The chickens are all dressed up in various silly characterizations, but there's no punchline to speak of. There's nothing remotely comical about the game. The only thing that makes the game remotely difficult is the occasional tree-heavy stage that offers some far-away chickens a chance to duck for cover. If the game were challenging, or actually funny, you might be able to tolerate the insipid gameplay, but it's neither. What the heck did she do to deserve getting shot in the face? That chicken is just washing her clothes. The shotgun is actually way less effective than the standard pistol, and getting a time bonus in this game is sort of like voluntarily extending a torture session. Occasionally you get weapon power-ups and bonuses like time boosts, but some of them are more like punishments than bonuses. These harmless chickens just keep popping up, and you keep popping them off. You just point the Wii Remote at them and press B to shoot. From there, chickens from all walks of life pop onto the screen at varying intervals.

In both of these modes, you're plopped down in some slightly zany location, like a farm, or the Nevada desert, or the Himalayas (where the soundtrack consists of a lot of yodeling, for some inexplicable reason). Arcade and classic mode are identical, except that the criteria for moving on are slightly different (one requires shooting a certain number of chickens to move on, whereas the other is time- and score-based). There are a few different modes to be found in the game, though nearly all of them are essentially the same thing. Imagine the old NES classic Duck Hunt, now toss in a couple of poorly implemented bonus weapons, make the ducks a bunch of wacky chickens, and make the action as soul-crushingly boring as possible. Unless, of course, you're shooting chickens-specifically, in Chicken Shoot, a DSI-published release that is actually a Wii update of a PC downloadable game that's nearly five years old. Just point the Wii Remote at the screen, fire away at zombies, soldiers, terrorists, or whatever else happens to pop up onscreen, and a good time should be had by all. Certainly the Wii would seem to be an ideal system for light-gun games.

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