![]() In others you’ll attack pigs that are floating in space, hoping to send them crashing into the orbit of the planet below. In some stages you’ll have to navigate through the gravity wells of multiple asteroids to reach your target. The stages themselves use this mix in varying ways, meaning the levels here have a bit more variety to them than what we’ve previously seen in an Angry Birds game. But what if you get close to a planetoid and get caught up in its gravity? It’s this manipulation of gravity vs zero gravity that gives Angry Birds Space its unique appeal. With no gravity in the void, any bird you shoot will continue in a straight line unless it crashes into another object, causing it to veer. But take those very same birds into space and things get a tad more complicated. Birds go up, birds come down – its science at its most simple. ![]() So what sets this latest entry apart from its predecessors? Space physics.Įarlier Angry Birdsgames all took place on earth, and as such, treated gamers to a style of gravity that we’re all used to. ![]() ![]() It’s a delicate balance, but it’s one that Angry Birds Space has pulled off with flying colors. It’s like Earth-2, but without the role reversal.Īs the first true sequel in the Angry Birds franchise (other games in the series like Seasons and Rio are really more spin-offs), there was a lot of pressure for Rovio to try and evolve the gameplay in some truly unique way, giving gamers a completely fresh experience while simultaneously holding on to what people love about the series in the first place. The pigs are back at it again, although this time they seem to be stealing egg-shaped meteorites rather than eggs, and the birds themselves might not be exactly the same flock we know, but an extraterrestrial equivalent. And Angry Birds Space? It plays like a brilliant melding of the two.Īs you can probably gather from the title, Angry Birds Space takes everyone’s favorite avian assassins and puts them in, well… space. Another little gem that we never seemed to get enough of was Hemisphere Games’ Osmos. But it’s certainly not the only game we enjoy around here. While it probably won’t come as a big surprise to regular readers of the site, we here at Gamezebo have been big fans of Angry Birds since it late 2009 debut. Also, there is a cloud system that syncs your local savegame with Steam’s server, so be careful when the game asks you which one one has to keep.Angry Birds Space flips the switch on the series tried and true gravity-based gameplay They are the same files as usual, but they are not in your local folder such as C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Roaming\Rovio\Angry Birds Space, but instead are (at least for me) at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\somefigureshere\someotherfigures\remote. If you already have the standard v2.0.0 PC version, you must pay again to get this one (since it is not purchased from Rovio but from Steam), and it costs around 5 EUR for Europe.Īnother difference is how and where the score files are kept. Unsurprisingly, those leaderboards have their lot of cheaters (see this Mithrandir guy below), but unexpectedly, they work the same way as the ABO Game Center leaderboard works, i.e., for each level the best score between non PU and PU scores are kept, which give better scores, but which is somehow inconsistent since no PU can be used on this nor any PC versions: ![]() The only diffrence I could see wrt the standard, now discontinued PC game is the existence of a Leaderboard, obviously conected to Steam users: Together with the mission system to unlock them: The then brand new Brass Hogs levels are available: It features all the then existing episodes (only Solar System, which was released 5 months and a half later is not there): The game does not seem to be significantly different from the previous PC versions. 2015 somehow became available from the Steam platform at some epoch, and, at the moment of writing, still is: 2014, however, I just discovered one exception to this disappointing fact: Angry Birds Space v2.1.0, which was the most massive AB game update ever (30 classical levels 260 Mirror World levels) and was officially released on Jan. Many PC players cried when Rovio announced that no new game nor existing game releases would be available on PC from Nov. ![]()
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