It was in the Mag section of a newspaper that I came across this App called Angry Birds. An App that was supposed to be a rage with the owners of iPhones and iPod touch. Since, I'm technologically inferior I tend to rely a lot on these reviews while deciding what app or games to download in general. And I happened to browse through the App store and found the trial version of the app and installed it like I'd done with many others. Little did I know that this game would turn into an addiction and I would end up playing it for hours at an end so much so that the battery would drain out.
The basic premise of Angry Birds is very simple. There's a bunch of birds armed with special powers who have to knock down green pigs who've placed themselves very strategically. So you have to load the birds onto a catapult and stretch it enough so that they knock the pigs down. The birds go wheeeeee and knock down the grunting pigs who mock at you if you're unable to complete the level. Thereafter, you replay the game with even more vengeance only to realise that that one pig which is still alive is smirking and grunting and mocking you. In a span of 2 weeks I was able to complete all the levels in the trial version. I then happened to chance upon Ducks vs Hunters on Facebook which was as bad a copy of Angry Birds as Karishma ka Karishma is of Small Wonder. I eventually succumbed to the addiction and went ahead and bought the full version of the App from the App Store for $0.99. This also happened to be my first purchase ever from the App store.
As the levels progress and there are over 60 levels, the level of difficulty gets greater and bigger and more number of pigs begin to appear with helmets. They are now ensconced in concrete, wood and glass walls which require a minimum of three bird hits to topple them down. The choice or order of birds unfortunately doesn't rest on you and you wish at times that the game would function on motion sensors and then gravity would do it's job.
These are the stars of the game:
Black Bird: This bird is explosive..literally! Falls on the structures and blasts them like a thousand sticks of dynamite.
Yellow Bird: Crashes right through the structures. Extremely powerful and very useful for pig destruction.
Red Bird: The small one does little harm but the big one is one huge cannon ball..crushes the pigs like those obese aunties in the local trains who crush you while jostling for place.
Blue Bird: This bird may be tiny but it splits into three birds which may not be very destructive but nevertheless add to the interest value.
White Bird: This bird drops an egg which is supposed to be explosive but does as little damage to a pig as bird poop would do if it were to fall on someone's head.
Green Bird: The green bird is the worst of all. It acts like a boomerang but loses it's rebound tendencies as soon as it touches anything including a balloon. To be able to use this bird well, you need to have paid attention to your teacher in your physics and trigonometry classes.
You are also rated on your performance with one, two or three stars depending on how well you've performed. As for me, I'm still stuck on level 3-16...any ideas?
