Review: Angry Birds

I'm going to be openly honest.The reason for lack of activity here for the past while is partly due to social obligations, but mostly...

..due...

...to this:

Grrr!

Angry Birds is one of the most addictive and fiendishly simple games ever.
It is frustrating and rewarding in equal measures and is guaranteed to feast monstrously on your time and energy.


The premise behind the game is as absurd as the concept of birds being angry and requiring a slingshot to fly.
In the game, you try to judge the correct angle to sling birds into structures housing green pigs who have stolen eggs. The idea is to crush or knock the piggies out of existence and eventually lead the troop of birds to their precious eggs. However, those devious pigs have an assortment of ever difficult buildings and underhanded tricks to keep the angry birds at bay.

Each round can be completed in usually under a minute, but some will require tens of attempts to work out the optimal strike points to best collapse structures. This is the essence of the addictive nature of the game... always getting that bit closer with each attempt, and each attempt lasting about half a minute.

The graphics are friendly and cartoony, and the audio is quite funny between the comedic squawks and giggle-inducing grunts, which, even in the direst of frustration keeps the player quite amused.

But bottom line: is Angry Birds any use?

As a deterrent to anything else and a frustrating tool of procrastination, most certainly.
If you're looking to be in any way actually productive with your life, definitely not!

Angry Birds is available for PC, i-phone and other devices at game developers Rovio, here for a very affordable few dollars.