In the latest episode of Cost of a Coffee, Professor Kelvin Harris and his Lab Assistant Brian are taking a good, hard look at Rovio’s Angry Birds 2, which is available now for free on Android and iOS now.
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He looks at the improvements that the spiritual successor (though not the sequential successor) to the original Angry Birds has made to the series and asks if they are a necessary iteration, or a case of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
The Prof also discusses the elephant in the room… Not Dumbo as Brian believes, but the game’s transition to a freemium model. Here’s a brief spoiler warning… the Prof doesn’t think it’s as bad a move as a lot of reviewers have been proclaiming.
Some might say that the official launch trailer alone is worth buying a couple of gems for…
All in all Angry Birds 2 is an improvement on the original in the Prof’s opinion and that the micro-transactions really aren’t distracting enough to put of casual gamers with even an ounce of self-restraint. If you want to know how he came to that opinion, then have a listen to the podcast in the player above, by downloading it here, or by using any podcatcher of your particular choosing.
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The Verdict
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