I am a bit of a secret Angry Birds addict. I’ve had the original on my windows phone for some time so when the console version arrived I was eager to feed my secret addiction and I wasn’t dissapointed.
Angry Birds trilogy is everything you would expect, because now it’s on the big screen, and looking bigger and brighter.
It has been labelled as ‘plays better with Kinect’ but unfortunately that isn’t the case.
It’s just a frustrating nightmare using this option, yet the game does redeem itself with the use of
the controller and is probably the best way of all of the previous versions.
Ovio Entertainment and Housemarque have transferred the first three Angry Birds games to console
in this release by Activision and it works beautifully (providing you don`t use Kinect)
You get Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio which amounts to 700 different levels so there’s plenty to keep you going
The graphics are bright and colourful as you now get them on the big screen and it brings a nice
freshness to the world dominating franchise.
If you’ve been playing this on your handheld for a while you won`t find anything new.
In this version, it’s simply a console version of the original.
Gameplay is what you would expect from an Angry Birds game.
For those of you unfamiliar with the franchise, it’s a simple side scrolling game where you fire a variety of different types of birds with a catapult and try and destroy the green pigs (or monkeys) who are surrounded by various pieces of scenery.
The collision dynamics make for satisfying collapsing sequences, with plenty of
challenging and addictive game play.
The problem with Angry Birds is who it’s actually aimed at,
If you’ve already played it to death on your mobile device, you’re not going to splash out more cash for a game that you already have.
Because of of the lack of new content, new players aren’t going to go for a console game
that they can download from an app store for 69p.
Summary
Angry Birds trilogy is of course a great game yet bringing it to consoles without any new content
is a bit of a shame.
There’s plenty of potential to create something fresh and interesting, instead of just creating the exact same game for a console that is on a mobile device.
As a Kinect interactive game this is a serious failure, yet play it with your controller and it is as addictive as ever.
Angry Birds Trilogy
Developers: Rovio/Housemarque
Publishers: Activision
Xbox 360
Playstation 3
Nintendo 3DS
Genre: Puzzle
Release Date: September 28 2012
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