Like virtually every other human being with a smartphone, I love playing Angry Birds. So of course there wasn’t any doubt that I would get Angry Birds Rio this morning when it came out. I’ve only just started playing it, but, while a departure from the original and the Holiday games, it’s still basically the same idea with a different conceit.
See, the movie Rio, for which the game is meant to whet your appetite, involves birds getting kidnapped. So in Angry Birds Rio, instead of trying to kill green pigs for stealing the birds’ eggs, the angry birds are trying to rescue caged birds (who can fly without a slingshot, incidentally) by breaking open the cages in pretty much exactly the same way they kill pigs. There are some new things (boxes, for example) that serve as parts of the levels, but at its core it’s still the same Angry Birds you know and love. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right?
The movie Rio doesn’t come out until April 15, but in the U.S. the game is available today on iTunes for iOS devices and in the Amazon Appstore
Angry Birds Rio launches today with 60 dedicated levels, with more to be added later (as usual for Angry Birds) via free app updates.
