PLATFORM |
PC/Steam |
available on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh operating systems, Xbox One |
DEVELOPER/PUBLISHER: |
DEVELOPER: The Wild Gentlemen PUBLISHER: HandyGames |
RELEASE DATE: |
Thursday, November 5, 2020 |
VIDEO |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_RU7abVwE4 |
Me Playing |
AUDIO CLIPS |
https://studiom80.com/brian/boopshow-283-chicken-police-1.mp3 |
^ Launch Trailer Audio |
https://studiom80.com/brian/boopshow-283-chicken-police-2.mp3 |
^ Game Play Audio |
HOW LONG TO BEAT |
12 Hours |
https://howlongtobeat.com |
IS THERE ANY DEALS |
$13.39 (Humble Bundle) usually 19.99 |
https://isthereanydeal.com/game/chickenpolice/info/ |
DESCRIPTION |
A wild tale of love, death, chickens, and redemption! Chicken Police is a buddy-cop noir adventure, with a carefully crafted world, a gritty story, and lots of absurd humor. The game mixes elements of classic adventure games with visual novel-style storytelling |
EXPERIENCE |
What happens when Frank Miller’s Sin City walks into a Buddy Cop movie about a couple of anthropomorphic Chickens in a town full of animals, murder, class warfare and racism? Well you get this clucking thing. Heading on down to Clawville! Mesmerizing. Bwock bwock |
Art: Clucking cool style that takes a minute to get used to. Noir live action anamorphic characters in a steamy city. Animal heads on human bodies. This game gets my costuming award for indie games of 2020 |
Animation: Pose to Pose pivot point movement that works in the context of this game. |
Music/Effects: The music pulls (mostly jazz noir) really pulls you into the moment. |
V/O: Very competent voice over. I would listen to this as an audiobook anyday. |
World Building: Built on a lot of tropes but in a good way. A variation on theme that allows exploration into some serious topics like race relations, social classes and relevant issues of today and yesterday. |
Currency: Good Will |
Gameplay/Loop: Explore, Investigate, Question and some simple puzzle solving. |
AI/NPCs: The NPCs are on rails. We are revealing a story and have a small amount of control over relationships. |
Controls: Mouse clicks. Clicky Clicky. |
Interface: Minimal. Very polished and appropriate to the style and theme of the game. |
Replay/Endgame: Some replay value inline. No manual save system so you go from start to finish and then you would have to start all over again. Probably a one time play through and then wait a while and forget everything. I didn’t reach the endgame. But I think I know where it is going. |
Score: 9 Dames out of 10 Walking in and out of my Clucking life |
LINKS |
https://presskit.chickenpolice.com |
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=Chicken Police |
https://www.igdb.com/search?type=1&q=Chicken Police |
Tags: Adventure,Indie, Detective, Noir, Story Rich |
SCOTT GUESS MY GAME |
Play on show |
BRIAN GUESS MY GAME |
https://brian.studiom80.com/boop283-thegamename.mp3 |
hints: 2000 |
Contra III: The Alien Wars |
Next Week (optional) |
SCOTT: |
BRIAN: DORFROMANTIK or Ranch Simulator |