Chicken Hunter

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Chicken Hunter
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North American cover art
Developer(s) Phenomedia Publishing GmbH
Publisher(s)
Series Moorhuhn
Platform(s) Nintendo DS
Release
  • DE: December 14, 2007
  • NA: March 4, 2008
Genre(s) Action
Mode(s) Single-player

Chicken Hunter (also known as Moorhuhn DS) is a 2007 action video game released for the Nintendo DS. It is an entry of the Moorhuhn series, also known as Crazy Chicken in English-speaking regions.

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Gameplay

The player earns varying points by shooting chickens under a time limit depending on the difficulty. Three different modes are available: Classic Shooter, Puzzle and Combined Puzzle and Shooter. There are also two unlockable bonus games.

The game's shooter modes were originally released for PC in Germany as Moorhuhn X on May 15, 2003, and published in North America in July 2004. [1]

Reception

The DS version received "unfavorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [2]

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References

  1. "Chicken Hunter - PC". IGN . Retrieved August 6, 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Chicken Hunter for DS Reviews". Metacritic . Retrieved August 6, 2017.
  3. Bedigian, Louis (March 9, 2008). "Chicken Hunter - NDS - Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on September 29, 2008. Retrieved August 6, 2017.
  4. DeVries, Jack (March 14, 2008). "Chicken Hunter Review (NDS)". IGN. Retrieved August 6, 2017.