Angry Birds St Patricks Day – Go Green Get Lucky

To celebrate the popular Irish tradition, Rovio (the developers of Angry Birds) released St Patricks Day – Go Green Get Lucky. The game was released as an extension of the Season’s game and followed on from Halloween, Christmas and Valentine’s Day.

Game Differences

As expected, the game did not make any major structural changes. Furthermore, the things that did change were all necessities. For example, there was now an Irish themed background, which included lots of clovers, hills and rather ironically a sunset! In addition, the special point obstacles had been changed from boxes of candy in the Valentine’s Day edition to pots of gold in this one. Striking a pot of gold would give you 3000 points.

Of course, the main addition to the game was the 15 new themed levels. Furthermore, three additional levels could be unlocked if the player liked the game on Facebook. This is a marketing strategy that has been done on past games and has since been performed on newer releases.

Another change was the replacement of the music. This version unsurprisingly decided to use an Irish jaunty jig rather than the ‘soppy’ song that had been used in the Valentine’s Day game.

Reception

As the series of games were probably at the most popular they had ever been, the reality was that this game could have been a complete flop, and it still would have retailed millions. However, this was not the case, and the game actually brought 15 very challenging and carefully thought out levels. This instantly made the game a huge success and further improved the Seasons game.

With this game Rovio had not planned on making a game that would be genre defining. Instead, their changes were minor, and they stuck to what they knew, which, in reality, was enough for the fans of the series, considering that Rio had been released not too long ago. This made this game a success.