Alfred Chicken

The graphics are big, bright and quirky and the soundtrack is a delight to the ears. The gameplay is just about right, appealing to kids and adults alike.

With its much enhanced graphics, superb bouncy soundtrack and immense playability Alfred proves to be a bit of a corke, and it's certainly one of the finest platform games you'll see on your CD32 at the mo'.

A great game, a really, really excellent game, but may not appeal to hardcore death fans.

Like the A1200 version, the graphics are really excellent, with neat, colourful sprites and some very smart levels. But what really makes the game a winner is its overall quirkiness. Collect watering-cans to gain extra lives, open a can of worms to get a shield, and balance on pop cans to reach higher platforms. It is not all leaping and killing though, there are puzzles to be solved, bonus games to be played and secret rooms to be found. Altogether these elements make Alfred Chicken completely addictive and totally weird. One of the best platform games out on CD and, like Arabian Nights, it's an essential purchase.

A fine figure of a game, but one which just takes too long to play for most peoples taste.

Play the part of fowl guy, Alfred Chicken, in a 21-level comedy action game. Puzzles and three Meka Chicken bosses stand between Alfred and the missing eggs he must collect. Cluck, cluck!

Nothing stunningly original or frighteningly intriguing, but it all succeeds due to some perfectly fine tuned gameplay. Challenge and intricacy increase steadily throughout, and a key indicator of a truly well-designed game, this - the restart points are perfectly spaced and placed. Okay, okay, fair enough. Let's not lose control. It's still just a platform game, slightly repetitive, not much of a graphical treat, and unlikely to be looked at again once completed. But the execution can't be faulted and, bluntly, I liked it.

There aren't many NES games being released these days, so eight-bit fans ought to flock to Alfred Chicken. This is no throwaway game. You'll be cooped up with Alfred for a while.

Alfred Chicken puts on a fast-paced, brain-draining platform performance. Action game fans can definitely put their eggs in Alfred's basket.

This takes the prize for the month's most-improved-on-the-CD32 game, with the addition of some pleasant parallax-scrolling backdrops that weren't in the rather sparse-looking A500 version, as well as the usual CD soundtrack and 562 colour graphics.

Für einen Hit reicht es trotzdem nicht, dazu hätten die Programmierer mehr Tempo und neue Ideen ins Spiel bringen müssen. Das soll jedoch Plattformfans mit A500/600 nicht von der Bekanntschaft mit Alfred Chicken abhalten, lediglich Besitzern eines A1200 oder CD32 sei (noch) etwas Zurückhaltung empfohlen – ihnen serviert man das Hendl nämlich schon bald in extrabunten Spezialmenüs!

Alfred Chicken is, as I've said a playable platformer, but it does suffer from a couple of problems. The biggest has to be your mode of attack. Like all platform titles you kill the bad guys by jumping on them. However, you have to hit them head first, by leaping into the air, and then diving onto them. If you miss, they can just walk into you, killing you instantly. Needless to say, this can be very frustrating. Also, Alfred doesn't move very quickly. Although he is beautifully animated and designed to the point where you just want top him up and cuddle him, he just can't get out of the way of the faster moving enemies. For example, if you jump and discover something is bearing down on you, you can rarely move him out of the way in time, so you are killed on contact and returned (annoyingly) to the point of the last-released balloon. Alfred Chicken had all the makings of a classic platform game, but sadly a few niggles have left the gameplay slightly irritating.

Man blir ganska snabbt fängslad och spelet är actionfyllt på det rätta sättet, dvs utan att vara stressigt. Man hoppar på studsbrädor och flyger all världens väg. Och det är ju kul. Man blir gripen väldigt snabbt och kan bli sittandes i timtal. Ett bra spel alltså, men med lite yttre skönhetsfläckar.

A cute game that the younger ones will enjoy more. Alfred is a slow-moving game requiring more strategy than being able to run, jump and grab items. It takes a while to get in the swing of it though.

The graphics are big, bright and bouncy although the sprite can be tricky to control and you don't get to do a great deal of interesting things. Rather dull platform fayre.

While Alfred Chicken's graphics and sound give it a cartoon feel, don't be lulled into thinking the action is child's play --- the puzzles can get quite complex. And the fact that Alfred perishes each time he's hit can be a major cause of frustration, though frequent balloon checkpoints keep you from backtracking too much when you restart. With one wrong move leading to chicken dinner, however, and no continues or passwords to help you out, you need a lot of patience to sit down very long with Alfred Chicken.

Argh. I hate games like this. What can you say about this platform game? It's not original, there's nothing particularly wonderful about the gameplay or the graphics or the sound - a reviewer's nightmare.

Alfred Chicken bjuder inte på några nyheter men det är välgjort. Alla ni som är hoppa-springa-spelsfanatiker, kolla upp det här spelet. Det kan förstöra er nattsömn.

Overall, Alfred Chicken is just one of those games. I'd recommend leaving it. Like the last donut, it will probably just make you sick.