
Is it best to take him out, dropping his floating blocks onto any pigs below? Or is he actually using the force to keep these blocks away from your line of fire and should be taken out last? The stages are the most complex and satisfying Angry Birds puzzles Rovio has released yet. Play The aforementioned force-using Darth Vader piggy turns some stages into proper puzzles. Players will now need to time their shots to sneak in between the blaster fire, or better yet deflect it back towards the fragile pig structure with a well-timed lightsaber. These moments aren’t just references for fans – they represent significant new wrinkles to the Angry Birds formula. Several stages feature a pig Darth Vader using the Force to float blocks or a pig Tusken Raider firing a blaster. The levels themselves display this same skillful combination of clever and cute Star Wars references with more complex and satisfying stage design. The trickiest stages require gamers to fling Han in one direction to nab one Storm Trooper pig, while aiming his blaster backwards to nab another. Gamers will now need to aim their bird in just the right place and activate abilities correctly to succeed. This makes success feel more satisfying as a result. Defeating stages means carving out a perfect spot with Luke then sending in Obi-Wan behind to force-push a pile of blocks in just the right spot. Although these new skills aren’t major departures, they do make Angry Birds Star Wars’ roster of avian heroes much more action-oriented and fun to use.


But Han Solo (complete with scruffy hair on his pointy yellow head) is probably most useful of all – he fires three pinpoint blaster rounds anywhere players tap. The reimagined Obi-Wan Kenobi bomb bird Force Pushes piles of blocks in the direction players tap. Now when you fling a red Luke Skywalker, you can tap the screen a second time to activate a lightsaber that surgically slices through the first few obstacles in your path. No longer is the red bird a generic roster-filler. blog where fans can submit their own artwork from Angry Birds Star Wars.The Angry Bird heroes themselves have received fitting Star Wars makeovers, both in visual design (I’m especially fond of the giant furry Chewbacca bird) and in function. Rovio and LucasArts continue to get their fans involved with the game itself. If Angry Birds Star Wars is like any other Angry Birds mobile game, then it will be a big hit like its predecessors. Rovio has really lucked out with the timing of Angry Birds Star Wars, which was most likely engineered by the ad wizards at Disney and LucasArts. It looks like Rovio has done a good job incorporating lightsabers, the Force, settings and planets, and other elements from Star Wars into their Angry Birds mobile game. The mobile game itself features all your favorite Star Wars characters as Angry Birds, including Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, and Obi-Wan Kenobi. The animation in the cinematic trailer feels like a Saturday-morning cartoon more than anything else, which probably won’t appeal to older fans of the Star Wars saga. What a difference a week makes! The animated short film is the first time we’ve seen the Angry Birds (non-pixel) animated, and it also teases the potential for a full-length animated movie.

Just think, before the Disney/Lucasfilm acquisition, Angry Birds Star Wars was the biggest news for Star Wars fans.
