![]() It’s the most nuanced of all the special moves but Han’s blaster and Chewbacca’s role as Big Brother Bird are all far more flexible than they might first seem, especially as knocking a pig down can often end up with him shooting his own compadres. Unlikely as it may sound the lightsabre combat in Angry Birds is far more versatile than most serious Star Wars games. Get your timing even better and you can fly through the air, deflect a laser bolt right into the face of another pig, and still knock out the section of masonry you were aiming for in the first place. The lightsabre can be used simply to make a quick shortcut, but wield it at the right moment and it can deflect laser bolts fired by pigs. These aren’t the one note gimmick they first appear either. The pigs are dressed up as Tusken Raiders and Stormtroopers and the Jenga-like structures they’re sat in sometimes look like moisture vaporators and landspeeders, but the gameplay is identical to the very first games.Īngry Birds Star Wars (360) – you can’t repel a price hike of that magnitude You aim the catapult and fire it in exactly the same way as usual. You also get some bonus droid stages similar to the Golden Eggs levels from the original, and a smattering of secret Boba Fett missions.įor the first few stages the game seems to be nothing but a straight reskinning of the original Angry Birds, with the newly Star Wars-ified characters. Some simple cut scenes are interspersed throughout, while the stages are variously set on Tatooine, the Death Star, the ice planet Hoth, Dagobah, Cloud City, and the forest moon of Endor. ![]() The game retells the story of the original Star Wars, except with the Red Bird cast as Luke Skywalker, King Pig as Darth Vader, Yellow Bird as Han Solo and so on down the list of both franchise’s casts. Unlikely as it seems opposites have attracted and Angry Birds in particular is all the better for it. It’s a cynical marketing opportunity (literally, there’s plenty of merchandise already available) dreamed up by accountants, not creatives.Īnd yet despite this we have to admit that our initial assumptions about the game were completely wrong. We've also reached out to Microsoft for comment but its pricing seems to be pretty hard evidence that the House of Representatives Inquiry into IT Pricing did very little to deter companies from slapping a hefty consumer cost increase on digital goods.This isn’t a crossover inspired by decades of what if? style ponderings or because the creators realised how much common ground the two universes share. It certainly is a striking example of both publisher overpricing and the Australia tax combined - it's a price increase of 53 per cent for the Xbox 360 version and 22 per cent for the Xbox One version. We don't really feel that these speculated reasons adequately explain a price increase of 4000 per cent, but it gets worse: on Xbox 360 and Xbox One in Australia, the game comes in at a whopping AU$69.95 for both versions - compared to US$39.99 and US$49.99 respectively in the US. We've reached out to Activision for comment and will update if we receive a reply. It's also worth noting that Rovio built extra levels just for the console versions, although we can't imagine they add $39 worth of value.Īnd, of course, Activision would require a distributor's fee. We're unwilling to buy the game (for obvious reasons) to find out whether it has microtransactions, like the mobile version of the game, but if it doesn't, perhaps Activision feels that it needs to "recoup" any funds not received through in-game purchases. Now, we're just speculating here, but there could be a few reasons for the (much) higher cost. (Screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET Australia)
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