Funbox Media is releasing Vegas Party and Chicken Range on the Nintendo Switch.
The first game is - as you might expect - a gambling simulation with support for 4 players:
Played as a race, the goal is to reach the end of the Strip before anyone else. Manage your token account in 10 gambling minigames, avoid the dangers like twisters and earthquakes, take advantage of your gaming skills and your good luck, trust no one and forget the meaning of the word "mercy" because it does not apply here!
Chicken Range, on the other hand, is a shooter where the object of the game is to "shoot the chickens using an array of different weaponry which you can also pay to upgrade." Chickens throw eggs at the screen to prevent successful shots, and ammo crates appear which allow you to restock on bullets.
Carry up to 6 weapons with you; only a couple are provided for free, the remaining weapons will need to be bought from the Range Shop, where you can also purchase extra ammo packs.
The game contains 8 different levels. Each level introduces different baddie chickens with varying difficulties to kill them due to enhanced protection gear
Both titles are listed for £19.99 on Amazon, with Vegas Party arriving on December 8th. Chicken Range has a February 28th 2018 launch date.
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I think this is not the third-party support we were all hoping for.
@Monkeido Get used to it. It's gonna be Wii 2.0 all over again.
Physical releases? Why?
Ummm....Nintendo need to get their head straight here. Nothing is wrong with smaller indie releases, but these two entries seem like cut-and-paste iOS games. I'd have the same reaction if Flappy Bird was announced to be releasing physical on Switch.
How about Netflix, Twitch, Hearthstone, Super Mario Run, Fire Emblem Heroes, Pokemon Go....it was starting off well with VOEZ but Nintendo's silence since then has been pretty concerning. I guess it takes the entire village to sell Splatoon2....
I love all the indies switch is getting but these look like Wii style shovel ware!!!
It's pretty safe to assume we have a potential GOTY here.
If it's any consolation these games are going to the PS4 and PSVita as well.
@antster1983 Well that makes sense, was wondering why a developer would release something like this as NS exclusive.
These have got "future collector's item" written all over them.
One of the reasons I'm not a collector.
I won the first Vegas Party for Wii at a stag and doe. I gave it to my mother, who later called me to tell me she threw it in the garbage.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh shovelware funbox why dont you just fun off
Vegas Party sounds like it could be a passable, if not unremarkable alternative to Clubhouse Games (would kill for a Switch sequel/port), so I may consider it if the price is right (i.e. under $20), but when I see the likes of Chicken Range, like similar "Chicken" games of years gone by, I'm reminded of the likes of whom have been catapulted to positions of authority, and suddenly the absurd no longer seems quite so.
@BraveFencerZan Have you been off-world? There's been a ton of good indie announcements since Voez.
@BraveFencerZan I could be mistaken, but the Switch doesn't have any kind of global positioning system in it, making running Pokémon GO impossible.
Oh God shovelware.
Let the second coming of the beast known as Shovelware be upon us!!
Please please Nintendo let's not let the Switch 3rd party support drop to the level of crappy mobile games.
Vegas Party was a Wii game. A bad one at that.
The other one looks like that Chicken Shooting game that was also on the Wii (which again was terrible).
Just to put a little damper on the Shovelware Howling, these Are multiplatform titles, not a reflection of the Switch being the next Wii.
That said, we always get a Casino Game on every system, it's just a shame no one seems to know how to make them good.
The Chicken Game sounds like it could be, at least, entertaining if it's not totally phoned in. I dunno anything about this studio though. Is there any video?
@thesilverbrick You're likely right, didn't even think of that.
@folkloner I said "Nothing is wrong with smaller indie releases". When I'm referring to VOEZ, I'm talking about more touch-based games (4 of my suggestions are on iOS/Android).
@KcebEnyaw
Yeah, every platform gets shovelware, some more than others. I've noticed Nintendo platforms tend to get way more flak for it though..
@Menchi187,
It already is, but I would call it Wii u 1.5 instead. Very small graphical improvement over Wii u.
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