![]() Sitcoms, talk shows, news anchors, US senators, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Finnish airlines, telecommunications companies - I'll stop, but you get the picture. In addition to the 6 full-priced titles, handful of free trials and a spin off in the form of Bad Piggies Angry Birds game merchandise and references are everywhere. The Angry Birds game craze is difficult to grasp without looking at just how huge the franchise has become. But does the formula work? Will Star Wars fans cringe at the thought of a feathery Luke and Han, shot from a slingshot?Īnd more importantly - can Rovio keep churning out the same-old? The Saga So Far The latest is by far the franchise's most adventurous yet - Angry Birds Star Wars, a controversial pairing for two immediately recognisable brands. The recipe for success, or "milking it" was staring them in the face, and since then we've seen a total of 6 full-priced Angry Birds releases on iOS, Android and beyond. Angry Birds Star Wars is also available on iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 tablets, Kindle Fire, PC, and Mac.In late 2009 Finnish developer Rovio did what every small development studio aspires to do - made it big with a simple yet addictive game. ![]() This Portabliss is based on an iTunes Store download of Angry Birds Star Wars HD for iPad, available now for $2.99. But if you are like me, and are eyeing this Force-wrapped crossover with curiosity and trepidation, then maybe now's the time to put away your assumptions and give Angry Birds one more go. If you're not like me, and you've played every Angry Birds, then chances are you already have an opinion on Angry Birds Star Wars. Yes, it's still not nearly as funny or wacky as it likes to think it is, but with the Star Wars spin that's easier to forgive. The 80 or so levels aren't repetitive, the physics aren't fussy, and the difficulty isn't prone to annoying spikes. But what I noticed most as someone returning to Angry Birds is how much tighter the series is now. There are other clever Star Wars touches, like the Darth Vader pig keeping his minions afloat with the Force, or having a level set in the famous Death Star trench run. Having said all that, Han Solo's mid-air, manuallydirected laser pistol is a close second. Rovio helpfully includes a few levels with piles of debris just waiting to be flung into the faces of Imperial swine, and getting all of them with one Force push is very satisfying. There's a real skill to activating it at the right time and in the right direction to create ultimate havoc. The one I most enjoyed was Obi Wan Kenobi's Force push. Each character has an ability that's true to its source, but also unique and part of a diverse, interesting arsenal. What surprises me is how well thought out the Star Wars additions are. ![]() There's a lot of fun messing around with gravitational physics, and it's a no-brainer that Rovio re-introduced it for Angry Birds Star Wars. It's as expected, then, but what's slightly less obvious is the space bit comes from previous entry Angry Birds Space. %Gallery-170698% Angry Birds Star Wars takes the flinging of birds into pigs, chucks it into space, and dresses it up all force-ified. I figured I didn't have much to lose beyond three bucks and a few hours. So a combination of the two was curious to me, rather than potentially rage-inducing. As much as I was unimpressed by Angry Birds, I wasn't that unimpressed. ![]() As much as I like Star Wars, I've never liked the series that much. Admittedly, some of our group only returned to deride this new game's pop-culture union, which represented how big bags of money can lure you to the dark side (again). I'm not the only one who played Angry Birds, wasn't that impressed, and so avoided the series evermore until the day Angry Birds Star Wars showed up.
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