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Angry Birds Star Wars for Nintendo Wii
Angry Birds Star Wars for Nintendo Wii mixes the slingshot puzzles of Angry Birds with characters and events from the original Star Wars trilogy. The birds travel from Tatooine and the Death Star to Hoth and Cloud City while Imperial pigs hide behind wood, stone, glass and machines. You pull each bird back, set direction and power and try to hit every target with as few shots as possible. The Wii version contains more than two hundred levels, including twenty puzzles added for the console editions.
Familiar bird abilities have been transformed into Star Wars powers. Luke swings a lightsaber in flight, Obi-Wan pushes blocks with the Force, Han Solo fires aimed blaster bolts and Chewbacca smashes through strong structures with his weight. Some levels take place in space, where gravity fields curve a bird's trajectory. Scores and stars reward efficient solutions; hidden droids and bonus puzzles encourage careful examination of the environment.
With the Wii Remote pointer, you pull back the slingshot, aim and activate powers during flight. Alongside the campaign, the game offers local cooperative play for two players and competitive turns for up to four. Each participant needs a Wii Remote. Multiplayer runs on the same console and does not depend on network servers. All levels and game features are on the disc; online play and additional downloads are not supported.
Region and language
Our Nintendo Wii games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Angry Birds Star Wars supports one player in the campaign, two players in local cooperative play and up to four in local competition. Each participant uses a Wii Remote; a Nunchuk is not required. Every feature is included on the Wii disc, and online play is not supported.
Manual
The manual is missing from this copy of Angry Birds Star Wars for Nintendo Wii. That is why the product title says “No Manual”. You receive the game in its box, without the instruction booklet. This makes the contents clear before you order.
The original printed manual usually contains at least English and often around six European languages. The languages vary by edition; Dutch is not always included. This information describes the original booklet and does not mean that it comes with this copy. A copy with a manual is offered separately when available.
The history of Angry Birds Star Wars
Rovio and Lucasfilm announced Angry Birds Star Wars in October 2012. The first mobile version appeared on 8 November that year and combined the physics puzzles with locations, sounds and roles from Star Wars. The collaboration went beyond a visual theme: the developers gave birds new abilities that translated the Force, lightsabers and blasters into the existing slingshot system.
Activision released the console versions in late 2013 for systems including Nintendo Wii, Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo 3DS. Twenty new levels were added to these editions, and multiplayer appeared in this branch of the series for the first time. Wii uses the Wii Remote pointer; touch functions from Wii U, Vita and handheld versions do not belong to this edition.
The story and presentation mainly draw on A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, supplemented by bonus material and characters from the wider saga. Angry Birds Star Wars II followed on mobile devices in 2013 and covered the prequel trilogy, but received no corresponding Wii edition. The physical Wii disc therefore preserves the first collaboration as a self-contained console version. Its campaign and local multiplayer remain usable without the mobile store pages or online services that later closed.
Similar games for Nintendo Wii
Trilogy uses the same slingshot controls and scoring based on remaining birds, but bundles Angry Birds, Seasons and Rio without Star Wars powers. It has more than seven hundred classic levels and is single-player only on Wii. Star Wars offers fewer levels, but adds lightsabers, Force pushes, blasters, space gravity and local cooperative and competitive play.
LEGO Star Wars also tells the original film trilogy with humour and familiar locations. It is a three-dimensional action adventure, however, in which two players control characters, build and fight. Angry Birds Star Wars condenses the same world into short physics puzzles and has multiplayer participants take turns shooting instead of moving through levels together.
Like Angry Birds, Boom Blox Bash Party uses the Wii pointer, collapsing structures and local challenges for several players. Its blocks are thrown at, shot or pulled away directly in three-dimensional spaces. Star Wars retains a fixed side view and uses each bird's flight path and special power to cause chain reactions.
World of Goo likewise demands insight into weight, connections and gravity. You build a stable route to the exit with goo balls, while Angry Birds instead destroys existing structures with a limited number of projectiles. The space levels in Star Wars add local gravity fields, but the short pursuit of high scores differs from World of Goo's continuous chapters and construction puzzles.
The Force Unleashed uses the Wii Remote for lightsaber movements and places a new action adventure between familiar films. It revolves around direct combat, Force powers and third-person exploration. Angry Birds Star Wars instead uses the same fantasy as a compact brainteaser: Luke and Obi-Wan activate their powers in the middle of a preselected flight path.
