![]() ![]() A thought ful, precise solution is often needed, and frustrations will arise, frequently. Unlike Angry Birds, thoughtless experimentation won’t get you very far in Bad Piggies. There is quite literally a finish line in each level too, a chequered flag you have to hit, as well as map parts that are essential if you want to earn the now-traditional 3-star rating. Multiple ways to finish levels start to appear as Bad Piggies throws a greater array of gadgets your way, often dropping in the odd red herring component that’s more likely to trip you up than send your pig sailing past the finish line. However, once you’ve spent a little while tip-toeing through Rovio’s game design baby steps, the app-based game soon opens-up. Bad Piggies begins as an exercise in making little cars out of a few boxes and wheels, and more experienced players may begin to wonder if Rovio has squandered the potential of such a neat conceit. You have a grid of squares into which you can place a small selection of components, plus the pig you need to ferry about. In most levels, you’re fairly constrained in what you can create. It’s a game of some creativity, but like Angry Birds it starts out slowly. Older gamers may be reminded of The Incredible Machine, and its comparable fiddling about with wotsits, widgets and doodads. The most important thing it shares with the Angry Birds franchise, including the spin-off likes of Angry Birds Space, is its basis on physics, and Bad Piggies is a game of judging how gravity will deal with your creation. You do this by creating a pig-housing contraption out of boxes, balloons, wheels, engines, fans and other such bits and bobs. Rather than asking you to kill pigs, you have to transport them safely(ish) from point A to point B in each level. If Angry Birds is all about destruction, Bad Piggies is a game of creation. It switches you over to the side of the pigs, and while you may be playing as the baddies, it’s a much more thoughtful game than its grandfather. ![]() ![]() Almost three years on, Rovio has kicked off a new franchise in the Angry Birds universe with Bad Piggies. Angry Birds has become the most-downloaded mobile phone game of all time, netting more than billion downloads worldwide. ![]()
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