Okay, at mumblety-one years old, I’m pretty ancient as far as Angry Birds enthusiasm goes, but this looks like something I would get presented with as a kid and be like, “oh my god, whoever picked this out is old and give me my iPod.” (But since kids back then had manners I would just think that and outwardly I would say “thank you,” and pretend to be excited and maybe irritatedly chisel about it in my diary-slate.)
Still, tech sites seem to be excited about the impending real-life Angry Birds, (it looks a bit like the game Mousetrap and also apparently serves as a card game of some description) and Electropig describes gameplay . (Which again, when juxtaposed in my mind with my son playing Stick Wars or Driver , seems a bit underwhelming-like the one-variety handheld games that came from the flea market that you had to settle for when hardly anyone had a real Game Boy.)
Players build obstacles, complete with replica birds and pigs from the game before catapulting them into a blocky mess. Here’s the clever bit. It’s also a card-based strategy game. Player One pulls a mission card. Player Two then builds the structure shown on the card for Player One to attempt to knock down to score as many points as possible. The first to 1,000 points wins.
This version of Angry Birds costs $15, and inside each box is a slingshot, three birds, four pigs, 14 blocks and 56 cards. And it appears my initial presumptions about children and an analog version of Angry Birds might have been a bit off-base. In the course of writing this post, I consulted my son about the game and he indicated it would be the “coolest board game ever.”
So, Angry Birds board game- is it going to take off?
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