The
Angry Birds are back for a new adventure in the
Star Wars universe. This time, you will have to lead the rebel birds to victory in their fight against the evil imperial pigs. The game will be available today for iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices, as well as Mac, PC and Windows 8.
Angry Birds Star Wars uses the same
gameplay mechanics as the original, with new additions such as lightsabers, blasters and Jedi powers. Furthermore, the birds level up as you play and improve their skills. The game has more than 80 challenging levels, which will take you on a journey from Tatooine to the dreaded Pig Star.
Gameplay-wise, it's a mix of all the previous Angry Birds games to date, including the basic bird-slinging action of the first three games in the series, and the gravity-ruled planetary action of
Angry Birds Space.
it's essentially a Best of compilation of Angry Birds so far, but with the Star Wars universe wrapped around it, starting with the TIE Fighters on the intro screen. with the proper sound.
The initial
Angry Birds Star Wars Download includes 80 levels split equally between two worlds: Tatooine and the Death Star. A further 40 levels are available in a third world, Dagobah, if you choose to buy it for an in-app purchase of $1.49, but the game also teases an upcoming free update with a fourth world, Hoth. There is also a set of bonus levels starring C-3PO and R2-D2 birds to unlock. The gameplay is familiar
Angry Birds - catapult birds to destroy all the pigs on a level, earning one, two or three stars depending how well you do it.
Within the worlds, you segue smoothly between levels offering the two flavours of Angry Birds (Space and non-Space). For example, the Death Star world starts you in Space, then moves inside, then back out again for a final Death Star trench run.
There are a number of other Star Wars additions. For example, a few levels into Tatooine, the red bird gets a light sabre, which you swing to destructive effect at any point during his flight by tapping the screen. He even has Luke Skywalker hair.
Meanwhile, the yellow bird now shoots lasers - complete with authentic Star Wars sound effects - the black bird can use The Force to send objects shooting off with a tap, and there's a heavy Chewbacca bird to barrel through obstacles.
The Pigs? They dress as stormtroopers, Darth Vader and even get to hop in Tie-Fighters and fire lasers of their own.
All this is more than just for show: it moves the
Angry Birds gameplay on a notch, particularly when lasers are involved. Think thwacking laser beams with the light sabre in mid-air to hit hard-to-reach pigs, or dislodging laser-firing enemies so they end up shooting their own side.
Rovio has also reworked its Mighty Eagle power-up: it's now the Mighty Falcon. When triggered, a Millennium Falcon flies onto the screen and lets loose with its lasers to (hopefully) reduce to dust a level that you've been struggling with.
You have a finite number of Mighty Falcons to use, although
Angry Birds Star Wars is pretty generous dishing more out as you progress through the game. You can also pay for them, though: from $1.49 for 20 through to $13.99 for 200.
Charging for power-ups can be controversial, but Rovio handles its IAP well. I manage to progress through all 80 of the game's preloaded levels without needing to buy any Mighty Falcons (and I did use a few). If $1.49 for another 40 levels seems steep, you can choose to wait for the free Hoth update instead.
There's a good 5-6 hours gameplay to be had working your way through the Tatooine, Death Star and Dagobah worlds by completing the levels with one, two or three stars.
Then there are a fair few more hours in store if you go back to nail three stars on every level, as a lot of
Angry Birds fans like to do. The iOS version builds in Apple's Game Center to compare friends' scores and in-game achievements.
Angry Birds has been an app store phenomenon since fairly early in its life, and to some extent its popularity since has been self-fulfilling: it was at the top of the charts, so millions, then tens of millions, then hundreds of millions of people downloaded it.
It's also a reminder that developer Rovio continues to put a lot of effort and craft into Angry Birds as a game, rather than just a brand to be milked.
So yes, there are new
Angry Birds Star Wars plush toys and heaven knows how many other bits of merchandise, but the game is also an imaginative evolution of the core bird-slinging mechanic, just as
Angry Birds Space was before it. Little touches - the new weapons - really do make a difference.
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