Look doesn’t do much except give you a bit of color commentary. There are usually four options to rely on when gathering information from the various wild characters you’ll meet during your adventure. Most of your time will be spent speaking to people, collecting clues, and interrogating suspects. My favorite though has to be the posters in the back of Czar Club that slightly change the title of real movies and animalizes them.Ĭhicken Police is a visual novel/point n click type of game with some investigative elements thrown in. Besides the obvious Big Sleep quote in the intro, you can also find a bookstore named Chandler’s and an old falcon private eye going by the alias “Filmar Low”, which is an obvious reference to Philip Marlowe, one of the most famous and prolific characters of the hardboiled detective genre. There are many genre references to be found, Raymond Chandler being the most prominent. Chicken Police is chock-full of every detective film-noir cliché you could imagine, but it is all done in a way that feels more like a loving homage than a thin veneer pasted on by someone who did a quick Google. Whereas Marty is still young and a bit naive, Sonny is much older and experienced, not to mention still sharp as a tack, despite his drinking habit. The back-and-forth between two buddy cops makes for some entertaining dialogue and situations. Marty MacChicken is as big and brash as he is gun-crazed, and he is the perfect foil to Sonny’s disenchanted old drunkard shtick. After deciding he would need backup for something this large, he brings his ex-partner back into the fold. As cynical and jaded as Sonny is, he can’t help but investigate when his ex-wife Molly’s name is brought up. There is a small catch: her mistress is Natasha Catzenko, performer/owner of Clawville’s fanciest club and the girlfriend of Ibn Wessler, who just happens to be the most influential gangster around. That is until one fateful New Year’s Eve he returns home to find an Impala named Deborah waiting for him in the dark, with a plea to help her mistress find out who has been sending her threatening messages. After a falling out with his partner, his wife and child abandoning him, and being suspended from the force, Sonny is content to spend his days at the bottom of a whiskey glass in his rundown hotel room while waiting for his upcoming retirement. Enter Sonny Featherland, one half of the legendary Chicken Police.
However, even the noblest of intentions can be led astray, as Clawville is now a den of excess and debauchery, rampant with crime, poverty, and an omnipotent gangster ruling from the shadows. Clawville was founded by a group of forward-thinking animals who dreamed of creating a utopia where predator and prey could live together in harmony. As absurd as it sounds, Clawville is what you would get if you combined Zootopia with Sin City.
The game takes place in the 1940s in a city called Clawville. This title may look humorous at first glance due to the use of anthropomorphic animals as characters (it should be said that there is, in fact, a good solid dose of humor to be found in here) but this is a sordid tale of sex, lies, and murder rated Mature 17+ by the ESRB. There have been a surprising number of animal detective-based pulp noir games released in the last few years, and once again I find myself reviewing such a title: Chicken Police - Paint it RED! from Hungarian developer The Wild Gentleman.
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