One of my favorite genres on the iPhone has become the “click-n-shoot” game. It’s like playing Duck Hunt without feeling guilty about being so close to the screen. Within the genre I tend to gravitate towards the lighthearted variants, and none seem to be more humorous than the fowl hunting games. Crazy Turkey Blast joins the rank of such games on the iPhone, and while it might not have some of the creative nuances like hedgehogs playing poker or turkeys riding cows, the cool prize system and sheer variety of combinations of game elements make this one a real winner.

Here, Turkey, Turkey, Turkey

In this game you shoot turkeys. To make it out as more than that would be overkill. You tilt the device to move your sights around the screen, and press the screen to shoot. There’s a fire button, but you can actually press pretty much anywhere on the screen to shoot. There’s one screen that scrolls infinitely (okay, it really loops back around at one point but the appearance is an infinite scroll), and you get a certain amount of time to shoot as many turkeys as you can. So now you’re probably wondering why I would find this so cool. It’s the whole prize concept that clinches this game for me. You start out with your average garden variety blue turkey (you didn’t know turkeys were blue?), an average shotgun, and an average backdrop. You even start out with run of the mill background noises. There actually isn’t any music in the game unless you get the Wacky Music sound pack, but this is one of those times where you don’t really notice the lack of music so much.

You start out with 60 seconds and a 1x multiplier. For every turkey that you hit without a miss in between the multiplier goes up one. The multiplier is how many coins you get for hitting a turkey. The max multiplier is 25, and it will go down some – but not all the way – if you miss a turkey. At the end of each game you have the chance to spend your hard earned coins on prizes. Coins are also how you rank on the global leaderboards. It’s funny because before I got my iPod I wasn’t really much into the online aspects of gaming, and I still don’t care much for multi-player games. However, with things like leaderboards and achievements I’ve become a lot more interested in how I rank against others on some of the games I’ve been playing. I was actually #1 globally in this game for a brief period of time (maybe like a day or so).

Anyway, back to the prizes. Every major aspect of the game is changeable and themed. However, you can mix and match themes to suit your own tastes. Don’t like the standard trees – buy some doodle trees. Test your mettle against cyber, Santa or skeleton zombies. Pick the background sounds you like best (despite what I said earlier, it would be nice to have a couple of musical selections mixed in with the simple background noise packs). If you want to be charitable, you can even send the prizes you’ve purchased to a friend. The best part, though, is that if you follow EZone on Twitter they love to give away codes that will let you unlock prizes without the coins.

Give Your Friend A Blaster

Graphically this game is loads of fun. As can be expected from the best fowl shooters, the graphics are cartoony in nature, and that’s the way they should be. Each background theme is unique, each turkey has its own look (though the animations are the same), and each weapon has a unique look both when firing and when causing cartoon-like death. The sound effects vary greatly in quality, but honestly most of them get annoying after a while. That’s why it would be nice to have some actual music in the game.

This game is a lot of fun. There’s no simpler way to put it. If you want something that you can sit down and play for just a few minutes, only to realize that you’ve suddenly wasted hours for no apparently good reason, this is just the game to get. You’ll never regret your time spent with it, and it won’t take long before you’ll be trying to get into the top 10 in the global leaderboards. Just don’t kick me out of my seventh place slot, or I’ll have to send a horde of zombie turkeys after you.

Final Verdict: Recommended
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