Chicken Police

Surrender to this interactive story and you'll be immersed in a well told, strangely compelling who-done-it as gritty Sonny, who uses humour to get through the rough life of an ex-cop. It's a tight production: the grey world, it's characters, their history, the unfurling of the plot, the animation, the voice acting and music, the simple interaction and navigation, the puns: it all works together seemlessly. It's intreguing, not challenging. It good length without outstaying its welcome. Good fun if you want a quieter gaming experience.

Every hardboiled detective works alone. Almost every hardboiled detective, that is. Sonny Featherland is in-between-partners, so to speak. And his days are numbered. Looking ahead to his retirement from the Clawville Police Department he gets an unexpected visitor. It is not the Femme Fatale herself who approaches this weary, jaded old copper. But it is the next best thing: When one innocent-looking fawn walked into Sonny's appartment office, a wild ride through the city's underworld on the hunt for the truth begins. The Wild Gentelemen's 2020 "Chicken Police" is more than just an hommage to the works of authors like Raymond Chandler. It is true Noir and at the same time an outstanding piece of artdesign. Adhering to the genre conventions and yet doing its own thing. Seeing high-resolution photographs of animal heads crafted onto the actor's models might irritate at first. However, every character has ... well, character. The voice acting is superior to most other debut games like this. The nods to the noir genre, be it literary references or quotes from motion pictures like "Cassablanca" or "The Maltese Falcon", are a-plenty and yet should not confuse players who are unaware of those nods. During the dialogues between the main character and the other animals we gather information about the case as well as find out more about the "Chicken Police"-universe. Piece by piece the game lets us in on the lore behind Clawville, its century old history, its politics, economics and what distinguishes this stand-in for New York/Chicago/Los Angeles from other parts of the "Wilderness". Players should pay attention to the details reveiled in those conversations. Thankfully Sonny writes everything down in his notebook. We can always look up key information about the case as well as observations about the other animals. Many conversations eventually unlock the option to not just ask a bunch of questions but to interrogate a character. Herein lies the core of the detective-game

It is not a classic 3rd-person point&click adventure. But that doesn't matter. Chicken Police is a great adventure game. Very entertaining, exciting and amusing from beginning to end. The film noir ambience is perfectly realised graphically and musically. This is further supported by the great voice acting - something that for me personally is always an important quality feature of a game. I have nothing to criticise about it. Chicken Police is certainly the best animal fable crime noir game currently available and far outshines rival titles such as Blacksad or the ill-fated Backbone.

Well, not a big fan of the game "settings" but nonetheless had a lot of fun with this game (for like 7 hours of the gameplay). Giving 4/5. Would give 5/5 if there would be value to price ratio.

Francais: Jeux vrament sympa a faire. L'histoire est classique mais non moins très prenante. Digne de bon polars. La direction artitisque est sa plus grande réussite. On est vraiment dans l'ambiance du jeux du début a la fin. Pareil pour la musique. Des musiques de jazz d'époque vraiment jolie a écouté. Le jeux est très simple a prendre en main, rien de très original mais tout fonctionne bien. Je le conseille fortement. English: Games really nice to do. The story is classic but no less interesting. Worthy of good detective stories. The artistic direction is his greatest achievement. We are really in the atmosphere of the games from the beginning to the end. Same for the music. Jazz music from a really nice period listened to. The game is very simple to play, nothing very original but everything works well. I strongly recommend it.