Social, for example: you can sign in via Facebook and then take a friend’s character along for each level, tapping a button to call them in for support. Wrapped around this are plenty of other features. It’s also very good fun: a breath of fresh air for Angry Birds.Ĭalling a friend into the action in Angry Birds Transformers.

If you’ve ever looked down your nose at the traditional Angry Birds gameplay as luck rather than skill, you might like Angry Birds Transformers: it’s much more of a twitch game demanding quick responses, a cool head and on-the-hoof strategy. Each character has their own attack, from bullets to laser blasts. Instead, each level sees your current Transformer running along in the foreground, while you tap on scenery and enemies in the background to make them topple and/or explode. Instead, the game plays like a cross between an endless runner, Operation Wolf and Burnout – the latter more in terms of the set-pieces where the game slips into slo-mo as scenery explodes, rather than specific gameplay. Meanwhile, spin-offs like Bad Piggies, Angry Birds Go! and Angry Birds Epic have tested out new forms of gameplay.Īngry Birds Transformers sits with the latter group: no bird-flinging here. In the past, regular Angry Birds games have stuck to a physics-based fling-birds-at-pigs template, albeit refining it over time through new attacks and level designs. The plot is equally far-fetched, not least because it involves the two sides teaming up. The characters are still robots capable of transforming into vehicles, but instead of human heads, they have robotic-looking bird heads, not to mention arms and legs. Red is Optimus Prime, Chuck is Bumblebee, Stella is Arcee and so on.

In this case, that means Autobirds and Deceptihogs or, in equally tongue-in-cheek fashion: “Birds disguised as Robots in Disguise”.

Like the Angry Birds Star Wars games, Angry Birds Transformers maps Rovio’s modern-day birds onto classic characters.

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