It came quite expected among the many fans of Angry Birds from Rovio new toy called Bad Piggies. After Alex indistinct appearance of the game, whose universe and the characters are part of a masterpiece about the birds, to anticipate another failure would be strange, but... This is not Angry Birds. No, no, we are not nostalgic and do not require that a new game has been like an old, not just if we compare the key parameters affecting the playability and general Lifetime application on the user's smartphone, the Bad Piggies hardly will succeed grandparent.
Plot
to eggs cunning and greedy pigs develop a cunning plan card to obtain these the most eggs, but the plan hits the fan, who guts it into small pieces and scatter on the ground. It is obvious that the plan to draw once more impossible, and pigs go in search of treasured pieces of card.
gameplay
No catapults. Now we know that pigs, despite its apparent dullness (hope this does not offend anyone's feelings pork) are excellent mechanics. The task at each level of the game is to get another map piece. To this end, inveterate boars master is very clever mechanisms. In fact, the game is a puzzle with dynamic and physical component. Remember the toy where it was necessary to build a bridge so that they will withstand the passing train on it? Here is the same, just with a different sauce, and with the possibility of intervention of the player during this same "train passing over the bridge."
First level
So, we have a field to collect our gear. In the first episode of this wheel vehicles, ie cars, but with different twists.
Under the net are the elements that you need to collect the vehicle.
An obligatory condition is the placement of the brave hunter card inside the machine. Here the options really small: two-wheel, three "square" Body and pigs, but! Even in such a simple scheme need to think, because comes in a new system for assessing progress through the levels.
Three stars
Trohzvozdnaya system for assessing the skill levels of the passage remained, but the criteria for the stars have changed. Now when you click on the icon in the upper right corner of the screen before the user opens not only the level of the whole, but also the criteria necessary to obtain stars.
If the level is, with the star of the box, then everything is clear, it should be able to take. In addition, for the stars may be introduced by the passage of time limit mumps route from start to card a piece, as well as transport damage. It's not so easy.
Back to the first level
So, according to the new criteria here we need to drag to the pig safe card, take a box with a star and not to damage the vehicle. If with the design of the machine it is clear everything is in order to avoid its damage, it is necessary to think over the seat of a pig.
Here also emerges when the developer makes too frankly stuck at the level, going through all the possible options for getting the cherished three stars. Someone (perhaps many) like it is "hard work", but in general, if we want to keep the player longer, think of something more elegant, especially since many do not miscalculate the situation in my head, so I have to take an educated bet that is not OK. Perhaps the body flight ballistic easily calculated by our brain, rather than the behavior on the bumps of a mechanism seeking to fall apart and turn against any exposure or gadgets, but in birds, these freaks with the point of impact and miscalculations wanted to do, and then somehow not highly.
Further
More new, more complex levels of geometry, new gadgets, which give the acceleration of transport and so on. The player will be available to the action buttons to enable or disable these gadgets at the right time.
Only mastered the management of vehicles in motion, you will be able to get three stars.
pigs fly
The second episode opens a completely different quality of pigs - the ability to fly. Of course, not with the help of wings, and by the same laws of physics. Starting with the balloons and ending samolotopodobnymi mechanisms. The principle is the same, but now have to combine state physics, not only in driving on the surface, but also in flight. For example, in the first level we have the pig and the ball.
We collect from them the only possible design and run. The player's task - "burst" bead at a time to pig fell on a box with TNT and the blast threw her to the boxes with the stars, and then to a piece of card.
Subsequent levels will add gadgets from the first episode, and in the end all this will lead to a monstrous flying in spite of all the infernal machines.
results
If you live in the design engineer, the game you enjoy. If you do not like to go through all the possible options for the designer collection, just to get a coveted three stars, then the game you will not like. Undoubtedly, the idea of the game is quite interesting, though not new, but its implementation, unfortunately, is quite lame. Dissenters can walk to the opening of the third episode and see for yourself.
Someone will say that in order to feel the game, you need to play it a little longer, but the realities of the market of mobile gaming are that the game has to cling to immediately and permanently, for the competition. One way or another, everyone has their own tastes, and try the toy in action certainly worth it, especially since it's free for Android users, and advertising does not interfere between levels and menu interface. IOS and Mac users prepare money. To Win the game is not yet ready.
Bad Piggies | Android (Free) | Android HD (Free) | iPhone ($0.99) | iPad ($2.99) | Mac ($4.99)