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Angry Birds

App iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad , Android , Kindle Fire Paid, Free Puzzle Games
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Common Sense Media Review

Christopher Healy By Christopher Healy , based on child development research. How do we rate?

age 7+

Popular knock-down-blocks app pits birds against pigs.

Parents Need to Know

Why Age 7+?

Any Positive Content?

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age 7+

Based on 17 parent reviews

DampBiscuit
DampBiscuit Parent of 8-year-old
January 16, 2019
age 3+

this game is addictive

this game is addictive beware though it is 100% for kids. there is no multiplayer and is harmless!
Xui
Xui Adult
October 11, 2020
age 3+

Horrible

Waste of time!!!!
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What’s It About?

Kids drag and tap their finger on the screen to aim and launch birds out of a giant slingshot to collapse structures and destroy the pigs that are hidden on and inside them. By observing how the birds behave in flight, they'll learn how gravity and momentum affect objects of different consistencies (such as ice, wood, and rock). Players can retry a level as many times as they want without penalty, leaving them free to experiment with different strategies until they've mastered the level.

Is It Any Good?

Our review:
Parents say (17 ):
Kids say (108 ):

ANGRY BIRDS gives players the same kind of visceral, destructive joy as a console game like Boom Blox. Launching items at a stack of blocks or planks, and watching them tumble to the ground is undeniably satisfying. Of course, here, the items you're launching are birds. And the blocks you're knocking down are landing on pigs. But the cartoony graphics and tongue-in-cheek humor does make you laugh at the destruction rather than cringe at it. The game can be quite challenging, and seems to get more so with each successive update. New levels almost always seem harder than the previous ones -- and there are currently 240 levels. However, the addition of the earth-shaking Mighty Eagle is a boon to stuck and frustrated players. It also provides replay value for levels already beaten, since there are all new Mighty Eagle-specific challenges that have also been added.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Help kids build their own structures and knock them over. How can the physics principles learned in Angry Birds be applied to these real-life models?

  • Contrast the physics of this game with its sequel Angry Birds Space. How are the "floaty" physics of Angry Birds Space different?

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