History VideoGame / AngryBirds2

* BalefulPolymorph: The Magician pig shoots a spell that can change your bird into a random object. Sometimes it's something harmless like a teddy bear, other times it can be something potentially useful like a rock or a rocket. Sometimes it's even another pig, or in really rare occasions, a Golden Pig.

* LevelUp: You can earn colored feathers that increase the damage your birds will do and unlock levels of the arena once all the birds reach a certain number of feathers. They are earned in the bonus chests you get every few levels, and every 24 hours you can get a free reward that will often be feathers. Before the arena became a one-on-one competition, you could earn feathers as a prize there.

* OhCrap: When you play the Mighty Eagle, the pigs give a faint "Uh-oh!" just as the background music stops, a few seconds before the Eagle zooms past.

** If you clear a stage with one bird, you earn a 25,000 point "Strike" reward.

** The Golden Duck spell rains golden ducks on the towers to pop pigs and possibly topple towers. Variants of this have also been used, usually as some form of ProductPlacement such as the bats from ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania2'' and the Hatchlings from the ''Film/AngryBirds'' movie.

* OhCrap: When you play the MightyEagle, the pigs give a faint "Uh-oh!" just as the background music stops, a few seconds before the Eagle zooms past.

** The Golden Duck spell rains golden ducks on the towers to pop pigs and possibly topple towers.

* OneHitKO: If you clear a stage with one bird, you earn a 25,000 point "Strike" reward.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: The crystals you earn as bonuses can be used to "buy" extra chances to continue a level, extra spells, or entries in the arena.

* BalefulPolymorph: Some pigs have a weapon that changes your bird into a random object. Sometimes it's something harmless like a teddy bear, other times it can be something potentially useful like a rock or a rocket.
* [[ManEatingPlant Bird-Eating Plant]]: Stages at the Colbalt Plateau feature plants that will swallow anything that touches them, including birds.

* BossBattle: In each area, every 10-15 levels, you have to defeat one of the three "boss" pigs (Chef Pig, Foreman Pig, and King Pig, in that order). Once all three are beaten, you can move to the next area.

* LevelUp: You can earn colored feathers that increase the damage your birds will do and unlock levels of the arena once all the birds reach a certain number of feathers. They are earned in the bonus chests you get every few levels and as prizes in the arena.

** Each stage within a level are procedurally generated; the basic layout of a level will always be the same, but the individual structures in that level will change every time. You'll see a lot of the same structures/layouts in different levels as you progress through the game, but you could play the same level many times and never quite get the exact same layout twice, aside from the last stages of the boss levels.
** The placement of certain types of pigs, objects like TNT, etc. within the structures is also somewhat randomized. If you're really lucky, this results in a golden pig showing up when you really need it, or even an AutomaticLevel where a missing piece in a structure causes it to topple and bring down everything around it before you've even done anything. If you're really unlucky (which happens far more often), you'll have a magician pig in a spot that you can't really avoid aiming at, and you just have to hope he doesn't transform your bird into something useless when he zaps it.

** And sometimes the game gives you a spell card instead of a bird card. You're in luck if it's something like the Mighty Eagle that can clear an entire room, but certain spells like the Blizzard or the Golden Duck can be rather ineffective against certain level configurations, so you're out of luck when a last-minute 1-up gives you one of these instead of a bird that can be aimed at a specific target.

* [[PopGoesTheHuman Pop Go the Piggies]]: The Pig Inflater spell massively inflates several pigs. It doesn't pop them right away, but it can cause them to squeeze out of towers and platforms to fall and/or collapse buildings.

* ShoutOut: Some levels have a pig [[Film/MaryPoppins wearing a black hat with a flower that floats around using an umbrella]]. These pigs are harder to take out since the umbella lets them slow down their fall.
* SmartBomb: The Mighty Eagle is now one of the spells you pick up instead of something you have to purchase, although you have to spend crystals to get more uses once your initial supply runs out. Instead of smashing objects on the screen, his zooming flyby takes out the pigs and knocks down towers.

* VentPhysics: Several stages have fans that can be used to guide birds and will also blow debris and spent birds around the screen for extra potential damage.

* UnskilledButStrong: Terrence is the only Bird without an ability. He makes up for this by being able to easily smash through most obstacles.

* [[PopGoesTheHuman Pop Goes the Piggies]]: The Pig Inflater spell massively inflates several pigs. It doesn't pop them right away, but it can cause them to squeeze out of towers and platforms to fall and/or cause collapses.

** Each stage within a level are procedurally generated; the basic layout of a level will always be the same, but the individual structures in that level will change every time. The placement of certain types of pigs, objects like TNT, etc. within those structures is also somewhat randomized. You'll see a lot of the same structures/layouts in different levels as you progress through the game, but you could play the same level many times and never quite get the exact same layout twice, aside from the last stages of the boss levels.

* SmartBomb: The Mighty Eagle is now one of the spells you pick up instead of something you have to purchase, although you have to spend crystals to get more uses once your initial supply runs out. Instead of smashing objects on the screen, his zooming flyby takes out the pigs and pushes towers into falling.

* [[ManEatingPlant Bird-Eating Plant]]: Some stages feature plants that will swallow anything that touches them, including birds.

* ShoutOut: Some levels have a pig [[Film/MaryPoppins wearing a black hat with a flower that floats around using an umbrella]].

* OneHitKO: If you clear a stage with one bird, you earn a 20,000 point "Strike" reward.
* OneUp: Filling the meter at the top of the screen will earn you back one of your spent birds, or sometimes a spell although this is fairly uncommon. This is normally done by destroying the , but you can also hit a golden pig to instantly fill the meter.

* SuperSpit: The aforementioned plants that swallow what hits them? They spit the objects right back out, often at much higher velocities than before. As the plants are usually strategically located in the stages, it's a good idea to drop debris down to where they can glom onto it. Sometimes even launching a bird straight into one is better than launching the bird at the tower(s), especially since the birds can still use their abilities even after being spit out.

* VentPhysics: Several stages have fans that can be used to guide birds and will also blow debris around the screen for extra potential damage.

* OneUp: Filling the meter at the top of the screen will earn you back one of your spent birds, or sometimes a spell although this is fairly uncommon. This is normally done by destroying parts of the towers, but you can also hit a golden pig to instantly fill the meter.

* UnskilledButStrong: Terrence is the only Bird without an ability. He makes up for this by being able to easily smash through obstacles.

While the story is the same (the birds are after the pigs for nabbing their eggs) and gameplay is fundamentally the same, there are ''many'' changes that make the game feel totally different from the original. The graphics, sound effects, and animations are much more advanced, there are more features, and it incorporates many of the elements that were introduced in previous AB SpinOff games. The flock has also gone through some changes, most notably introducing a new bird, Silver, who does a backwards loop and plummets straight down with great force.

* ActionBomb: The Red Pepper spell causes one pig to "ignite" and explode much like Bomb's power.

* AnIcePerson: The Snowflake spell will change all the towers' materials to ice in the stage where it's used.

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* PutOnABus: Hal, Bubbles, and Stella are (so far) nowhere to be found. Silver's power incorporates the backwards turning aspect of Hal's ability, and the Pig Puffer takes Bubbles' ballooning and uses it on the pigs as a weapon. Nothing so far replicates Stella's bubbling ability.
* ShowsDamage: The pigs, in addition to the black eyes and lumps they got in the original game, can now sport bandages if they take glancing hits. The boss bigs are also bandaged and lumped up once they're defeated.

* DeathFromAbove: The Golden Duck spell rains golden ducks on the towers to pop pigs and possibly topple towers.

While the story is the same (the birds are after the pigs for nabbing their eggs) and gameplay is fundamentally the same, there are ''many'' changes that make the game feel totally different from the original. The graphics, sound effects, and animations are much more advanced, there are more features, and it incorporates many of the elements that were introduced in previous AB games. The flock has also gone through some changes, most notably introducing a new bird, Silver, who does a backwards loop and plummets straight down with great force.

* LevelUp: You can earn colored feathers that increase the damage your birds will do and unlock levels of the arena.

* [[PopGoesTheHuman Pop Goes the Piggies]]: The Pig Inflater spell massive several pigs; it doesn't pop them right away, but it can cause them to squeeze out of towers and platforms to fall and/or cause collapses.

While the story is the same (the birds are after the pigs for nabbing their eggs) and gameplay is fundamentally the same, there are ''many'' changes that make the game feel totally different from the original. The graphics, sound effects, and animations are much more advanced, there are more features, and it incorporates many of the elements that were introduced in previous AB games. The flock has gone through some changes, most notably introducing a new bird, Silver, who does a backwards loop and plummets straight down with great force.

* DisasterDominoes: This is even more important for gameplay than in the original game. Every level has stages with multiple towers placed at different heights, as well as blocks and TNT crates suspended in the air, and as you have limited chances to continue, figuring out exactly where to topple towers and drop items so you conserve birds is a must. Also, as you destroy objects you earn points that go toward retrieving used birds, so doing as much damage as you can in a stage is very important.

* SmartBomb: The Mighty Eagle is now one of the spells you pick up instead of something you have to purchase. Instead of smashing objects on the screen, his zooming flyby takes out the pigs and pushes towers into falling.

* OneUp: Filling the meter at the top of the screen will earn you back one of your spent birds. This is normally done by destroying parts of the towers, but you can also hit a golden pig to instantly fill the meter.

* ActionBomb: The Red Pepper spell causes one pig to explode much like Bomb's power.

* TacticalRockPaperScissors: In addition to knowing which birds are effective against which tower material, you also have to be smart about choosing which bird to use depending on the arrangement and construction of the towers.