Angry Birds 2 review – new twists on a familiar friend

Angry Birds is a popular puzzle game and you can find it at 9game.

Angry Birds 2? This is actually the eighth sequel to Angry Birds following the Seasons, Rio, Space, Slingshot Stella, Friends and two Star Wars games.

That’s just counting the ones that followed the original’s form: spin-offs exploring other forms of gameplay include Angry Birds Transformers, Angry Birds Epic RPG, Angry Birds Pop, Angry Birds Fight and Bad Piggies.

By calling this new game Angry Birds 2, though, its developer Rovio is signifying its status as something of a reboot: getting back to bird-slinging basics while bumping up the production values, and designing it from the ground up as a freemium game.

It’s the latter element that is both the biggest risk and biggest opportunity for Rovio. It’s a chance to catapult Angry Birds into the lucrative, billion-dollar-revenues world of mobile games like Candy Crush Saga and Clash of Clans. Yet if it’s bungled, also a chance to alienate fans – and their parents, in the case of kids who’ve made Angry Birds one of the biggest new children’s brands in recent years. A challenge Rovio has been grappling with for some time now: all those recent spin-off games have been freemium.

Have those lessons paid off? As a game, Angry Birds 2 does a lot of things really well, reminding you why the original hit was fuelled by word-of-mouth about its fun factor, rather than hype or blanket marketing.

On the freemium side, it’s far from the most aggressive mobile game in terms of forcing players towards in-app purchases, with video advertisements – hailed as a player-friendly device in recent mobile hit Crossy Road – taking some of the strain.

The way that Angry Birds 2 pulls on every freemium lever sucks some of the fun out of it for players who loved the franchise’s paid era (Angry Birds, Seasons, Rio and Space), although early reviews on Apple and Google’s app stores indicate no such qualms from the newer wave of mobile gamers.

And the kids thing? That’s still awkward, although not outrageous – and something for Rovio to worry about more than parents. But we’ll get to that later.

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