Bad Piggies is a painfully challenging departure from Angry Birds (review)
Bad Piggies offers a generous mix of physics-based gameplay and vehicle creation. The game (out now for iOS, Android, Mac, with PC and Windows Phone coming soon) gives players an assortment of parts and expects them to get across each level's finish line to earn a star and move to the next...
Gameplay may sound simple enough, and the touch controls and basic mechanics make getting around in the game easy, but the difficulty curve is light-years away from what mobile gamers familiar with Angry Birds are used to; Spending a half-hour on a single level is more common than you might expect.
Rovio is no stranger to microtransactions, but Bad Piggies' occasionally extreme difficulty may already be a big enough turnoff; Because levels can't be skipped, if players get stuck, there are only three options: cheat (look up how to beat the level), pay at least $2 for a "mechanic" to build the...