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I was ok with the Angry Birds franchise right up until the shitty kart racing game they pumped out. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more wretched collection of bare-faced advertising and micro transactions as that fucking piece of shit.
The game was crammed full of new pop songs, and when one would play the game would display a link to buy it from iTunes. I couldn’t let my kid play it, it was just too egregious.
Haven’t touched any of those games since. Which is a shame, because I really enjoyed the original.
That kart game was genius programming, give you a few initial levels where it let you think that you're driving the kart, that you're winning because of your skills, then start the real routine of "autopilot simulator programmed to lose until you activate the paid power ups"
Edit: and I can't believe that more than ten years passed from the release of that "game", I remember I was playing it on my BlackBerry Z10, i can see why many itt are saying "always has been shitty" - just a year before they weren't shitty. Gameloft released games like "9mm" and "batman the dark knight" that for just one dollar were console like experiences. And beach buggy racing, and riptide.