Despite it's silly concept, Chicken Invaders: The Next Wave is a pretty solid shoot 'em up. It follows a tried and tested model, of varied waves of chickens that have to be avoided and destroyed, and you will collect power ups to make the job easier as you progress. As is traditional, when you die you not only lose a life, but your power-ups too.

Chicken Invaders: The Next Wave is only really unusual because of the chickens - everything else about it make this a pretty standard game. If you enjoy the genre, you'll enjoy this. The end of level bosses are a bit disappointing, while the variation in wave formation keeps the game interesting.

Keep the egg laying aliens at bay in Chicken Invaders: The Next Wave.

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The nightmare before Christmas? Almost. In Christmas Crisis you need to help out Santa delivering presents by guiding his sleigh and dropping presents over houses, whilst avoiding jets and airplanes. The game is certainly a good idea for the holidays and an original adaptation of the Space Invaders style, yet Christmas Crisis is on the whole rather disappointing.

First of all, and this may sound cheesy, but I quite like when there's a little introduction to the game, or at least some sort of setting. Christmas Crisis drops you right in without any explanation as to why you need to replace Santa. There's only a small window to explain the controls.

Movements in Christmas Crisis are simple. Use your arrow keys to navigate your sleigh and the space bar to shoot the presents onto houses. On the whole though, they feel a bit clunky, and there's a little delay every time you move the sleigh. Christmas Crisis is a bit difficult and I couldn't manage to hit all the houses in the first level. Getting used to it doesn't take much though, but the increase of planes flying around as you pass levels does make it challenging.

Even though the game lacks an introduction, and controls are clunky, Christmas Crisis is an OK time waster for the holidays.

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