In the game (sorry, inevitability simulator) you are matched against a random opponent online, and you’re both presented with the same board of colorful birds to match. It’s just like when you chose that bowl of cereal over a piece of toast this morning: Was it really your decision? Or just the accumulation of trillions of events since the Big Bang that happened to lead to one synapse firing over the other? We’re all just machines, man, and those bird flinging bastards over at Rovio are here to wake us the hell up. Your triumphant victory or bitter loss was all but inevitable, based almost entirely on factors that were set up ahead of time and out of your control. You see, the game makes it seem like your furious matching skills are deciding your fate every round, but in actuality this is an illusion. Angry Birds Fight! (Free) is actually a bold exploration of the concept of free will in a deterministic universe. It appears to have all the trimmings and trappings of the popular (if a bit tired) genre: a grid of colorful tiles, characters to collect, loot to be gained, and–of course–multiple timers and currencies, all dressed up in that familiar Angry Birds style. Scrolling through the App Store screenshots, I can see how one might be led to believe the latest Angry Birds game is just another free-to-play match 3 battler.
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