Most races are a total blowout, as long as you didn’t pick one of the slowest characters, especially if a race spans multiple laps. There are some unimaginative items, such as oil slicks and a shield, but they don’t help spice things up much.
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There is no sense of speed, which isn’t helped by weird pauses where the game will occasionally stutter, and the drifting ability seems largely useless as it only slows the driver down since most corners can be taken without ever braking or drifting. While the dull track designs don’t help matters, it’s the poor racing that really does the game in. Out of the eight tracks, only Factory was interesting, as it was filled with alternate pathways that were tricky to take, and the Castle stage was relatively solid due to how large it was and how it encouraged players to actually look at the map to figure out where they should be going, a rarity in kart racers. Some are based on areas in the Crazy Chicken extended universe, such as the farm where the first game took place and the castle stage, but others are just generic locales such as Winter, Island, Mine, Swamp, and Egypt all of which are truly masterful level names. The courses themselves are rarely intriguing and are mostly comprised of generic environments. It’s surprising considering this is a sequel, making it hard to imagine how little the original Crazy Chicken Kart had to offer. There are only a few options to choose from, like the number of opponents and how many laps a race is. To say this is a barebones title is an understatement. Once you’ve picked a character, which is important as there are no classes or difficulties beyond the racer’s stat points, you get to select to play one of the eight tracks or one of the game’s two championship tournaments.
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The frog isn’t even given a name beyond Frog! The lack of creativity is incredible, which makes the success of this series all the more baffling. Seeing how I was not raised in Germany, there’s no attachment here, but it is bizarre to see a racer with such generic characters.
The characters in Crazy Chicken Kart 2, however, are the crazy chicken himself, Moorhuhn, a mole named Hank, Pumpkin, who lives up to his name as a pumpkin, Turtle (no, not the one from Entourage), Frog, an even crazier chicken named Lesshuhn, and Snowman. Thanks to the popularity of Mario Kart, kart racers typically rely on a cast of recognizable characters. While the series’ popularity has waned, nostalgia-filled ports have been coming out on PlayStation 4, with the latest being Crazy Chicken Kart 2, which is yet another bad game, even by 2004 standards.
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While rooted in obscurity to western audiences - and for good reason since they’re not particularly good games - what began as a simple shooting game on PC that had players blasting chickens with a mouse cursor became a successful gaming mascot that would later star in an animated series, some adventure games, and even a virtual pinball title. If you’re not familiar with the Crazy Chicken series, then you’re likely not from Germany, as Moorhuhn, as it is known in its native country, was a cultural phenomenon in the early 2000s.
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