a power upgrade on your weapon. There’s also a power up item dropped which sort of looks like an atom(?). This will upgrade your weapon and make it powerful. There’s 3 different types of weapons. A red weapon which is a regular weapon and once you start upgrading it with power ups it’ll start to spread fire. The green weapon is sort of electricity type, it’s very powerful and fast. Then there is the yellow laser weapon which shoots waves of giant lasers. Each time you die your weapon power will decrease by one level.

There are checkpoints after every level and you even start off at with the power up and weapon you had when your game was over. Clicking the mouse button 1 rapidly makes your ship fire faster and by right clicking you can launch a missile which wipes all the enemies on the screen.

Conclusion:

This game is very nice. If you like Alien invaders type arcade action, this is the game for you. It’s filled with hilarious stuff and I highly recommend it. If you’re bored this can help you kill time easily and it’s very cheap too.

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