Who doesn’t like playing Angry Birds – the game that swept
the gaming industry in December 2009? Rovio, the Finnish developer company,
developed the game for Apple’s iOS. Since then, over 12 million copies of the game
have been purchased from Apple’s App Stores, prompting the company to design
versions of the game for similar touch based smartphones.
The game is primarily inspired by a sketch of stylized
wingless birds that are launched at pigs stationed on or within various
structures, with intent to destroying all the pigs in the playfield. As players
advance the game, new birds appear with special abilities that can be activated
by the player.
The game begins with the basic Red Bird which can easily
break through glass material and can shatter wooden material; there’s nothing
special about this bird. The Blue Bird is small and is also known as Replicate
Bird as it replicates into 3 similar blue birds which scatter like a shot of a
shotgun when once clicked after the launch; this bird is usually used to break
through glass material. The next bird, my most favourite one, is the Yellow Bird which when clicked after the launch pierces through wooden material with a
force of a lightning dash. The next bird is the Black Bomb bird; as the name
suggests this fat round bird destroys the walls and other material in a bomb
explosion state. Next in the game level is the White Bomb-Egg Laying Bird which
wrecks the materials with its bomb egg and gets diffused itself; also known as
Pelican bird or Egg bird. The Green Bird or Toucan Bird or Boomerang Bird is
the next on the list which acts as a boomerang in mid air by swapping
directions once launched. The most powerful bird when it comes to physical
strength is the Big Brother Bird, the bigger, rounder version of the basic Red
Bird; completely shatters anything on its way. The other birds came in with the
various seasons like the Mighty Eagle, Blu, Blu and Jewel chained together and
the Orange Bird with their own strengths and special abilities.
The game was launched in a series of seasons that included
the Angry Birds Classic, Angry Birds Rio (with the movie Rio-based characters
and screenplay), and Angry Birds Magic (exclusively for the Nokia’s NFC-enabled
Symbian devices). Rovio announces Angry Birds Space release on March 22, 2012. The
game features anti-gravity shooting i.e. the birds will be launched and shot in
the absence of gravity on entirely new planets leading to new game-play
elements like slow-motion and lightspeed destruction. While Angry Birds Space
will feature the same level rating system, NASA assistance will bring in the
fun new game physics which was not felt in the earlier Angry Birds season of
Rio.
And what’s more to Angry Birds, is the fact that the game is
finally on Facebook with some social and competitive power-ups like sling
scope, king sling, super seeds and birdquake. But the game has not actually
started on the social site. Once you log into the app, you will be directed to
a page which will enable you to send a Valentine ’s Day e-card either to your
wall or to your friend’s wall. Just for logging in, you get free power-ups,
which Rovio says that you will receive them till Feb 16. How far will bringing the game on Facebook
enhance its popularity or make it a success is still something to find out
within a month or 2.
