Rovio Entertainment, the company behind Angry Birds, has released the sequel to its highly addictive game for Android five years after the original game was launched to mobile gamers who eagerly and angrily tried to defeat the evil pigs by using birds to shoot at them. Angry Birds has been one of the most popular mobile games, and we’ve seen its several versions ever since it launched back in 2009. Now, it is back in the form of a sequel – Angry Birds 2 – on Android and iOS.
The game available for download on Google Play store and Apple App store. It is a free app, but comes with in-app purchases. With over 1.5 billion downloads, the Angry Birds franchise certainly needs no introduction. The only question that remains is: How many of you are going to download Angry Birds 2?
Angry Birds 2 starts a new era of slingshot gameplay with super stunning graphics, challenging multi-stage levels, scheming boss pigs and even more destruction. Some of the changes in the new game include ability to choose your bird, new multi stage level, challenge other players and default the boss pigges.
Most of the avians in the game are similar to the classic angry birdies, but there are a bunch of new ones. The gameplay is also pretty similar to the one of the original game, but it's been improved in many ways, of course. The levels are multi-stage now, which means that you will have to destroy a couple of pig fortifications, as well as the pigs themselves, before you successfully pass the level; there are also boss battles now!
One of the new additions that we liked the most was the player's ability to choose exactly what beast to flick next, unlike the original Angry Birds game that forced you to slingshot the avians in a predefined order.
There are other changes too. Angry Birds 2 has been out in beta since June, under the name "Angry Birds: Under Pigstruction," and we didn't like it very much, mainly due to the game giving you a finite number of lives which you could only increase by waiting, watching ads — or spending money. We'll soon take a more detailed look at the finished game and see what has changed since the beta.
We slogged through the 67MB download on Google Play, and upon installing the app, you're required to download even more in-game data before before being presented with an option to play. It certainly kills the instant gratification aspect of the app. If there was a way to skip these cinematics, a lot of us bandwidth starved users would certainly appreciate it.
After several minutes, you're eventually whisked into a godmode screen from where you can see the levels ahead of you. Some of the more welcome gameplay tweaks include the fast-forward button, which speeds up the time between your moves. It still takes about a minute before you can get a couple of shots in as there are dialog boxes for in-game rewards that you have to cycle through - an incredibly annoying aspect of the game that's crucial to Rovio's freemium strategy.
Best of all is the game is completely free, though there are naturally some in-app purchases you can make to enhance your experience. The download is at Google Play right now so be sure to give it a spin during some downtime today!