The Worms series: Blowing up invertabrae for over ten years.
Worms 2: Armageddon has just recently come out on Xbox Live, and it’s a pretty fun experience. The premise is simple: You get a platoon of four worms armed with a multitude of weapons including but not limited to bazookas, shotguns, grenades, uzis, blowtorches and sheep. Your mission: Kill those enemy worms! That’s about it.
When you start up the game, you’re tasked with naming your team and each individual worm. I named my worms after my high school buddies (My Estonian friend Mauno is often killed first). Next you’re offered to do the tutorials or to just jump right into the action. The campaign mode has no real story beyond “Solve this puzzle” or “Kill the enemy worms”, but a story wouldn’t really fit well with the context of the game, so I’ll let it slide. The multiplayer covers both local and Xbox Live, so you can take on other people with your worms, which is cool.
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The environment is entirely destructible, so when you blow one of those enemy worms to kingdom come, you leave nice a little crater in the ground. Of course, this means your tactics and strategies must always change along with the environment. Gravity doesn’t affect the environment, which is bittersweet. It would be but it would be cool if they made that a feature that one could toggle - It’d be awesome to have two of your worms flank a bridge of other worms, and destroy both ends of it, sending the enemy to their doom… Am I a sadistic person?
The worms have cutesy voices, and you can pick what kind of accent you want your little guys to have. Voices include English (as in british), American (Wait, American is its own language?) Australian, Irish, Movie Announcer, Advertisement guy, and plenty others. However, these voices can get rather annoying once you hear the same damn thing repeated at the beginning of every turn.
Ultimately, the game is entertaining, but it can get boring after a long bout of play. Recommended for a lazy afternoon, but don’t expect to play it for more than a few hours unless you have a long attention span.
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- Worms
- Score: 3.00/5.0
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- GamePro's Score: 3.25/5.0
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