If you’re already an Angry Birds fan, you shouldn’t think twice and even if you’ve never played the game before, there’s a gentle learning curve right from the start, and plenty of fun to be had.ĭevelopers Rovio have pulled it off: Angry Birds Space is both new and old, both different and familiar. If you want full resolution on both iPhone and iPad, you’ll have to pay out twice (a dollar for the iPhone version, three dollars for the HD iPad counterpart). On some levels, winning is all about directing debris on the correct orbital path to get the pigs.Īs the original game before it, Angry Birds is not a Universal app. Knock space-suited pigs just enough to reach orbit, and they plummet to their doom on the planetary surface. Smash the suit – or cause it to break by hitting it with flying debris – and the pig inside freezes. Some pigs lurk inside protective space suits. The game is full of lovely little touches. Remember your teacher saying physics was fun? Well, now you know. When my bird hits that gravity field, where will it go? How can I get it to hit the spot I need it to? Perversely, that sometimes means launching your birds in directions you’ve never launched them before – such as away from the target, so they can loop round a planet and hit it from the other side. You have to think in multiple dimensions. But as soon as they hit a gravity field, they get pulled inwards.Īnd that’s where you suddenly find yourself playing a very different, very new kind of Angry Birds. In empty space, your birds will fly in a straight line (going on forever, Frank Poole from 2001-style, if you let them). But this time the pigs have built their ridiculous fortresses on planets, moons and asteroids, and each of these has its own gravity field. You still have the birds, and you still have the pigs. But importantly, the same rules of physics mean that objects move differently in space, and that’s the hook behind the game. One of the important aspects of the original Angry Birds was that it was a physics game, and what you’ll notice straight away with Angry Birds Space is that it is still a physics game.
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