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Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, Linux • 2012

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Quick resume

Annihilate an evil penguin regime in this cinematic platform adventure game offering full solo and co-op campaigns.

Global score

80/100

Genres

Adventure, Indie, Shooter, Platform

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    Pros

    • Unique and humorous story
    • Excellent soundtrack
    • Stylish cartoon graphics
    • Local and online co-op modes
    • Engaging mix of shooting and puzzles

    Cons

    • Short single-player campaign
    • Limited weapon variety
    • Some control stiffness
    • Online co-op connectivity issues
    • Repetitive gameplay elements

    Motivations

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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      "Players enjoy the humorous, whimsical world and music as a lighthearted escape from real life."

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Competition. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Fellowship, Leadership.

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    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
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    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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