

It’s based around consistent physics systems, but doesn’t feel entirely precise – it’s simplified, just as you’d expect from an Angry Birds game, or any casual game.

And occasionally there’s even such a conflict that a new centre of gravity between planetary bodies forms.īefore it all starts to sound a bit like Carl Sagan presents Angry Birds Space, we should say that the approach to gravity here is still very casual. Soon enough you’re dealing with levels where gravity fields intersect, requiring more thought. This would become dull fairly quickly, but as design experts, Rovio’s designers know when to tweak the formula – as a drip feed of new thrills. Rovio eases you into the difference between the vacuum of space and the pulling fields, and the notion of playing around a planet rather than along a plane is slowly introduced.

Each sphere’s area of influence is shown visually, and – as in real-life physics – the centre of gravity is at the planet’s core.įor the first dozen or so levels, the approach to gravity fields is easygoing. Levels aren’t just made up of side-scrolling arrangements of small obstacles, but planetoids with their own gravity fields too. This natural Newtonian force is at the core of any physics-based game – the original Angry Birds included – but this one gets to be more playful with it than most. The key difference is in Angry Birds Space’s approach to gravity. And you still fling one at the other using touchscreen gestures you’ll have seen, if not done yourself. A similar line-up of birds features, and those pigs are still there, under those blocks of wood, stone and metal. However, Angry Birds Space remains a mix of the familiar and the new. They refined it, sure, but neither made as dramatic changes as Angry Birds Space. However, later instalments Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio didn’t change the gameplay formula much. That’s a fair old time in gaming terms, and a lifetime on the App Store.
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