Chicken Little
Ace in Action
SCORE: 71
There are some interesting days here at Family Friendly Gaming,
especially when a game like Chicken Little: Ace in Action on the
Nintendo DS come across my desk. I was expecting a completely different
game than the one that booted up. This is an ‘E’ (for Everyone rating by
the ESRB) shooter. For those not familiar with the term shooter, let me
explain. The player uses Ace, a tank (Runt), or a space ship (Abby) to
shoot everything out of the way. The firing is based on the different
buttons on the DS (the ‘X’ button fires up, the ‘B’ button fires down,
the ‘Y’ button fires to the left, and the ‘A’ button fires to the
right). Players can hold the button down, and then just worry about
lining up their shots, and avoiding incoming fire. Can you help Ace save
the world from Foxy Loxy?
Graphically Chicken Little: Ace in Action does a very nice job with
the 3D graphics. The system can easily handle all of the enemies, and
assortment of other items on the screen without any slow down
whatsoever. Much of the graphics are bright and colorful. The cut scenes
are spectacular. There is fantasy violence as the robots are done away
with via shooting them with a laser blaster. Enemies explode when they
are shot enough times. There is a female character that has her gender
defined, but not to the level of lustful.
The sounds are very crisp and clear in Chicken Little: Ace in Action.
The music is pretty good, and I found myself enjoying it. The constant
blasting away at the enemies, and having them explode so often did begin
to grate upon my last good nerve a few times.
Buena Vista Games included a very nice amount of upgrades for the
player to become even more powerful. There is also mini games that can
be played wirelessly with friends. The length of Chicken Little: Ace in
Action is actually nice, and some of the levels felt a wee bit too long
to me. The difficulty of this game is pretty easy, and I only wound up
dying a couple of times. It is geared more towards kids whose parents
have no problem with a shooter. If you are seriously into Chicken Little
and/or like hand held shooters, then give this game a look.
The controls are delayed a little as the character moves their weapon
to the new direction before firing begins. The control scheme take a few
minutes to get used to, but work amazingly well. The designs of the
levels are linear to a fault. Some variety there would have been nice. I
personally did not have much fun with this one, but that has to do with
holding a specific button making the experience feel pretty mindless.
Morally speaking this is a fantasy (sci-fi) war game where the player
wades through waves upon waves of robotic enemies to stop their evil
scheme of taking over the universe. How you feel about using violence to
solve problems will most likely dictate your reaction to Chicken Little:
Ace in Action. It is a light hearted shooter, and there is plenty of
poultry humor in the cut scenes. It does teach the lesson of standing up
against evil, and standing for justice.
- Paul
Graphics: 69%
Sound: 76%
Replay/Extras: 71%
Gameplay: 70%
Family Friendly Factor: 70%
System: Nintendo DS
Publisher: Buena Vista Games
Rating: 'E' for Everyone
{Fantasy Violence}
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