Angry Birds for Android

We're huge fans of this game so we're pleased that it's now available for Android tablets, with the added bonus that it's completely free.




• PRICE FREE 

• COMPANY ROVIO www.rovio.com 

PROS
Free; Simple to master; Great fun

CONS
It's so addictive you might end up hooked

OVERALL SCORE ★ ★★★★

SPECIFICATIONS
Google Android 1.6 or later



Beware! Load Angry Birds onto your phone and your productivity will be shot.

Your significant other will feel overlooked, your children will cry for your attention; you, meanwhile, will be blissfully unaware of anything except an intense desire to fling cute-looking birds at cartoon pigs.

Now available on Android,Angry Birds is one of the most popular iOS games of all time - and with good reason. It's clever, it's entertaining, it's absorbing and it proves that a great game need not be overly complex to master.

The game is simplicity itself. Birds are loaded onto a slingshot, which you pull back with your finger.They are then flung at pigs, who protect themselves via a variety of increasingly complex fortifications.You can change the slingshot's angle and how much you pull it back. When you fling a new bird, you can see the trajectory of the previous one, so you can get an idea of what angle to use.

You begin with small red birds, but as the game progresses you unlock new ones with different abilities. For example, one bird drops eggs that explode on impact, while another can smash right through wooden obstacles. As the fortifications around the pigs become stronger and more complex, you'll need to develop strategies for breaking through and destroying those pesky pigs.

While the game play is identical to the original iPhone version, a tablet's larger screen has several benefits.Aiming is easier since your finger doesn't block out as much of the screen when pulling back on the slingshot.While the gameplay still spans across multiple screens when zoomed in, zooming out becomes a practical option for surveying the situation and lining up a shot - something that's difficult to do on the iPhone's smaller screen.

Verdict

The upshot? If you're a gamer, you'll want Angry Birds, and even if you're not you'll still want it. Just be prepared to lose a chunk of your life.



"You'll need to develop strategies for breaking through and destroying pesky pigs"



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