![]() The "Red Planet" and "Beak Impact" episodes are based on NASA's Mars programme and the proposed Asteroid Retrieval Mission. Product Placement/ Loophole Abuse: What do you mean, NASA couldn't legally advertise? Unless Rovio asked them of course.Nuclear Nasty: In the "Beak Impact" episode, rocks with radioactivity signs can shatter and create bubbles of radioactivity (complete with Geiger counter clicking) that turn pigs into bloated, three-eyed monsters before popping them.Pigs that are flung out of an atmosphere will also freeze and then break. Literally Shattered Lives: Pigs that the ice bird freezes can be shattered by flinging another bird at it.The aforementioned giant pig is completely impervious to birds and can only be defeated by making him eat inedible objects. Kevlard: In some levels, there are fat pigs that are more resilient than regular pigs because most projectiles bounce off of their body.Additionally, Hal has been functionally replaced by Chucks new ability (flying towards where the player taps the screen), which explains his absence. note This may be because Matilda and Stellas abilities rely on gravity to work properly, and the majority of levels in Space do not have consistent gravity. Stella and Hal have also been seemingly forgotten. Worse, she is also always absent in the trailers, with the reason of her unpopularity unknown. Notable because she is one of the five original members of the Flock. Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Matilda has strangely been left out of Space.Batman Can Breathe in Space: Unlike the pigs, the birds are zooming around in vacuum with no ill effects.In real life, this wouldnt happen because there is no air in space, which means no friction to slow stuff down, so anything that gets flung away will keep moving at that exact speed until it hits something. Artistic License Physics: When a block or pig is flung off into space, they will eventually slow down until they stop. ![]() Asteroid Thicket: The premise of several levels.Asteroid Miners: The pig are this on the ARM Initiative inspired "Beak Impact" episode.Speaking of Samsung, the exclusive content (or "egg-sclusive," as Rovio jokes) weren't available to try - not that it'd have likely influenced your choice to by a Galaxy product, anyway. Subjective banter, sure, but we certainly weren't having any luck in our admittedly brief playtime.Īlthough we played on a Galaxy Note, using the stylus was more of an impediment to our play - the blunt force (and higher coefficient of friction) of a finger just felt more natural, and given the dotted line trajectory assistance, plenty accurate. Still, for three-star veterans, there's a Danger Zone world that's intended to be some of the hardest games the company has designed. That isn't to say the game is any more challenging than its predecessor - it just calls for a new way of thinking. And to be honest, the gravitationally-inclined (and at times -disinclined) mechanic does add enough of a fresh element that we will probably be losing hours to the game later this month. Full disclosure: it wasn't until watching NASA's Angry Birds Space tutorial that we decided to drop everything and head over to Samsung's SXSW booth and check out the latest Rovio title.
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