I’m sure most people with a smartphone have got Angry Birds on it. The game is very addictive and great fun – and totally harmless.
Apart from the original Angry Birds, there is Angry Birds Rio and Angry Birds Seasons – the latter two are updated regularly with new levels. But I saw in one of the tech journals that a new game – Angry Birds Space – had been released and had notched up over 10,000,000 downloads in just three days.
For anyone who doesn’t know, the game is about firing angry bird characters from a catapult at various structures, the aim being to knock out all the green pigs (who have stolen the angry birds’ eggs, hence the reason they’re angry). Well, in the Rio version it’s about knocking out monkeys, too, but the same idea. The backdrops are beautiful in all the versions, and in Seasons, as well as knocking out wooden structures, there are also snow and ice blocks.
Different angry birds do different amounts of damage. There are ones that explode, ones that puff up into big balls, ones that drop exploding eggs, ones which accelerate, ones which break into groups, ones which boomerang backwards, and so on.
Well, I downloaded Space, and it is brilliant. This time you are playing with gravity, and although you have angry birds with various functions as already described, their actions are affected by small planetoids, atmosphere, and the gravity-free environment away from the planetoids.
In addition, there are some new angry bird characters with new features.
Whoever programmed it is a genius.
It runs very smoothly on my HTC Sensation XE, but you don’t actually need a smartphone – you can play it on your PC. And it is completely free.
I’ve got three stars on all levels of the first three games (well, apart from the latest update to Rio, with two levels sitting at two stars). When I upgraded my phone I was worried I might have to start all over again, but there is a utility you can download which backs up your progress and then you can import that to your new phone when you’ve installed the games.
Space is going to be fun!