Chicken Little takes place some time after the classic, "sky is falling..." story. Now our little hero is shunned from most of the town and considered crazy by more than one random kid. One day, he discovers that an alien invasion force has landed and has abducted one of his friends, Fish Out of Water. Now Chicken, Runt of the Litter (an over-sized pig) and Abby Mallard (AKA: "The Ugly Duckling") need to get aboard the spaceship and save both their friend and the world.
Chicken Little is a different game from most. It can't easily be fit into any particular genre because, even though there are several platformer-like levels, most of the levels you encounter are unique and so different from the others that the overall game just doesn't neatly qualify as any one thing. In the first few levels alone, I had Chicken doing everything from playing dodge ball to hunting for coins to keeping him from hitting trees as he flew around with a shaken up soda-pop strapped to his back.
I was amazed by the fact that I rarely found myself repeating mission styles and I could never really say,"I've seen all this game has to offer" until I had reached the end and seen the entire game. There are missions that will have you driving around town, playing baseball, racing down tubes, and practicing in a Space Simulator.
And,to top it off, not only do you get a wide range of mission types in the normal single-player mode, but there several multiplayer minigames to unlock and play through. Drone Dash has one player controlling the vehicle while the other controls the weapons in a co-op run to the finish line. Super Speedway is a quick race game where the two players drive three laps around the town. Saucer Shooter lets both players take part in the Saucer Simulator levels from the single player mode to see who is the best.
