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Title: Blast boats out of the water in Rovio's raucous Battle Bay
Post by: HCK on August 24, 2017, 04:05:13 pm
Blast boats out of the water in Rovio's raucous Battle Bay

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<p>Free-to-play games often look appealing, but it’s difficult to know at a glance whether the business model is insidious and fun ruining, or reasonable and worth pumping a few bucks into. With Freemium Field Test (http://www.macworld.com/column/freemium-field-test/), we’ll take a recent free-to-play iOS game, put it through its paces, and let you know if it’s really worth your time (and money).</p><p>Rovio is best known for Angry Birds, but that franchise falls deeper into irrelevance with each passing entry (http://www.macworld.com/article/3072653/software-games/fair-or-fowl-we-rank-all-16-angry-birds-games.html). The latest, Angry Birds Evolution (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/angry-birds-evolution/id1104911270?mt=8), is an almost impressively misguided attempt to give the brand a gritty makeover… because what’s been missing from the pull-and-fling franchise is surely a harder edge and 100-plus new characters, right?</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3207327/ios/blast-boats-out-of-the-water-in-rovios-raucous-battle-bay.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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