Thursday, September 27, 2012

Rovio extends Angry Birds franchise with Bad Piggies

Rovio is about to give its Angry Birds a taste of their own medicine.

The game make is expanding its Angry Birds franchise with a new game called Bad Piggies. In this installment, instead of playing from the perspective of the birds, you take on the role of their pig archenemies, as you try and steal a treasure trove of eggs from those furious fowl. The new game is available Thursday for iOS, Android, and Mac; Rovio promises editions are on their way for Windows desktops, Windows Phone, and the upcoming Windows 8 operating system.

In Bad Piggies, you try to reassemble a map that will lead the pigs to the birds? stash of eggs. That means you have to pass a finish line in each level, but instead of using a slingshot to sail and smash into each map piece as in prior Angry Birds offerings, you build a piggie-styled contraption that propels you through each level. Those contraptions can be made out of umbrellas, wings, boxes, bottle rockets, balloons, and bellows, and they?ll send your pig soaring. As you progress through the game, you unlock more powerful pieces to add to your vehicles.

Similar to the Mighty Eagle in earlier Angry Birds games, a roadside mechanic can get you on the right path in Bad Piggies.

If you get stuck on a level, Rovio will let you turn to a mechanic for help to create the appropriate contraption for your current level. Similar to using the all powerful Mighty Eagle in Angry Birds, hiring a mechanic in Bad Piggies will cost you. If you ?Like? Bad Piggies on Facebook, Rovio will start you off with three complimentary roadside assistance sessions. After that you have to pay $2 for 10 mechanic sessions, $6 for 35, or for people who really need help, $10 for 65.

In the early levels of the game, you aren?t given much freedom to build a contraption; instead, you need to build a certain configuration if you want to earn a three-star score. That?s a similar approach to earlier Angry Birds games, where aiming your birds at specific places will help you achieve three stars. Still, it doesn?t stop you from coming up with your own solution for getting through a level, even if there?s usually a standard way to best a bird.

You can build your own contraption in the sandbox levels of Bad Piggies.

For the budding engineers out there, Rovio offers a number of sandbox levels that give you more freedom to build the craziest contraption you can think of. Rovio has also added a bonus for three-star achievers: If you can get three stars on all of the game?s current levels, you unlock an extra 30 levels.

Bad Piggies looks like an interesting addition to the Angry Birds universe, and it?s definitely not the same old, smash ?em up slingshot premise from previous games.

Bad Piggies is available now in the iOS App Store as a $1 iPhone game or a $3 iPad version. Android users can pick up free versions of Bad Piggies and Bad Piggies HD in Google Play. There?s a $5 version in the Mac App Store as well.

Source: http://www.techhive.com/article/2010660/rovio-extends-angry-birds-franchise-with-bad-piggies.html

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