Angry Birds

Angry Birds
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Genre(s): Puzzle Creator(s): Jaakko Iisalo Developer(s): Rovio Entertainment Publisher(s): Rovio Entertainment Made in: Finland First game: Angry Birds First release: December 11, 2009 Latest game: Angry Birds Journey Latest release: January 20, 2022

Angry Birds is a Finnish action-based media franchise created by Rovio Entertainment. The game series focuses on the eponymous flock of angry birds who try to save their eggs from green-colored pigs. Inspired by the game Crush the Castle, the game has been praised for its successful combination of fun gameplay, comical style, and low price. Its popularity led to many spin-offs; versions of Angry Birds created for PCs and video game consoles, a market for merchandise featuring its characters, Angry Birds Toons, a televised animated series, and two films; The Angry Birds Movie and its sequel The Angry Birds Movie 2. By January 2014, there had been over 2 billion downloads across all platforms, including both regular and special editions.

By July 2015, the series' games had been downloaded more than 3 billion times collectively, making it the most downloaded freemium game series of all time. The original Angry Birds has been called "One of the most mainstream games out right now", "One of the great runaway hits of 2010", and "The largest mobile app success the world has seen so far". The first main-series video game sequel, Angry Birds 2, was released on 30 July 2015.

The first game in the series was initially released on 11 December 2009 for iOS. At the time, the 2009 swine flu epidemic was in the news, so the staff decided to use pigs as the enemies of the Angry Birds. The company released ports of the game to other touchscreen smartphone operating systems, including Android. In early 2019, all remaining Angry Birds games released before October 2014 (with the exception of Friends) were discontinued and removed from app stores, though Bad Piggies was added back in early 2020. Rovio has declined to explain their reasoning behind the decision apart from a brief tweet and support response, both giving different answers. However, in June 2021, by popular demand of the fans, Rovio announced that the classic games will be available on the stores again sometime in the future. A recreated version of the original Angry Birds game known as Rovio Classics: Angry Birds came to mobile platforms on 31 March 2022.

Why It's Anything BUT Angry

1. The characters are very likable in the games and TV shows, most notably The Flock and even the Bad Piggies.
2. The graphics are really great. In fact, most of the slingshot games have amazing graphics that are for Angry Birds standards.
3. Every Angry Birds game is awesome in their own way, to the point of even having pages on this wiki.
   • The Classic game was the game that started this franchise, as it became one of the popular mobile games, to the point of spawning other games, and even lots of TV shows.
   • Seasons is a very memorable game in the franchise, with amazing soundtrack, great chapters, and the Pig Days levels.
   • Rio had a crossover with the film of the same name, and the idea about Angry Birds and Rio having a crossover is a well executed idea.
   • Space is about the birds going to space. Not to mention, if you don't count Rio, it was the game that spawned boss fights, which is a cool addition to the franchise.
   • Star Wars and Star Wars II are really great and manages to capture the charm of the Star Wars movies, and the idea about Angry Birds having a crossover with Star Wars is awesome.
   • Go! is an awesome racing game where you can play as some characters in the franchise, to the point of having a multiplayer, and a tournament mode. Not to mention, the playable pigs concept returns from Star Wars II.
   • Epic is a really nice role playing game where the Angry Birds rescue their eggs from WizPig (who is Chef Pig in Angry Birds Toons). It also had a PvP Arena mode and awesome events, unfortunately, they were removed however.
   • Stella is a great spinoff game to the franchise about Stella and her friends retrieving the title character's photo album from Gale. And Stella's friends are also playable in their own way.
4. Angry Birds Toons was a great TV show as it managed to capture the charm of the games, and introduced a memorable redesigned art style that even later games such as Go!, Epic, and Fight managed to mimic it, with the voice actors of that show reprising their roles.
5. The soundtrack in the franchise is amazing, like the main theme in the Classic game, Races High from Angry Birds Go!, & the Summer Pignic theme from Angry Birds Seasons.
6. The merchandise is really cool, like the Angry Birds Classic plushies by Commonwealth Toys.
7. Because of Stella's popularity, she received her own spinoff game along with all of Stella's friends because of how popular she is, and this proves Rovio actually listened to their fans about making spinoff games.
8. Bad Piggies is also a awesome spinoff game to the series focused on Ross and Mechanic Pig getting maps for King Pig. And like the other Angry Birds games, the graphics are well designed for 2012 standards, and Rovio seems to actually listen to their fans about making Angry Birds spinoffs.
9. The gameplay in the games are really enjoyable and fun that it will make you addicted & you would play the games for hours & hours.
10. Rovio also remastered levels from Angry Birds Classic and Angry Birds Seasons by making a game called Angry Birds Reloaded, and not to mention the game is about the classic game and the Angry Birds Movie 2. Which the idea about remastering Angry Birds Classic and making it focused on the Angry Birds Movie 2 is a really good idea.
11. Angry Birds Transformers is a decent game about shoot-'em-up gameplay, and the game is never-ending, which is very cool, like Angry Birds 2. And it had a crossover with Transformers, an amazing toy line made by Hasbro, which spawned several TV show adaptations (excluding Japanese-exclusives, the Unicron Trilogy, Robots in Disguise 2015 and BotBots), tie-in video games, tie-in comic books (excluding the infamous The Beast Within comic and the Kiss Players manga) and it's live action movie.
12. Transformers has successfully survived from being removed from the App Store and Google Play, and despite its expired license, it was still updated today, and looks the same as it was released in 2014, despite being heavily milked.
13. The website is very good too with information on the characters, games and more. Check it out for yourself here!

Angry Qualities

1. Sometimes, some of the levels in the games are unfair, making some of the games almost as unfair sometimes.
2. The series took a nosedive in quality around 2017 to 2020, as all of the older games were removed, false advertising was used more often, and the modern games were really inferior.
3. Some games have microtransactions, like Angry Birds 2, where you have to pay money to buy the gem letter in order to complete the challenges, and the pre-2.0 era of Go!, where you need $50 to buy the car you want. Luckily, the latter could be avoided by buying the Telepods.
4. As said in WIABA #12, Angry Birds Transformers is being heavily milked by the developers since it 2.0 update.

Trivia

• Since 2021, the franchise has started to redeem itself and yet, come back to its former glory, as there was an advertisement for Bad Piggies 2 on TikTok in which Bad Piggies hasn't gotten a sequel yet, and Rovio made a plan to bring back someone of the older Angry Birds games (Classic, and Seasons were the only confirmed ones to come back while the others are unknown) and rereleasing them on newer engines of mobile devices. This could possibly mean Angry Birds is getting a Renaissance Era.

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