![]() Yes yes the prequels are a bit rubbish but honestly, if you're going to argue Jar Jar Binks is a stupid character, but a growling blow-dried yeti with a Yorkshire terrier's face isn't, I can't help you. If you have no experience of either intellectual property, here's my advice: watch the Star Wars films. What next? Yoda-branded sanitary towels? 'Now with x-wings', etc. You pull the catapult back and it fires the bird at the thing and if you do it right it all collapses but then you have to do it again and again till you get the three stars because you're on the autistic spectrum and afterwards you feel hollow inside. The birds have little Luke Skywalker wigs on and the pigs look like stormtroopers. If you have experience of either of the intellectual properties involved you do not need me to explain what's going on here. Too busy playing Gears of War 2 and Fallout 3 and Grand Theft Auto IV, you say? Well you missed out, my friend.Īnyway, let us take a closer look at Angry Birds Star Wars HD. The point is, I am not sure I want to live in a world where a billion people have downloaded Angry Birds, yet only me and about two other people can remember the correct spelling of Boom Blox (Eurogamer 9/10), because nobody bought it back in 2008. As proof, I will tell you that I watch X-Factor every week, have read all the Twilight books and own a DFS sofa. I am not even being anti-populist for the sake of it. That's right, just like Angry Birds, only less shallow and ugly and stupid. It involved chucking projectiles at towers of bricks in a bid to knock them over. "Here's hoping it's only the first of its kind," hahahahahahahahaha.įor those who don't recall, Boom Blox was a physics-based puzzle game. "Boom Blox is a game that will make you glad you own a Wii," I wrote back in May 2008. I am talking, of course, about the disgraceful appropriation by the creators of Angry Birds of the globally loved and respected franchise Boom Blox. Every time this once treasured work of unique artistic majesty is refashioned into another mass market abomination, a part of my soul vomits. Such a travesty to see something so sacred and so much a part of our cultural heritage exploited in this cynical, grasping manner. They’d make billions.Outrageous, that's what it is. If Lucas is this hard up for some cash, maybe he should just release a Jar Jar Binks game where players get to flog the idiot Gungan. The continued bastardization of the Star Wars franchise that I adored in my childhood made me angry once upon a time. At this point, I’m not entirely surprised though. ![]() ![]() Honestly, I can’t help but feel like this is an obvious attempt at a cash grab from Rovio and George Lucas. The game will feature Luke and his rebel scum partners battling the Empire in a number of Star Wars locations, and take advantage of Angry Birds Space’s gravitational dynamics, as well as Star War’s movie soundtrack. The game, which will get the full court press from Rovio, will also be available for Android, in board game format, and obviously plush toys, costumes, candy, card games, tee-shirts, and anything else the company can squeeze a dollar out of with this new partnership. This morning we’re getting official word that the new Star Wars Angry Birds is set to be released on November 8th, 2012. Sites were openly speculating late last week about a Star Wars themed Angry Birds from Rovio.
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