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2015 puzzle video game

2015 video game

Angry Birds 2
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Developer(s)	Rovio Entertainment
Publisher(s)	Rovio Entertainment
Serial	Angry Birds
Engine	Unity
Platform(southward)	iOS, Android, Windows 10
Release	July 30, 2015 (Android, iOS) August 15, 2019 (Windows x) June six, 2021 (Amazon App Store)
Genre(s)	Puzzle

Angry Birds 2 is a 2015 puzzle video game developed past Rovio Entertainment and is the twelfth game in the Angry Birds series, and is the direct sequel to the original Angry Birds. It is a free-to-play with optional purchases for in-game currency. The gameplay features a new bird named Silver, a new ability for Cerise, spells instead of power-ups and gameplay that occurs in multi-phase levels. It was soft-launched in Canada on March v, 2015, as Angry Birds Under Pigstruction,^[one] released for iOS and Android worldwide on July 30, 2015, and the name was changed to Angry Birds 2.^[2]

Reception for Angry Birds ii was mixed. While praise was given for the game's enhanced graphics and gameplay, criticism was given to the implemented energy organisation that detracts playability compared to previous games.^[3] ^[four]

Gameplay [edit]

Similar the original Angry Birds, players use a slingshot to launch birds at nearby structures; a key divergence in Angry Birds 2 is the ability to select birds of the desired option from a deck. This tin can give the player more freedom by allowing the creation of their own unique strategies. The main enemies of the game are green-colored pigs of varying sizes, who can be defeated using birds, spells, objects or terrain damage. A new characteristic is that some specialized pigs can defend themselves from birds in diverse ways, such every bit knocking them back with projectiles, attracting the birds via a tractor axle, motility away from the danger, or even transforming the birds into random objects. These retaliatory tactics, though sometimes effective, can end upwards backfiring at times.

Private birds and spells are represented on cards. Tapping on a card will select it, placing its contents on the slingshot for launching. Players get points past destroying objects and pigs; the points will and so be multiplied past the selected bird'south score multiplier (referred to in-game as Bird Power). The total score multiplier is made up of 4 factors: bird level, highest hat level, slingshot level & hatchling level. Birds can be leveled up by gaining their corresponding feathers (with each level requiring more than feathers than the previous one). Hats, which are bought using black pearls (found in a multitude of means), volition requite a score boost to a bird based on the all-time hat which the histrion has for that bird. The slingshot can be leveled upwardly by completing hat sets, providing a score boost to all the players' birds. Finally, players tin can feed a Hatchling by borer an egg well-nigh their slingshot and hatch it. The hatchling provides a sure muitipiler bonus, depending of the hatchling level, to all of the birds, but must exist fed with apples (found in many game parts) at least once every 24 to 48 hours to stop it from leaving. Once fed enough times, the thespian tin besides level it up, increasing the multiplier bonus and the apples requirements.

Levels include multiple waves of pigs, which progress through divide structures, each i completely independent of one another. Only three cards can exist displayed at a fourth dimension; the balance announced in the deck. The "Destruct-o-meter" fills up during play every bit the player destroys buildings, and if information technology is completely filled, a random card will be given to the role player, either a bird or a spell. The player begins with five lives and loses one if all cards have been used with at least i pig remains undefeated and the player neither pays gems to become 3 birds nor watches a video to get 1; once all five lives have been lost, the player must pay gems, watch an advertising to become 1 life or wait 30 minutes in order to get 1 life.^[5] Nevertheless, lives are not used nor required in the Loonshit, the Bootcamp or in clan events, which can exist played even if the player is out of lives.

Levels will sometimes comprise items, either an apple tree, a friend gift (which can be given to friends when connected to Facebook, now removed due to a modify in Facebook's policies) or a rare chest. They can be acquired if an object passes through the item, in which the player can only collect information technology if they successfully consummate the level. Occasionally, a golden pig may appear in identify of some other pig in some rooms and will completely fill the "Destruct-o-meter" when they are destroyed. They are required to go to the next phase though simply are helpful to get 1 actress menu irrespective of devastation caused. However, if one has a nearly full Destruct-o-meter, popping a golden pig straightaway will only fill the bar to total. The game may exist connected to Facebook to fill-in scores & progress and give friend gifts to friends (this feature has since been removed) or Sign In with Apple on iOS devices.^[6] Gems, lives, avatars, and many miscellaneous items can be earned from in-app purchases; gems can also be nerveless by completing daily quests.

Game Modes [edit]

There are several game modes in Angry Birds two other than the regular entrada levels, including the Daily Challenge and King Pig Panic, Tower of Fortune, the Loonshit, Mighty Hawkeye's Bootcamp & Clans and other express-time events.

Daily Challenge [edit]

The Daily Challenge is a set up of 3 levels (1 normal, 1 hard & ane dominate) which must be completed all in a row to go the prize. If the player fails any of the 3 levels, the role player loses a life and must offset over from the showtime level. Once completed, the actor tin can endeavour to shell the King Hog Panic, which features bigger prizes but requires completion of 3 boss levels in a row.

Tower of Fortune [edit]

The Tower of Fortune is an elevator with 60 floors, and functions similarly to the international game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. On each flooring, players tin option one of four cards. 3 of them will contain loot (either feathers, spells, gems, or apples), which will be added to the histrion's winnings. The other carte contains a pig, who will steal all the items the player has previously gathered unless the pig is paid with gems, or (assuming that'south the outset fourth dimension a pig was encountered) the role player can watch a video to continue. The player can quit at any fourth dimension, and the player can collect their winnings and get out the tower. Every 5th floor is a Jackpot floor and every 30th floor is a Super-Jackpot floor, where all iv cards contain hats and no pigs (the rarity of which are predetermined, in floor 60, one in 4 cards contains a Jackpot Egg. The items get progressively better the above the player ascends, but so does the take chances of encountering a grunter.

Arena [edit]

The Arena is unlocked after reaching level v. The concept of the Arena is similar to Angry Birds Friends. Players around the world were randomly divided into a batch of 15 and feathers were awarded to a detail bird co-ordinate to the high score of each role player in an endless level of the same arena event which changed every day. Later the Mountain Everest update, with the same division of players, the Arena became a 7-day-long tournament where the rewards were gems and blackness pearls instead of feathers. The endless levels of arena events are now randomly given and non fixed for a particular day and multiple events can be played in a twenty-four hours. Instead of a player playing alone for a high score, now the player competes with a randomly chosen opponent, and ane with a better score is awarded stars co-ordinate to the margin of victory. Stars determines the position of the players. The top three in the same league are promoted to a college league and the bottom three are demoted to a lower league. Players likewise become medals if they finish in the top three in Arena.

Update 2.48 (released in December 2020) gave a massive overhaul to the arena and its functionality. Each day, there will exist a random set of 5 birds which will be the merely ones usable in the Arena. Additionally, the win streaks are shorter and their prizes can just be claimed once per day. Each role player volition take an arena "ranking" which can go upwards and downwards depending if the player wins or loses. Although stars are still awarded, the weekly leaderboard is based on the actor's total ranking gain. In one case the actor's ranking reaches certain thresholds, they will advance to a higher league, featuring tougher opponents, improved win streak prizes and a bigger end-of-season reward.

This is the only traditional slingshot Angry Birds game with procedurally generated levels,^[7] which might be the reason the game has 2700 levels in its campaign mode as of July 2020.^[seven]

Plot [edit]

After the events of Aroused Birds, Chef Hog takes the eggs and puts them in an balloon, leaving Red to gather the rest of the flock pursuing him and the balance of the pigs. Subsequently Chef Pig is defeated, Foreman Pig takes over the ship in order to forestall the birds from recovering the eggs. Once Foreman Pig is defeated, Male monarch Pig commands the airship. This cycle repeats for the entirety of the campaign levels.

In other media [edit]

Argent, a bird who offset appeared in the game, went on to appear in the animated film The Angry Birds Movie 2, voiced past Rachel Bloom. In that movie, she is Chuck's sister, a skilled engineer and a potential dearest interest for Scarlet.^[8]

Promotions [edit]

Rovio uses new spells for promotional use which are like to the 'Golden Duck' spell. These spells tin be used until the completion of but 1 level and no other spell can be used on that particular level. These spells are bachelor for a limited time and alter with ongoing events.

The ongoing festivities are also promoted by especially designed levels which gives a premium treasure box in return if the players win it. Just one attempt is given for this level. This started on February 14, 2016 which promoted Valentine's Twenty-four hour period through a specially designed level. These levels were merely available for a express time.

The Gravity Grove update promoted The Angry Birds Movie past using the character appearances from the movie in the levels.

Reception [edit]

The game has received mixed reviews. Pocket Gamer gave the game a 7/x, feeling that the gameplay was a step forrad in puzzle design and the graphics were gorgeous; however, it did non similar the energy organisation that, after failing to complete a few levels, either makes the player terminate playing or use gems to continue playing; overall the website thought the game was Rovio at its best.^[3] IGN awarded it a score of 6.7 out of 10, saying "Ever-shifting levels and limited lives take a lot of the fun out of neat pigs with birds in Angry Birds ii."^[4]

Three days afterwards its release, Angry Birds ii was downloaded over 10 meg times; information technology is a free game on all platforms.^[12] One calendar week after its release, Angry Birds 2 was downloaded over twenty million times.^[xiii] On Baronial vi, 2015, the game was the number 1 downloaded iOS game in 100 countries and the most downloaded game on Android.^[14]

References [edit]

^ "New Aroused Birds Game Soft Launches in Canada". 5 March 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
^ Ashcraft, Brian (July 16, 2015). "Angry Birds ii Volition Exist Released This Calendar month". Kotaku. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Angry Birds 2 review". Retrieved 31 July 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Angry Birds 2 score". IGN. v August 2015. Retrieved 10 Baronial 2015.
^ "Angry Birds Under Pigstruction has multi-phase levels, a competitive Arena, and dominate fights". Pocket Gamer . Retrieved x March 2015. {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ Player Support Team. "How do I save my progress?". Rovio Support. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ ^a ^b O'Brien, Ciara. "Aroused Birds 2 | Game Review". The Irish gaelic Times . Retrieved 2020-06-27 .
^ O'Connell, Sean (31 July 2019). "Exclusive Angry Birds 2 Clip Introduces Audiences To Silvery". CinemaBlend . Retrieved 24 August 2019.
^ "Angry Birds 2 for iPhone/iPad Reviews". Metacritic. Cherry Ventures. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
^ "Angry Birds ii review PocketGamer".
^ Hodapp, Eli (31 July 2015). "'Angry Birds 2' Review – The Best, and About Free to Play 'Angry Birds' Even so". TouchArcade . Retrieved 8 August 2018.
^ "Angry Birds 2 tops 10 million". USA Today. iii August 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
^ "Angry Birds ii downloaded more than 20 1000000 times". 6 August 2015. Retrieved seven August 2015.
^ "Angry Birds passes 20 million downloads in one week". half dozen August 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2015.

External links [edit]

Official website