the classic angry bird!

If you haven’t downloaded Angry Birds for the iPhone or Android platform yet then I have just one question for you: what have you been doing for the last one and a half years?  This game has taken the world by storm, spawning copycats the world over and selling merchandise at every country fair in the country.  It’s truly a revolutionary game in the sense that it has breached the mobile application market and become a part of the current technology culture.  I hear that they’re even talking about doing an Angry Birds movie!
The game is so unbelievably fun and addicting I can barely believe it.  I haven’t encountered a game that is this simple yet simultaneously so addicting in quite a long time.  In fact, the last time I can remember being so engaged by a game was when the first puzzle style games started to come out in the early 90s!  Of course, games like World of Warcraft and League of Legends are in a different league as they’re made for the computer and can have many more layers of functionality, but for its market space Angry Birds is the best-performing game I have ever seen.
They say that good artists borrow and great artists steal.  Angry Birds has certainly stolen some gameplay mechanics from the games of old that I used to love, like the classic cannon wars or any kind of physics based game.  I simply can’t get enough of those geeky types of games and it’s more than awesome to have a game like Angry Birds come out and give me that feeling that I’m back on my old Macintosh playing some of the first computer games to ever be developed.  It really was something then and it’s something greater now.
The mechanics that Angry Birds has taken shouldn’t be considered outright theft.  Any good artist takes something he likes and then puts it in the context of his own experience and artwork.  In the case of Angry Birds, the company decided to mess around with the physics and add in some cool birds that made the entire game more enticing and fun.  Instead of just shooting every bird in an arc, now you had the ability to boomerang them or have them act as mini battering rams that blasted through anything in their sight.  It was a truly creative way to breathe new life into a type of game that has been played to death, since these types of games were some of the first to ever be created on computers.
If you’re looking for a modern throwback to a simpler era, then I would highly recommend Angry Birds.  There’s really not a better choice out there especially because Rovio is so dedicated to making this one of the best games that has ever existed for the iPhone and Android markets.  You can’t beat a company with dedication like that which is why I think you should just pony up the $0.99 and buy the game.