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Angry Birds Rio

Angry Birds Rio is a puzzle video game developed by Rovio Mobile. The game was released as a marketing tie-in with the 20th Century Fox animated film Rio, and was promoted along with the movie. While utilizing…

60 21 March 2011

Angry Birds Rio is an arcade developed by Rovio Entertainment, released 21 March 2011 on Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Angry Birds Rio is

Angry Birds Rio is an arcade game developed by Rovio Entertainment and released in 2011. It is available on Android, iOS, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Windows Phone. It runs on Box2D.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Angry Birds Rio is a 2011 puzzle video game developed and published by Rovio Entertainment. It is a crossover between the Angry Birds and the Rio franchises. The game was released on March 22, 2011, and promoted as a tie-in with 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios, that co-produced the animated films Rio (2011) and Rio 2 (2014). While utilizing the same basic gameplay as in Angry Birds (2009), Angry Birds Rio added a number of new elements, most notably the first use of boss levels. Angry Birds Rio was discontinued on February 3, 2020 along with Angry Birds Star Wars (2012), and its sequel Angry Birds Star Wars II (2013), with the games also being delisted from Google Play and the iOS App…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Angry Birds series

Angry Birds Rio is the fourth of 51 entries we hold in the Angry Birds series. The next entry was Angry Birds Rio HD in 2011. Its critic score of 60 is 15 points below the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Angry Birds Star Wars II at 100.

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How it was received

Angry Birds Rio holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 62, across 62 votes.

What it launched against

Angry Birds Rio launched on 21 March 2011, within three weeks of Crysis 2, Dragon Age 2, Total War: Shogun 2 and Dragon Age II. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Crysis 2, Dragon Age 2, Total War: Shogun 2, Dragon Age II.

Cheats and codes

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When did Angry Birds Rio come out?
Angry Birds Rio was released on 21 March 2011 for Android, iOS, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Windows Phone.

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