Angiest Birds EVAR!!!!

(My primary inspiration for downloading the game in the first place)

So stuffing irate birds into slingshots and launching them at egg-thieving swine sounds like the most absurd thing since a plumber ate mushrooms, flowers and stars and went on a violent rampage through a fungal kingdom to take down a lizard king.

So you can understand why it's the highest selling title on its first and secondary platforms of sale. It positively ruled over the iPhone App marketplace, then it soared onto Nokia phones.


(Motivation? Pfft! Let's go for some classic Looney Tunes style revenge at its finest!)

It has since made the trip to the PlayStation Network as one of their "Minis" titles compatible with PS3 and PSP systems. After fighting for my iPhone with my beloved for months, I felt that this purchase was essential. The translation is perfect from the touch phone onto the PS3 (haven't tried it on th PSP yet), the screen resolution seems odd from the transition from phone to console, but the awkwardness is short lived as the need to attack pigs with birds will overtake your concern for aesthetics.

The controls are tight and feel very natural making users of the original game feel right at home as they fight pork with poultry. The idea is still the same, use your arsenal of birds to tear down the protective pig structures and eliminate all pigs on screen, with a secondary mission statement of collecting hidden golden eggs.

I know it sounds simple, but there's a reason people are so addicted and obsessed with this. If you haven't tried it, make every effort to do so. Immediately. Entertainment this amazing is rarely so inexpensive (Like $1 or $2 for the primary game on the iPhone, $4 for the PS3 version with a proposed Xbox Arcade version inbound).

It's too good NOT to own and it's indie stuff like this and Minecraft that bring all the nerdy purity back to gaming that we all need in a day and age when gaming takes itself too seriously and game makers themselves are so concerned with getting their bottom line that they forget to install the fun in them anymore.

How did Yahtzee put it? Something about how back in the day games could be about a french chef riding a praying mantis wielding a shotgun that shoots Velociraptors from its barrels? Yeah, it's THAT kind of "ARE YOU HIGH?!?!" sort of fun that makes Angry Birds a breath of fresh air.