Angry Birds in Space (
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Angry Birds fans were crowing yesterday over the release of the latest edition of the cellphone puzzle app.
“Dude, I freakin’ love this game! It’s awesome!” fan Kristin Regner wrote of Angry Birds Space on the game’s Facebook page.
In the new app, the action is set in orbit near moons and planets that have varying degrees of gravity to affect the birds’ flight path. To perfect the physics behind the microgravity effects, programmers turned to NASA scientists for help.
Just hours after its release, the game had racked up 2,700 reviews on Apple’s App Store, where the iPhone version sells for 99 cents and the HD iPad version goes for $2.99.
“One word: amazing,” wrote a user, adding his opinion to the rapidly growing list of raves.
“It’s a good game,” said Peter Brown, the game-guide editor for Game Spot, CBS Interactive’s video-game Webzine. “It would be fair to say if you’re a fan of the [Angry Birds] series, you’re gonna like it.”
As in the original — of which more than 700 million copies have been sold since 2010 — players try to control the trajectory of a family of angry birds bent on killing evil pigs who have stolen their eggs.
Using a slingshot, players launch birds at pigs stationed on or within various structures, hoping to collapse the structures and crush all the pigs on the playing field.