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Angry Birds Review- Review Introduction

This is a review of Angry Birds- Kindle Fire edition. Published by Rovio Entertainment, Ltd., Angry Birds HD is priced at $0.99 and is rated 4.0 stars with almost 500 customer reviews.

Angry Birds Review- Main Takeaways

I admit it. I’m an Angry Birds addict. It all started when my mom was out visiting me last summer. I’d heard so much about Angry Birds, but back then it was only available on i-devices. So when she came to visit, I took the chance to play it on her phone one day. Oh, so addictive. I had way too much fun playing, and was sad that I couldn’t play it after she left. Last fall I got a phone that could play Angry Birds, and it was the first game I downloaded. I quickly got back into playing it all the time and I was so excited to be able to play it in large format on my Kindle Fire after I received it as a Christmas gift.

This is Tarzanphan – Jen is my daughter and I can be blamed for letting her get addicted to Angry Birds and blessing her with the Kindle Fire. In return, she taught me how to play Angry Birds yesterday over skype and now I can blame her for addicting me.

I still play Angry Birds almost every single day. It is part of my time-killing routine, in doctor’s offices, waiting at the train tracks, while on hold on the phone, etc.

The premise of Angry Birds is very simple- launch the Angry Birds at the evil Green Pigs!

Ok – still trying to figure out why the pigs are green and how both pigs and birds can build slingshots and towers. 

The levels start out simple, with the red bird and a basic structure protecting a few pigs. You have to carefully launch the birds to destroy the structure and kill the pigs. The fewer birds you use, the better. Destroying all the pigs automatically earns you one star, and you can earn more points by destroying more of the structure, using fewer birds, and demolishing ‘extra’ items in the scene, with the goal of earning 3 stars on every level.

It’s a good thing it started out simple or I would have never got addicted.  Having Jen tell me about pinching the screen helped a lot. No wonder I failed miserably when I tried to play the game a year ago!I have to admit it was kind of fun being able to destroy things.  Good way to release frustration- as long as I stayed ahead of the frustration that a few of the levels caused me.

As you progress through the game, you unlock more birds with special skills, such as the blue ice bird, that turns into 3 little birds when you tap the screen and can destroy three times as many blocks and pigs, or the bomb bird, which is fairly self-explanatory.

You must kill all the pigs on a level to be able to move on to the next level, which is challenging at times. However, once you beat the first few levels in the initial section, the remaining level sets open up and you can start to play through those as well when you get stuck.

I’m sure I was very entertaining to watch as I learned to play this game.  Am I the only one who ends up yelling at the screen and cursing the structures? And how come tilting the Kindle Fire screen doesn’t make the structures tumble down a little faster?  Guess I’ll have to keep playing to figure it all out.

There are 8 sets of levels currently in Angry Birds, with some fun titles and themes; Poached Eggs, Mighty Hoax, Danger Above, The Big Setup, Ham ‘Em High, Mine and Dine, Birdday Party, and Surf and Turf. There is also a special section called Gold Eggs, where you can access levels that you have unlocked by finding ‘hidden eggs’ in various levels throughout the game.

Some tips and tricks for making it easier to play the game:

• If you pinch the screen, you can zoom out or zoom in so that you can see the entire playing area at once.
• After you launch your first bird on each level, you can see the path it flew. It’s easy to adjust your flight path for your remaining birds based on that track.
• Don’t be afraid to restart a level! If you hit the pause button in the top left corner, a menu pops out giving you the choice to restart, go back to menu, or continue playing. Sometimes it’s easier to just restart, rather than keep hoping you’ll magically kill all the pigs with one last bird.
• Remember each bird has a different weight, and a different trajectory, so adjust as you throw them.
• Experiment! Sometimes the best way to get to the pigs isn’t the obvious path. Launch the birds higher up, try knocking blocks out from under them.

Restarting was good. Sometimes – if I got stuck on a level I would just practice with the birds to figure out how to beat the level.  Other times – I would go play a difference set for a few games, then come back and attack the level that blocked me before.

Angry Birds Review- Conclusion and Overall Rating

If you couldn’t already guess, I give this app 4.5 stars. The only reason I dock points from it is that I wish you could skip a level, or rearrange the birds at least to make playing easier. I’ve been stuck on a couple levels for a few weeks now, and I’m so close to being able to get that all coveted 3-star score if I could just rearrange the order! Don’t blame me if you get addicted- blame Tarzanphan!

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