Angry Birds Space Is Still The Best Spin-Off

Andrew looks back at Angry Birds Space

- Andrew Duncan

It's been 10 years since Rovio released AngryBirds Space, and despite releasing multiple sequels to many spin-offs, they've never managed to capture the originality again.

I know, I know, Angry Birds was a clone of Crush The Castle, I played that back in the day too. It's a genre that I adore (Angry Birds Journey notwithstanding…), because I like destroying structures in games. I also know that it's incredibly likely that someone made Crush The Castle But In Space at some point, but I'll be honest it, never came across my screen.

In Angry Birds Space, the birds all have the same powers as in the original game (but the yellow one is purple?), and are chasing the pigs across the solar system to get their egg steroids back. Then across multiple systems and dimensions. Rather than flinging birds at quickly constructed buildings in a horizontal line from your catapult, you have to contend with asteroids, ice asteroids, popcorn, and gravity.