Angry Birds Star Wars

Angry Birds Star Wars is a puzzle video game, a crossover between the Star Wars franchise, and the Angry Birds series of video games, launched on November 8, 2012, first for Windows, iOS, and Android devices, later also to Mac and BlackBerry. The game is the fifth Angry Birds game in the series. The characters are copyrighted from George Lucas' double-trilogy. On July 18, 2013, Rovio announced that Angry Birds Star Wars would be heading released for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Wii, Wii U, and the Nintendo 3DS on October 29, 2013 in conjunction with Activision. As of August 2013, the game has been downloaded over 100 million times on its various platforms. The game is a launch title for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
On July 15, 2013, Rovio announced a sequel, entitled Angry Birds Star Wars II. It is based on the Star Wars prequel trilogy and it was released on September 18, 2013.
On February 3, 2020, Angry Birds Star Wars, alongside its sequel, and several other installments in the franchise, including Angry Birds Rio, were discontinued and ultimately removed from the App Store and Google Play due to outdated code. As a result, Star Wars, alongside Star Wars 2 and Rio, can not be added back unless Rovio signs another renewal licensing agreement with Lucasfilm and 20th Century Studios respectively, which is unlikely to ever happen.
==Gameplay==
The game combines elements of both Angry Birds and Angry Birds Space, featuring levels that take place on both standard terrain and in outer space. The game begins on Tatooine, Luke Skywalker's home planet, moves to the Death Star, travels to Hoth, and with an in-app purchase (or earning 3-stars on Tatooine/Death Star) goes to Dagobah, and ends up in Cloud City. With the exclusion of Blue Bird, all the Birds are given new powers not yet seen before in a canon Angry Birds title, some of these that are upgraded as the game progresses further. You can play previously completed levels with the upgraded abilities.
Differences from other games is that Birds may still perform their chosen abilities a split second after colliding with an object. The Millennium Falcon is used instead of the "Mighty Eagle" found in previous games. When a certain number of stars are earned, the player gets a reward. It can be either 5 Millennium Falcons (an item that may be used during normal levels to try to earn badges) or access to a Golden Droid level. There are additional bonus levels if you manage to hit golden droids in selected levels. On June 13, 2013 power-ups were added.
There was a Facebook version of Angry Birds Star Wars that included weekly tournaments in addition to some story levels. It closed down on March 3, 2014.
==Episodes==
Level pack 	Levels 	Release date
1. Tatooine 	1-1 to 1-40 	November 8, 2012
2. Death Star 	2-1 to 2-40 	November 8, 2012
3. Hoth 	3-1 to 3-40 	November 29, 2012
4. Cloud City 	4-1 to 4-40 	March 28, 2013
5. Moon of Endor 	5-1 to 5-30 	September 12, 2013
6. Death Star 2 	6-1 to 6-30 	December 16, 2013
B. Boba Fett Missions	B-1 to B-10 	March 28, 2013
J. Path of the Jedi 	J-1 to J-40 	November 8, 2012
Golden Droid 	S-1 to S-12/D-1 to D-11	November 8, 2012
==Reception==
The game has received favorable reviews with a Metacritic score of 88/100 based on 22 reviews.
Mark Brown of Pocket Gamer gave the title a Gold Award, praising the game for being "faithful to the source material" and "filled with content". Justin Davis of IGN says it is a great game with Star Wars references and Force powers, and has a huge variety of perfectly-tuned stages.
In a 2013 poll on the Rovio website, the game collected the most votes for favorite Angry Birds game. The Facebook version has garnered a lot of positive response as well.
==References==
==External links==
* Official website on rovio.com
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