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, Anakin Skywalker and Luke Skywalker's home desert planet, moves to the Death Star I in parallel with A New Hope, travels to Hoth, then Cloud City in parallel with The Empire Strikes Back, and eventually ends up with Endor and Death Star II in parallel with Return of the Jedi. 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. Players can replay previously completed levels with the upgraded abilities.
Differences from other games are that Birds may still perform their chosen abilities a split second after colliding with an object. The Millennium Falcon is called the Mighty Falcon and 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 Mighty 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 the player manages 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.[7][8]
Discontinuation
In December 2019, Rovio announced that Angry Birds Star Wars would be discontinued on February 3, 2020, alongside Angry Birds Star Wars II, Angry Birds Space, Angry Birds Rio, and other games. The game was pulled from both App Store and Google Play. In a 2021 interview, nearing the rerelease of the original Angry Birds, Rovio employee Steve Porter stated that the Rio and Star Wars games were unlikely to be rereleased due to third-party licensing.[9]
The game has received favorable reviews on mobile with a Metacritic score of 88/100 based on 22 reviews.[10] 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".[16] 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.[17] However, the console version got negative reviews.
In a 2013 poll on the Rovio website, the game collected the most votes for favorite Angry Birds game.[18] The Facebook version has garnered a lot of positive response as well.[19]
^Justin Davis 7 Nov 2012 (7 November 2012). "Angry Birds Star Wars Review". IGN. Archived from the original on 16 July 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
