Angry Birds Star Wars II is a sequel to Angry Birds Star Wars, focusing on the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy (The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith). It is the sixth installment of the Angry Birds series and the third to be a crossover, after Rio and Star Wars.
The primary feature of Star Wars II is the ability to side with either the Republic (Bird Side, ) or the Dark Side (Pork Side, ), each with their own sets of playable characters and chapters.[1] The game also features the use of "Telepods", plastic stands that enable players to import special character toys into the game, which the character then be used in-game.[2]
Plot
Bird Side
Pork Side
Gameplay
Angry Birds Star Wars II is a slingshot video game with similar gameplay to that from previous Angry Birds games. In the game, the player takes control of a limited group of playable characters, who can be launched anywhere by the use of a slingshot. All levels have a series of enemies the player must take down by the use of their characters. These enemies are normally sheltered inside of structures made of wood, glass, and/or metal, in addition of some additional objects, such as chains and TNT. If the player fails to kill all the enemies in the levels, they will get a Level Failed screen, encouraging them to try again. If they manage to do so however, they will win and pass to the next level. Upon completing each level, the player will receive one, two, or three stars depending on the score received.
All characters in the game are part of either the Bird or the Pork Side, though they all have similar gameplay. In addition, the player may also replace the current character with another one they have in their inventory, granting them more possibilities to beat the levels. However, these additional characters are limited and the player will be unable to use them if they run out of them. To compensate this however, the player will be able to spend credits in the shop to get more characters to play with.
Characters
Playable characters
Bird Side
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Pork Side
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Enemies
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Bosses
Bird Side
- Naboo Invasion boss (only appearance)
- Sebulba Pig (only appearance)
- Battle of Naboo boss (only appearance)
- Zam Wesell (only appearance)
- Count Dooku (only appearance)
- The Inquisitor (only appearance)
Pork Side
- Naboo Invasion boss (only appearance)
- Qui-Gon Jinn (only appearance)
- Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi Wan Kenobi (only appearance)
- Obi Wan Kenobi (Rise of the Clones)
- Obi Wan Kenobi (Revenge of the Pork)
- Kanan Jarrus (only appearance)
Episodes
Other modes
Shop
The shop is where the characters can buy new characters to use in the levels.
Carbonite Reward
Carbonite Reward is an additional mode in which the player can melt some Carbonite to save the character inside. This process takes eight hours, though it can be instantaneous with the use of Credits, and required Wi-Fi connection.
Differences from the movies
- Nute Gunray and Rune Haako were never shown in the "Naboo Invasion" invasion, even though they appeared in the movie.
- Palpatine and Maul never appeared as holograms in the first "Naboo Invasion" cutscene.
- Jinn and Obi-Wan never met with Yoda, nor did Yoda helped them defeat battle droids, rather Yoda is in the Jedi Council with other Jedi.
- Captain Panaka and Padme were not in trouble with the Pig Tank, only Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan saved Jar Jar from the Pig Tank. There wasn't a sequential chapter where Kenobi, Jinn and Jar Jar went to the underwater city of Naboo.
- The Pork Side stories are mixed and start in the storyline of "Attack of the Clones."
- Jango Fett, Count Dooku, and Zam Wesell were never in "The Phantom Menace."
- It is unknown why Jango was the first playable pig in the storyline of episode "Naboo Invasion."
- Dooku didn't join the Dark Side until after the death of Darth Maul. Similarly, even though Dooku was once a Jedi, he is portrayed as a pig instead of a bird. Even though the DK readers books did say Dooku was a Jedi at one point.
- The Jedi Council was never shown in the game, until "Rise of the Clones". However, only Yoda, Mace Windu, Ki-Adi Mundi, and Plo Koon were shown.
- Qui-Gon, Kenobi, Padme, Jar Jar, and Panaka never ran into Maul and Dooku after Anakin won the podrace.
- There is no cutscene where Maul fell into the hole or him battling the heartbroken Obi-Wan. Darth Maul was never cut in half by Kenobi, probably to make the game more kid-friendly. Darth Maul was never defeated in the game, but he doesn't appear in future levels.
- Qui-Gon and Count Dooku never were stunned by a lightsaber. Rovio probably made it "stun" for the game to be more kid-friendly.
- Captain Typho did not appear in Rise of the Clones and Revenge of the Pork. Instead, Captain Panaka took the role of Typho.
- Clone Troopers are Stormtroopers. However, in the movie, they have different designs.
- The sequence before the Battle of Genosis and the Arena Battle is omitted.
- There is not a cutscene where Anakin Skywalker of Episode I works for Darth Maul. Also, Maul does not give Anakin some jobs in this game, but he does so in Episode I.
- The Battle of Genosis is the only Clone Wars battle to be shown.
- Between the Invisible Hand and the Mustafar battle, the Battle of Kashyyk, and other sequences in Revenge of the Sith, are omitted.
- The Pork Side section of Rebels starts in the episode "Droids in Distress, unlike the Bird Side that starts in "Spark of Rebellion".
- Clone Troopers were seen shooting blue blaster bolts when in the movie and the shows, but here the bolts were red.
Trivia
- This is the first and, so far, only Angry Birds game that allows pigs to directly combat birds, as, in the original Angry Birds, they fought eggs in the bonus King Pig levels, and in Bad Piggies, they were forced to defend from and evade the birds.
- In the game, the Battle Droids are yellow, but their Telepod figure is white.