After defending Earth in the previous game, our anonymous hero just wants to have a double chicken burger special, but soon enough he finds out the main assault of furious chicken is yet to come. The chicken's true plan is to invade each planet on the solar system and form a chicken empire. Our hero must jump into his spacecraft once again and promise the future of mankind...and chicken burgers.

Chicken Invaders 2: The Next Wave is the second game in the Space Invaders clone series. The player controls an anonymous space pilot which must clear 110 waves of space chicken (including 10 secret ones) and reach their leader - a giant laser-shooting egg.

The player has 3 types of weapons: red shots (rapid but weak), green shots (slower but powerful) and yellow shots (weak but penetrating laser). Each weapon can be upgraded by collecting power-ups up to level 10 with a secret 11th level.

Throughout the game the player receives various bonuses according to his performance (quick wave clear, minimum shooting, collection of all points and more), and additional points can be obtained by collecting items dropped from dead chicken.