The game revolves around a group of birds whose eggs are stolen by a legion of green pigs who wish to eat them. The birds then use a slingshot to destroy the support beams of the pigs. The birds include Red, Chuck, Bomb, Matilda, The Blues, Hal, Stella, Terence, Bubbles, and Mighty Eagle. The pigs are led by the evil King Pig, who is assisted by Foreman Pig, Corporal Pig, Chef Pig, and many Minion Pigs.
Angry Birds is a fantasy-based video game franchise created by the Finnish company Rovio Entertainment. The series focuses on multi-colored birds that try to save their eggs from green-colored pigs. The Angry Birds enemies inspired by Crush the Castle, the game praised for its successful combination of fun gameplay, multi-stage levels, and bad piggies in a mobile game. Its popularity led to many spin-offs: versions of Angry Birds created for PCs and video game consoles; a market for merchandise featuring its characters; Angry Birds Toons, a televised animated tv series; and two films: The Angry Birds Movie and its sequel The Angry Birds Movie 2.
By January 2014, there had been over two billion downloads across all platforms, including both regular and special editions. By July 2015, the series' games downloaded more than three billion times collectively, making it the most downloaded freemium game series of all time. The original Angry Birds game is called one of the most mainstream games out right now. The game was one of the great runaway hits of 2010, and the most significant mobile app success the world has seen so far—the gameplay style of a great puzzle game. The first main-series video game sequel, Angry Birds 2, was released on 30 July 2015.
The first game in the series initially released in December 2009 for iOS became a hit. At the time, the swine flu epidemic was in the news, so the staff decided to use pigs as the enemies of the birds. The company released ports of the game to other touchscreen smartphone operating systems, including Android, Symbian, and Windows Phone, and PCs all plays the game from the Rovio entertainment corporation.