Angry Birds Rio

Angry Birds Rio is a slingshot puzzle game based on the original Angry Birds. The game was released on March 22, 2011. It is a crossover between the game Angry Birds, and a movie named Rio.

Why It Does The Samba!

 * 1) Like Angry Birds Star Wars, the idea of having a crossover Angry Birds games is a brilliant & smart idea, & it is well executed.
 * 2) Like the first 2 Angry Birds games, the graphics are nicely done. Even for 2011 standards.
 * 3) The character models are well made, even for the Rio characters like Blu & Jewel.
 * 4) Awesome soundtrack, with the best being the Rio 1 theme.
 * 5) It is the very first Angry Birds game to introduce boss fights, which is a cool addition to the Angry Birds franchise.
 * 6) It is very faithful to the movie, such as Blu and Jewel being chained together, Luiz the bulldog cutting it which follows with Nigel kidnapping Jewel, the gang going to carnival to save her only for Blu to get captured himself and Nigel getting sliced by the plane propellors.
 * 7) Like the Rio film, Nigel is a really amazing antagonist in the game.
 * 8) The idea about replacing the pigs with the monkeys & birds is a great idea, even for the Rio film.
 * 9) The Level Failed screens are different too, with the pigs laughing being replaced by the monkeys laughing & birds crying in their cages, which is nice.
 * 10) The Rio 2 update was a huge improvement, as they have more levels, more chapters, powerups, & even a tutorial chapter called Playground.
 * 11) The game has the same exact charm as the Rio film.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Like the other slingshot games, some levels are impossible or hard to beat. Making the game unfair.
 * 2) Apart from Blu and Jewel, you can't play as the other characters from Rio.
 * 3) * To make matters worse, Blu and Jewel don't appear in many levels.
 * 4) The latest update of the game isn't great, because it locks the other episodes and it makes it hard to get any power-ups, & coins due to the servers closing, meaning you will have to beat the levels without anything to help unless if you’re lucky.
 * 5) Unfortunately, the game is no longer available as of 2019, in which like the other pre-film games, you can only get it from your purchases if you got it before 2019. And like Star Wars, there isn't any chance of it coming back, since Rovio has licensing issues with Disney, since they own Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox and combined with Blue Sky Studio's shutdown doesn't help matters either. However, since Rio 3 and a Nico and Pedro spin-off are in the works for Disney+, there is a possibility of Rovio and Disney making a new deal to revive Angry Birds Rio to coincide with the new Rio sequels.

Reception
Like the Classic game & Seasons, the game received positive reception from fans & reviewers of Angry Birds alike.

Trivia

 * The game made a cameo in Angry Birds Friends as the 2015 Rio 2 Tournament, where it had the pigs being replaced by monkeys, & the game taking place in Rio 2.
 * 1) This is the first Angry Birds game to be based on a licensed product.