Have you played Angry Birds? It’s the number one paid iPhone app in dozens of countries and over 10 million copies of the game have been purchased. It’s actually quite fun—you fling angry cartoon birds at various structures made of wood, glass, and stone in an attempt to knock the buildings down and kill all the green piggies inside (because the piggies stole the angry birds’ eggs—that’s why they’re angry). Here it is in action.
Over the past week I’ve dedicated more hours than I’m willing to admit to playing this stupid addictive game, but the other night it got weird. The birds are basically little suicide bombers. They sacrifice themselves to knock down these buildings and kill the pigs in an act of revenge. In the first level of the second world, there’s a building that looks just like the Empire State Building. And you’re supposed to bomb it. From the air. With these little angry birds.
BOMB NEW YORK. FROM THE AIR. WITH ANGRY SUICIDAL BIRD TERRORISTS.
I can’t be the only person who finds this a little awkward.
Could be worse, could by Zynga’s Farmville.
Did you hear Keith Olbermann got suspended for using his constitutional rights?
Angry Birds is awesome. Also, I believe that’s Big Ben next to the Empire State Building.
It is my favorite time waster in the world. Did you get the Halloween version too?
I realize it hasn’t been ten years yet, but you know, it’s probably time to let go of parts of the NYC thing, at least when it starts making you second-guess a goddamn video game.
I must have been corrupted by the more graphically violent and bloody video games. I just find the whole Al-Queda birdies thing to be darkly humorous.
Oh yeah, btw, doesn’t the tower on the left of that level look just like the Tower Clock (Big Ben)? Remember Remember the Vth of November.
There’s a level where the piggies are on a ‘bus’. You have to blow up the bus. I felt a little strange while playing this level. But then I realized its a video game where birds are launched to kill pigs that stole their eggs. I got over it real quick.
That’s nothing compared to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, in which you, playing as a CIA operative, infiltrate a terrorist group which goes on massacre an entire airport.
Ugh my boyfriend is addicted to this game…