The Good
Extremely fun physics
Easy to pick up and play
200-plus levels.
The Bad
Limited strategy
Winning often requires luck.
Most casual news watchers are familiar with explosives that have names like "bunker busters" and "daisy cutters." However, in Rovio Mobiles popular game, Angry Birds, multicolored chickens can take on the properties of these same bombs when pushed to the limits by egg-stealing green pigs.
In Angry Birds, you have to use birds as missiles.
In Angry Birds, you have to use birds as missiles.
Explosive chickens, adorable as they are, would be pointless without big buildings to topple, and Angry Birds provides more than 200 of them, with more added all the time. You can thoroughly demolish anything from stone castles to glass houses as you punish those evil, egg-stealing pigs.
To play, you simply load up a chicken in your slingshot, pull back while setting your angle, and let go to start the destruction. Angry Birds gameplay is incredibly easy to understand, and the visual payoff for blowing stuff up is consistently impressive. Blue chickens split up in midair for a spread effect; heavy bomb chickens explode and send structures flying; and egg-laying hens let you deliver a yolky payload directly below.
You always receive the chickens in a particular order, which diminishes some of the strategy. Even though some chickens can be used to set up chain reactions, like using a burrowing hen to soften up a buildings stone exterior and then following up with a ticking explosive chicken to blast out the walls--you dont get to do this if you dont get the chickens in this order.
Angry Birds has more than 200 levels, with more added all the time.
Angry Birds has more than 200 levels, with more added all the time.
Although you might fling your chickens in the same spot each time, the games sensitive physics system usually gives different results. Its generally impossible to re-create specific trajectories and reactions, so theres some luck involved where obtaining a high score (and a full three-star rating) is concerned. There arent really any tangible benefits to completing every mission with a three-star score, besides boasting about your score on the online leaderboards, anyway. Angry Birds has some minor issues, but most of the time, you wont notice because youll be too busy trying to squish pigs and make full use of your chicken arsenal. The games weapons, physics, and varied levels are really quite excellent, and they make this military-farm-complex a whole lot of fun.
