App Review: Angry Birds

App Review Number Two (Hey, that rhymes!)

Angry Birds

4½ /5 Stars

Everyone loves Angry Birds, including me. In fact my girlfriend bought me a t-shirt and one of those little glass figurine things you see at the end of the aisle at Meijer or whatever. What started out as a fun little game became a global (or at least national, I don't travel that much) sensation. Who isn't on the side of the cute little birds who got their eggs stolen by legless piggies? (Apparently these people)

     Everyone knows what the point of the game is, so I won't go into much detail, but basically you are the owner of a slingshot and a butt load of birds who each have different abilities (such as going fast, apparent cloning, pooping out bombs that look like eggs, and being suicide bombers). It is your job to fling these birds into poorly constructed piggy shelters. I am somewhat amazed at the construction abilities of the pigs, however, because they have no limbs whatsoever. Also, the pigs have helmets and facial hair.

In-game ads make me sad. Turning them off makes Piggy sad.

     Though this game has become a "must have" on the App Store and the Android Market, There are a few things I do not like about the game. First off comes something that is bugging a lot of people and that is the in-game ads. Yes, Angry Birds is a paid app with ads. Even though the ads are for other Angry Birds games, it's still annoying. Something that has been added recently is the ability to turn the ads off. this can be done my tapping the little mail man piggy on the bottom right of the screen. This also makes Mailman Piggy sad, which is fine, because isn't making piggies sad the point of the game anyway?  The other problem I've been having is that I lose sound after switching back to it from another app. Let's say I'm playing Angry Birds and I get a message on facebook. I go to the facebook app, read the message, then go back to Angry Birds; I no longer have any sound from the game. I have to completely close out the app then reopen it back up in order to hear anything. This is somewhat minor, but still an annoyance.

     Overall though, Angry Birds is a great game for wasting a few minutes, or hours, and deserves the fame it has today. But it doesn't deserve this.



     Thanks for reading this and leave a comment below on what you thought or other apps you may want me to review.
~JasonZak

I know I failed. You don't hafta be so smug about it you radioactive pig bastard.