Worms World Party

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $6.54

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ALL HAIL THE WORMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [Posted on 2005-03-29]
This game rocks!It's like every war game mixed together!So buy it!

A casual and easy to learn party game for all ages with a wickedly funny side to it! [Posted on 2006-05-05]
Team17's long running and hilarious Worms franchise has developed quite a cult following in Europe and it is easy to see why. The basic premise of the game is very simple. You control a team of cute little worms in a variety of different and wacky environments as you basically try to blast the hell out of the other worm team. First team to lose all their worms loses the match. Every single bit of the dozens of 2D maps included with the game is destructible and can be used to your advantage. A personal favorite of mine is a map titled "Jail Break", where one team gets a fortress and hides in it as the other team tries to "smoke them out" with all sorts of wacky weapons. "Ahoy Matey" is another great map. In this map two pirate ships face each other and the worms try to board the enemy ship and duke it out for supremacy. The graphics are basic 2D here, nothing fancy at all, and the animations are colorful and appealing, if rather limited.
The game itself is very simple to learn but hard to master. You control the worms with your keyboard's directional buttons and you jump with the "enter" and "backspace" keys. Hotkeys and the mouse are used for selecting weapons and firing is simple as judging the trajectory of your missile based on the wind, and holding down the fire key for an appropriate length of time to set your power. The wind is a very clever twist, and it is visible in the background thanks to the colorful animations. It also offers many strategic possibilities. The missiles can bend and curve, and get thrown about by the wind. Also, a bazooka shot may curve right back at you if you fire into head-wind! Clean simple menus make navigation easy and there is a mind-boggling array of customizability options for your worms. You can customize your team flag, team theme tune, arsenal, and voices.

The worms' voices are hilarious and you can select over 40 different voice types such as Redneck, British, Russian and Cyber-Worm for your team to add a bit of ethnic spice! The high pitched squeaks along with the stereotypical accents make for great fun. Almost every action is met by a comic quip in reply. Here's a good example: One redneck worm squeaked "Yes ma?" as I selected him but mournfully cried "Dangit!" moments later as he was blown out to see by a well placed air strike courtesy of "Bacon", a member of the aptly named opposing team, "The Breakfasts". Brilliant...

This game is meant to be taken light-heartedly in every sense. The crazy people at Team17 and their quirky humor hit their mark again. Weapons include a Sheep that blows up 5 seconds after launching, an old lady that spells doom for anyone near her, a poisonous skunk and a giant metal donkey that absolutely devastates anything that it is dropped over.

Multiplay is where the game really shines. Log on to Wormnet for some really frantic online action or get a couple of buddies on the same computer and take turns blowing each other to bits in the always fun HotSeat. LAN is perhaps the most accessible, and not to mention fun mode. Expect some great moments and a bundle of laughs after a night of Wormage! And surprisingly, the tactics you must devise to win are quite elaborate, and ingenious, especially when you are down to your last worm. There's a good blend of turn-based strategy and no-holds barred action.

There are downsides however. For example, there are not as many weapons present as you would expect. The really fun ones are very rare to find on the maps as the crates that hold them are scattered in hard to reach places, which is a bit of a let-down. There is an Armageddon mode that enables the use of all-weapons though, if you want a really explosive game. This mode takes some fun out of the whole idea of strategy, though.

Another bad thing is that this edition is essentially a rehash of "Worms Armageddon" with a multiplayer online option tossed in. Shame on Team17 and their evil commercialization! Owners of Armageddon might want to pass this one up, as they will not find anything drastically different other than a new, albeit robust online service. The single player AI can be very stupid sometimes, and once you get a few hours under your belt anything under a "4 Difficulty" may prove to be too easy. There is not much in the way of single-player options offered. "World Party" was clearly designed to be a multiplayer game, and it is very much the quintessential party game, and very child-friendly to boot. Apart from the mildly amusing explosions there is nothing in the way of graphic violence or profanity included.

The bottom line is, if you own "Worms Armageddon" then you might want to pass this one up, but if you're a Worms-virgin then you should definitely consider picking this game up and getting some friends over for some worm smackin' action!

Cool game/poor retailer [Posted on 2006-09-06]
Amazon what is wrong with you these days? This game is not for the PC as listed, the version I wanted, it is for the Dream Cast. Amazon please pull your head out of where you stuck it, your site and service is getting worse every time I try to buy something.

The echelon of the Worms series [Posted on 2007-01-03]
The 3d versions are fun, but nothing beats the classic.

I <3 (to you peeps that don't get <3, it's a heart..) [Posted on 2007-07-04]
I love this game!!! = ) (smiley)
You make a team of worms, you give them there own fort (for castle battles), there own special weapon, languge, grave and flag!Then you go to war with outher worms! Over 50 weapons! = )

I would get Worms Armegeddon though, it will be supported for another 30 years I bet...

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