Angry Bunnies: Colossal Carrot Crusade

Genre: Puzzle

Players: 1

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Review:

WARNING: THIS GAME HEAVILY PUSHES MICROTRANSACTIONS

Angry Bunnies: Colossal Carrot Crusade is a Free-To-Play physics-based puzzle game that’s basically a knockoff of Angry Birds. You’re flinging critters with different abilities at structures to hit targets, or cause the structure to collapse onto it.

The entire game feels cheaply-made, with generic visuals, a grating soundtrack that cuts out during play, and an odd announcer. It just all feels like a bunch of disparate elements slapped together to make a game.

This would be forgivable if the gameplay itself were well done, but for a physics-based game, the physics here are lousy. You don’t get a very good feel for how much things weigh, how they’ll react when you hit them, or even what trajectory the birds… er, bunnies… will fly. The entire game feels like an exercise in trial and error where it’s not about correctly guessing what to do, but correctly guessing just how to actually do it.

And then there’s the microtransactions. I tend to take the view of showing leniency to Free-To-Play games when it comes to microtransactions. After all, they have to make their money somewhere, right? However, this game commits the double-whammy of having theming that seems to pretty clearly aim to very young audiences, while also hounding them at every failed mission to buy extra bunnies to keep going instead of having to restart. The whole thing just made me feel a bit dirty playing it.

Considering that Angry Bunnies is copying another Free-to-Play game that does pretty much everything it does a lot better, there doesn’t seem like much reason to recommend this one.

tl;dr – Angry Bunnies: Colossal Carrot Crusade is a physics-based Puzzle game like Angry Birds, except it has a worse presentation, worse gameplay, and is more aggressive about pushing its microtransactions. If you want this sort of game, just get Angry Birds on your Smartphone and skip this.

Grade: D

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This game has been nominated for one or more of eShopperReviews 2019 Game Awards:

Winner:

Laziest Copycat – There are some companies out there that take a game, make a cheap copy of it, put it out for free and load it with microtransactions. Heck, that’s practically a standard business model on smartphones at this point. But it takes a special kind of courage to make a cheap knockoff of a game that’s already free, pump it full of ridiculous microtransactions, and not even bother to put any effort into graphics, presentation, or the gameplay… yet that’s exactly what this terrible Angry Birds clone does.

Runner-Up: Worst Microtransactions

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