Angry Birds 2 (from English - "Angry Birds 2"), formerly known as Angry Birds Under Pigstruction, is an arcade genre video game of 2015, developed by the Finnish company Rovio Entertainment and the thirteenth game in the Angry Birds series, as well as a direct continuation of the original Angry Birds . In the game, a new bird appears called Serebryanka, spells instead of bonuses or Power-Ups, and the action takes place at multi-stage levels. On March 5, 2015, the game was introduced to a limited circle of people in the Canadian App Store , an app store for iOS , called Angry Birds Under Pigstruction, and on July 30, 2015, the game was released worldwide on iOS and Android systems. During the first 12 hours, the game was downloaded by users more than 1 million times, after another day it reached 5 million downloads. After 5 days and 12 hours, two more news came: the game was downloaded 20 million times, and the fact that all players combined used a slingshot more than 1.4 billion times a week after the game was released. On August 9, it became known that all players in total had completed 300 million levels. On August 13, another news came: the game was downloaded 30 million times [1] .
| Angry birds 2 | |
|---|---|
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| Developer | Rovio Entertainment |
| Publisher | Rovio Entertainment |
| Part of a series | Angry birds |
| Date of issue | July 30, 2015 |
| Version | 2.30.0 |
| Genre | arcade |
| Technical details | |
| Platforms | iOS Android |
| Game engine | Unity |
This part was the first, which received a serial number. We are talking about the fight of birds with pigs who steal their eggs.
Content
Gameplay
The basic principle of the game has not changed. Users are offered to ram the fortifications of pigs made up of various materials, shooting at them with a slingshot with birds-shells. Among the innovations - the ability to choose which birds to shoot (before it was necessary to launch them at enemies in a certain order), as well as special spells - for example, you can fill up pigs with a bunch of gold ducks or wrap all fortifications in ice. From time to time there are battles with bosses. Both birds and spells are now marked on cards. Of the entire deck, three are simultaneously available. Material vulnerable to attacks of the selected bird is highlighted. Successes are expressed in glasses and stars.
A new bird, Serebryanka, while activating its ability, makes a dead loop in the air and rapidly falls down. Red bird Red gained the ability to scatter objects with his cry.
The percentage of destruction is entered into the game, which measures the destruction and, when filled, gives a new card, as a rule, similar to the last used one. In case of failure, you can now restart the level by paying a certain amount of gems received for passing the game or making payment with real money. If there are not enough gems, the player can replay the level, losing one life. The lives are initially given 5 and over time the lost ones resume.
Angry Birds 2 has a system of achievements and competitions with friends. At the end of 25 levels, access to the Arena opens, where you can compete with other players from around the world, passing endless levels with interchangeable sublevels. Like Angry Birds Epic, participants are divided into leagues according to their success. Between levels or for participation in the Arena, the player finds feathers that increase the level of a certain bird. Improved birds bring more points.
The graphics have become more detailed and animated. So before the start of each level, you can see how the fortifications are formed, and after the attack, debris and pigs can "fly out into the screen." Animated inserts are demonstrated before boss fights. At the levels there are auxiliary objects, like flowers, which throw debris that fell on them and pigs in the direction in which the flower is exposed.
Immediately after release, 9 episodes became available: Feathery Hills, New Pork City, Eggchanted Woods, Chirp Valley, Shangham, Greasy Swamp, Greenerville, Steakholm, Misty Mire.
Criticism
| Reviews | |
|---|---|
| Overall rating | |
| Aggregator | Evaluation |
| Gamerankings | 65.92% [2] |
| Metacritic | 66/100 [3] |
| Criticism | 57/100 [4] |
| Foreign editions | |
| Edition | Evaluation |
| Ign | 6.7 / 10 [5] |
| jeuxvideo.com | 14/20 [6] |
| The guardian | [7] |
| Forbes | 4/10 [8] |
| Russian editions | |
| Edition | Evaluation |
| Games.Mail.Ru | 6.0 / 10 [9] |
| StopGame.ru | prohodnyak ( ) [10] |
According to the aggregators of reviews, the game received mostly marks slightly above average. The game ratings were: on Metacritic - 65.92% [2] , on GameRankings - 66/100 [3] , on “Criticism” - 57/100 [4] .
Practically all elements of the game were highly appreciated: gameplay, level design, graphics and sound. At the same time, critics called the main drawback of the game the transition to the freemium monetization system, due to the aggressive nature of which the gaming atmosphere suffers [11] , which is particularly pronounced in the process of playing at more difficult levels [12] . According to the publication Kotaku, the game is the “worst kind of free-to-play ”: the player has five lives, which are replenished in a timer. After exhausting lives, the player must wait. Lives are spent when the player runs out of cards with birds until the end of the level. While waiting for replenishment of lives, a player can play in tournament or survival modes with a certain set of cards with birds, but the player can start the game in these modes only once every three hours. If a player does not want to wait, he can buy extra lives for gems, some of which are given to the player for free after downloading the game. After the initial gems are exhausted, the player can either buy gems for real money, or get them for free after watching a promotional video [13] .
Notes
- ↑ Olga Krapivenko. Game industry for the week. 3–9 August 2015 . 3DNews Daily Digital Digest (August 9, 2015). The appeal date is April 28, 2018.
- ↑ 1 2 Angry Birds 2 (English) . GameRankings . The appeal date is April 27, 2018.
- ↑ 1 2 Angry Birds 2 (English) . MetaCritic . The appeal date is April 27, 2018.
- ↑ 1 2 Angry Birds 2 . Criticism . The appeal date is April 27, 2018.
- ↑ Justin Davis. Angry Birds 2 Review (English) . IGN (5 August 2015). The appeal date is April 27, 2018.
- ↑ L'avis de Silent_Jay. Test: Angry Birds 2, destruction emplumée et envolée mercantile (Fr.) . jeuxvideo.com (5 août 2015). The appeal date is April 27, 2018.
- ↑ Stuart Dredge. Angry Birds 2 review - new twists on a familiar friend (eng.) . The Guardian (6 August 2015). The appeal date is April 27, 2018.
- Ang ' Angry Birds 2' Review: Pay Or Die. Angry Birds 2 gamers mad at in-app purchases (eng.) . Forbes (31 July 2015). The appeal date is April 27, 2018.
- ↑ Andrey Popovtsev. Angry Birds 2 . Game Privacy (August 1, 2015). The appeal date is April 27, 2018.
- ↑ Alexey Shvek. Angry Birds 2: Review . StopGame.ru (August 15, 2015). The appeal date is April 27, 2018.
- ↑ Rodion Ilyin. More meaner, more mercenary. Review of Angry Birds 2 . Gambling (August 18, 2015). The appeal date is April 27, 2018.
- ↑ Dan Whitehead. Angry Birds 2 review (English) . Eurogamer (4 August 2015). The appeal date is April 27, 2018.
- ↑ Mike Fahey. Somewhere Underneath Angry Birds 2's Nonsense Is A Solid Game (English) . Kotaku (3 August 2015). The appeal date is April 27, 2018.
Links
- Ian Paul. Angry Birds 2 is the 'sequel' you've been waiting for . PCWorld (30 July 2015). The appeal date is April 27, 2018.
- Evgeni Vildev. Friday column №99. Angry Birds 2 . mobile-review.com (August 7, 2015). The appeal date is April 27, 2018.
- James Peckham. There's no excuse for Angry Birds 2's embarrassing cash-grab (English) . techradar.com (5 August 2015). The appeal date is April 27, 2018.
- Dave Thier. 'Angry Birds 2' Is the Worse Than The Original In Nearly Every Way (English) . Forbes (2 August 2015). The appeal date is April 27, 2018.
- Dmitry Gumenyuk. Angry Birds 2 Review: Returning Evil Birds to Your Smart Phones . Life hacker (July 31, 2015). The appeal date is April 27, 2018.