No, seriously. The mobile game that iPhone users have been diggin’ on since December of last year is now available open beta on Android for free. And even in beta, it’s got more polish than any Android game we’ve ever seen.
Seriously, it plays as well as it appears to in the footage above – everything, from the launching to the multitouch, is totally seamless and intuitive. Hopefully once it’s released, this game does well in the Market and starts a trend of highly-polished games on Android, because fellas, we need ‘em.
Here, I want you to play this so bad that I’ve even posted a QR code of the game to the right. Just pull out your phone and scan it with Google Goggles, click the Market link that pops up, and download. You will not regret it.
Update: Okay, so the beta isn’t showing up in the Market for a lot of users, and nobody is quite sure why. Rovio Mobile is aware of the issue and looking into it – in the meantime, keep your eyes the dev’s twitter and on the game’s AppBrain page to see if the issue gets resolved.
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Great. Android has just become the Mac of the casual gaming market. The only good stuff it’ll have will be the iPhone’s hand-me-downs.
I’m good with hand-me-downs for now. As market share improves and more phones have up-to-date hardware and OS revisions, things will get better. First we’ll see more simultaneous iPhone/Android releases, then we’ll start getting some exclusives.
I mean, there are exclusives on Android right now, but they’re nothing to speak of.
Aww damn. I wanted to play it… I guess I’ll just play it on my iPod for now :/
ARRRGH!!
I have issues with how (the currrent versions of) android work. All the apps go into (what I think is) the RAM and you can’t have them stored any External memory, Hell you can hardly install that many them on the internal memory since there isn’t that much of it
Newer devices have around half a gig of this to play with, but it’s still too little considering Iphones/pods can store as much apps as the flash memory will allow. I would really like to play around with the qwerty Droid/milestone 2 to see if you can use the 8 gig internal storage for apps &/or games.
But untill Android and the handset makers get together and allow the in built (flash, not RAM) memory to be used for app/game storage, android will always loose out in the games market!!