My Luke Skywalker Angry Bird has crossed the blazing sands of Tatooine, survived the icy plains of Hoth, trained with Yoda in the swamps of Dagobah, fought Boba Fett in Cloud City, and is ready to take down Pig Vader in the final levels of the second Death Star. With a little luck, the right trajectory, and the boosted Force powers I picked up several levels ago, he might just make it.
Angry Birds Star Wars has moved beyond its traditional mobile operating system roots. After four years of dominating iOS and Android sales, the franchise has spun off, in Star Wars form, to current-generation consoles. The game re-creates the original Star Wars trilogy in Angry Birds form and retells the story of Luke Skywalker, complete with the birds as the Rebel Alliance and the pigs as the Empire, in an amusing adaptation of the trilogy.
When your birds' powers just aren't enough, the Millennium Falcon has been transformed into the Mighty Falcon, wherein a probe can be flung toward your opponents and set off, and the Millennium Falcon scorches the general area with laser fire. You have to save up the stars you collect by beating each level to use the Mighty Falcon, but it's fun to call in a laser-based air strike when you want to wipe out a few holdout enemies.
While Star Wars Angry Birds' single-player mode pulls out all the stops, the multiplayer mode is bland by comparison. Two players can fling birds cooperatively or compete for high scores, but either way, Angry Birds Star Wars makes for a lackluster shared experience. It's a shame these modes play so closely to the traditional Angry Birds structure, rather than bring something novel to the mix. As it is, taking turns with a friend doesn't bring anything meaningful to Angry Birds that you couldn't experience on your own, even in the game's mobile versions.
And that's where things get sticky. All of this content is available for under $10 in total on mobile platforms, yet runs a hefty $39.99 on console. Granted, Angry Birds Star Wars arrives with a hefty amount of content--about 100 levels to play through, some cool bonus levels, and character stickers and concept art to unlock--but that's a huge premium to pay for the luxury of playing Angry Birds on your television screen.
It's hard to overcome the price point, as charming as Angry Birds Star Wars is. The difference in price between platforms is substantial, but the difference in gameplay is not. Yet you shouldn't outright sentence Angry Birds Star Wars to the Great Pit of Carkoon to be slowly digested over the course of 1,000 years. The game's midi-chlorian counts may not be through the roof, but not every bird needs to be a Jedi Master to have value in this galaxy.
Without any warning, Rovio has just issued an update to its Bronze Award-winning physics-puzzler Angry Birds Star Wars II.
In this update, you'll find eight secret levels, which you can unlock by finding Treasure Maps. You'll also find four new characters that you can earn or purchase. They are Hologram Darth Sidious, Silver C3PO, Red Battle Droid, and Shadowtrooper.
Lastly, there are four n...
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Without any warning, Rovio has just issued an update to its Bronze Award-winning physics-puzzler Angry Birds Star Wars II.
In this update, you'll find eight secret levels, which you can unlock by finding Treasure Maps. You'll also find four new characters that you can earn or purchase. They are Hologram Darth Sidious, Silver C3PO, Red Battle Droid, and Shadowtrooper.
Lastly, there are four n...
