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Revenge of the Birds
by Chris Cavanaugh
Angry Birds has soared The beauty in the gameplay is replay value, Angry Birds will
through the list of killer app that there is more than one way to quickly find its way to the top of
titles for the iPhone and iPod skin a pig, as players can topple any app library's pecking order.
touch, and it's not hard to structures using varied strategies.
see why. A red bird brings down lumber
but won’t penetrate concrete,
This highly accessible title has whereas the tri-splitting blue bird
players seeking revenge on a herd provides the best chain reaction.
of green pigs that have stolen a Figuring out which building
collection of bird eggs. Reprisal material to hit first and at what
comes in the form of slingshotting angle is part of the fun. Points are
the slighted birds into fortresses awarded for damage caused to the
sheltering the guilty swine. fortress, any destroyed pigs, and
Physics come into play as players each remaining bird. Players are
use the touch screen to control then rated up to three stars based
both the speed and angle in which on the level's overall score.
each bird is flung.
If there is any downside to Angry
Early levels are simple enough Birds, it's that it sometimes can
and work more as a tutorial for be too challenging. Some puzzles
the highly responsive controls, can take an hour (or more) to
but later levels become real solve, but when they are finally
melon-scratchers. Players are complete, your sense of
given a preset amount of birds satisfaction is that much grander.
that must be used wisely. Basic Earning only one star on a level is
red birds give way to more simply an unmet challenge, and
complex types, such as blue ones there are plenty of other
that split into three birds, yellow incentives to keep you playing.
ones that accelerate at your There are achievements,
command, and birds that explode leaderboards, golden eggs that
on contact. Different building unlock more levels, and free
materials also react to each bird updates that include new levels.
in different ways. An amazing deal for its amount of
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