Note: No chickens were harmed during the making of this game.
I have been very, very curious about Egg vs. Chicken for quite a while now, being another PlayFirst/GameLab production (the same people who brought us Diner Dash). I started playing it and I basically forgot about the rest of the world.
The Egg Liberation Front needs your help defending their headquarters from hordes of evil chickens. Sounds like a crazy story? Wait until you actually play the game. The craziness goes on and on.
While the Eggs question themselves about who came first – them or the Chickens – their fort is under attack. Roosters, hens and little chicks are coming at them from every side, pecking at the walls and trying to breach them. You must help the Eggs powering up their time machine and survive through the ages, so they can eventually discover who really came first.
Egg vs. Chicken is a strategic action/puzzle game that mixes slider puzzle mechanics with color combos and traces of an old classic, Rampart. The purpose is to slide the eggs around inside the fort’s walls to create combinations of three or more eggs of the same color and launch them at the incoming chicken armies.
overing above an egg. You can move one egg at a time or you can move entire rows in a single click/drag motion. You can also get rid of eggs you don’t want by double clicking them. To launch an egg combo, click it once – providing one of the eggs is standing in one of the launch arrows against a wall.
The main goal of a level is to defeat as many chickens as possible, to fill your Energy Egg meter. Each time you fill it, you get an Energy Egg, and as you advance you will need more of them to complete the level.
As you progress through the different stages, the chickens will be tougher. Some will be wearing armor, others will be throwing special attacks at you, some will be on fire, and every 10 levels you have a boss to kill. Fortunately, you will come across certain special eggs, each with a useful property. Aside from the basic white and brown eggs, you will find:
- Blue eggs, very useful against red chickens, they unleash an ice attack.
- Red eggs, to roast the nasty chickens with fire attacks.
- Black eggs, with more powerful attacks, they kill fire chickens in a single hit.
- Yellow eggs, perfect to electrocute those wearing metal armor.
- Rainbow eggs, act like a wildcard to match with any other color.
As you defeat the chickens, they will drop eggs that you pick up to use in your fort, as well as some useful power-ups. You will see mines, bombs, repair wrenches to fix your walls, paint buckets to change egg colors and freezing icons to hold the chickens still for a little while.
Playing the Story Mode will unlock the different Challenge Mode stages, where it’s every Egg for himself. The gameplay in Challenge Mode is endless; you play a continuous level until one of the chickens breaches your perimeter.
Egg vs. Chicken is a hilarious game, from the dialog in the storyboard to all the clucking, chirping, music and funny animations.
PlayFirst games are by norm tons of fun for everyone, very entertaining and addictive, and Egg vs. Chicken is no exception. Download the hour-long trial, I’m sure it will have you clucking with delight as well.
Special thanks to Kirem Weers and PlayFirst for providing the full version of this game.
Minimum system requirements:
- Windows 98, 2000, ME or XP
- Pentium III 600 MHz
- 128MB RAM (256 MB recommended for 2000/XP)
- 12 MB available disk space