Get Ready For The Latest PS5 Exclusive: Crazy Chicken Shooter Remake

Get Ready For The Latest PS5 Exclusive: Crazy Chicken Shooter Remake

For as long as gaming has existed, shovelware titles have existed alongside it. These are games designed designed for a single purpose: making cold hard cash and giving buyers little in return. Crazy Chicken Shooter is one of these titles, and it’s also one of the oldest shovelware experiences in existence. Luckily, if you didn’t manage to stumble onto it when it first launched, it’s now available on the PS5.

Yes, that’s right: in an era where PS5 games are still supremely rare, one of the console’s major exclusives is a ‘remade’ version of Chicken Shooter. 

While the origin of this game’s genre is hard to track down, one of the first major entries was Chicken Shoot, a game released by Toontraxx in 2000. At the time it was a PC-exclusive, but it’s since been ported to several consoles — its most ‘high profile’ version being on the Nintendo Wii.

Like other versions of the game, the Wii port did exactly what it said on the tin: it let you shoot a whole bunch of chickens. And that’s all it did. The lack of innovation and dull gameplay led to Chicken Shoot for Wii becoming one of the worst rated games of all time. It was slapped with the ‘shovelware’ label and sent into the deepest pits of gaming hell.

Somehow, Chicken Shoot returned.

Chicken Shooter isn’t the same game, nor is it made by the same developers — but it retains the spirit and gameplay of the original. Load up a gun. Shoot some chickens. Rinse and repeat. It features the same clunky mechanics, the same hideous graphics and has just as little reason to exist.

Yet it’s still a real, physical title you can purchase for your PS5. One of the very few currently available.

In 2021, we all know what shovelware looks like. Anyone who owned a Wii had to battle it off with a long stick. Yet this reminder of those strange, unholy times persists.

The PS5 is a console designed for high-spec graphics, fast loading times, ray tracing and immersiveness. But if you really want to push the console (and your mind) to its limits, Crazy Chicken Shooter is the way to go.

Two decades later, Chicken Shoot is more powerful than ever. There are only so many certainties in life, and I’m glad Chicken Shoot is one of them.


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