Angry Birds Rio

Angry Birds Rio
Angry Birds & Rio team up in a brand new slingshot adventure!
Genre(s): Puzzle Platform(s): iOS Android Release Date: March 22, 2011 Developer(s): Rovio Publisher(s): Rovio Blue Sky Studios Series: Angry Birds Predecessor: Angry Birds Seasons Successor: Angry Birds Friends

Angry Birds Rio is a slingshot puzzle game based on the original Angry Birds. The game was released on March 22, 2011. It is a crossover between the game Angry Birds Classic, and a movie named Rio.

Why It Does The Samba!

1. Like Angry Birds Star Wars, although out of nowhere, the idea of having a crossover Angry Birds game with Rio is a brilliant & smart idea, and it's well executed too!
2. Like the first 2 Angry Birds games, the graphics are nicely done, even for 2011 standards.
3. The character models are well made, even for the Rio characters like Blu & Jewel.
4. Awesome soundtrack, with the best being the Rio 1 theme.
5. It is the very first Angry Birds game to introduce boss fights, which is a cool addition to the Angry Birds franchise.
6. It is very faithful to the movie, such as Blu and Jewel being chained together, Luiz the bulldog cutting it which follows with Nigel kidnapping Jewel, the gang going to carnival to save her only for Blu to get captured himself and Nigel getting sliced by the plane propellers.
7. Like the Rio film, Nigel is a really amazing antagonist in the game.
8. The idea about replacing the pigs with the monkeys & birds is a very clever idea, even for the Rio film.
9. The Level Failed screens are different too, with the pigs laughing being replaced by the monkeys laughing & birds crying in their cages, which is nice.
10. The Rio 2 update is even better, as they have more levels, more chapters, power-ups, & even a tutorial chapter called Playground.
11. The game has the same exact charm as the Rio film, and it also shares the charm with Angry Birds at the same time as well.

Bad Qualities That Fall

1. Like the other slingshot games, some levels are impossible or hard to beat, making the game unfair.
2. Apart from Blu and Jewel, you can't play as the other characters from Rio.
   • To make matters worse, Blu and Jewel don't appear in many levels.
3. The latest update of the game isn't that great, because it locks the other episodes and it makes it hard to get any power-ups, & coins due to the servers closing, meaning you will have to beat the levels without anything to help unless you're lucky, which contributes to the game's unfairness.
4. Unfortunately, the game is no longer available as of 2019, in which like the other pre-film games, you can only get it from your purchases if you got it before 2019, and like Star Wars, there isn't any chance of it coming back, since Rovio has licensing issues with Disney, since they own Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox and combined with Blue Sky Studios' shutdown doesn't help matters either. However, since Rio 3 and a Nico and Pedro spin-off are in the works for Disney+ (or possibly Netflix due to Nimona success and allowing to the Rio 3 on Netflix but with different studio), there is a possibility of Rovio and Disney (or Netflix via Netflix Games due to licensing reason) making a new deal to revive Angry Birds Rio to coincide with the new Rio sequels.

Reception

Like the Classic game & Seasons, the game received positive reception from fans & reviewers of Angry Birds alike.

Trivia

• The game made a cameo in Angry Birds Friends during the 2015 Rio Tournament, where it had the pigs being replaced by monkeys, & the game taking place in Rio 2.
• This is the first Angry Birds game to be based on a licensed product with the second one being Angry Birds Star Wars and the third one being Angry Birds Transformers.

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