Worms: Open Warfare
Worms: Open Warfare
The worms are back for another battle against each other and finally back to their 2D roots. Can the classic series keep up the reputation?
For those of you who haven’t heard of the worms series I shall fill you in on the info, The game is a turn-based strategy consisting of 2 to 4 teams the last team standing wins. You take control of your very own worm army and set out to defeat your opponent, which can be against computer, or human controlled characters. To take out the enemy you must use an arsenal of weapons to kill the other worms by either depleting their HP or making them fall into the water hazard found on each stage.
Worms has always been fun and easily enjoyable, until this version! It feels like the game was rushed, there is no reason why they couldn’t have spent a bit more time getting rid of the countless number of faults and glitches. The most annoying fault in this game is in the single play mode, the cpu’s AI is so slow! They spend most of or sometimes all their turn doing absolutely nothing it really brings down the pace of the game.
The graphics for this game are disappointing considering what the ds is capable of. The actual worms look like they belong on the NES maybe they should have done what Sonic and Mario are doing by going back to their 2D roots and have some modern 3D graphics.
Another fault with this game is that they have lowered the numbers of pretty much everything. The number of weapons has dropped hugely and there is not a single new weapon in sight, the number of worms on a team has dropped to four from eight and the number of different challenges has dropped making it less of a game than the classics.
One thing that this game does right, which almost makes it worth buying, is the multiplayer, the single pack play is quick and it has all of the features you want. If your friends don’t have a ds, thanks to the turn based game play you can share one ds between 4 people.
Conclusion:
Graphics 40% there is nothing wrong with using 2D just use it properly.
Sound: 50% not the worst music in the world but their not exactly catchy tunes.
Controls: 65% the touch screen works well in game play, menus seems unresponsive, the control layout is decent.
Lasting appeal: 50% if you enjoy the game the multiplayer is good enough to make it stay in your ds a bit longer but chances are your not going to like the game.
Overall: 45%
How did they get it so wrong?
-Miles Ross
The worms are back for another battle against each other and finally back to their 2D roots. Can the classic series keep up the reputation?
For those of you who haven’t heard of the worms series I shall fill you in on the info, The game is a turn-based strategy consisting of 2 to 4 teams the last team standing wins. You take control of your very own worm army and set out to defeat your opponent, which can be against computer, or human controlled characters. To take out the enemy you must use an arsenal of weapons to kill the other worms by either depleting their HP or making them fall into the water hazard found on each stage.
Worms has always been fun and easily enjoyable, until this version! It feels like the game was rushed, there is no reason why they couldn’t have spent a bit more time getting rid of the countless number of faults and glitches. The most annoying fault in this game is in the single play mode, the cpu’s AI is so slow! They spend most of or sometimes all their turn doing absolutely nothing it really brings down the pace of the game.
The graphics for this game are disappointing considering what the ds is capable of. The actual worms look like they belong on the NES maybe they should have done what Sonic and Mario are doing by going back to their 2D roots and have some modern 3D graphics.
Another fault with this game is that they have lowered the numbers of pretty much everything. The number of weapons has dropped hugely and there is not a single new weapon in sight, the number of worms on a team has dropped to four from eight and the number of different challenges has dropped making it less of a game than the classics.
One thing that this game does right, which almost makes it worth buying, is the multiplayer, the single pack play is quick and it has all of the features you want. If your friends don’t have a ds, thanks to the turn based game play you can share one ds between 4 people.
Conclusion:
Graphics 40% there is nothing wrong with using 2D just use it properly.
Sound: 50% not the worst music in the world but their not exactly catchy tunes.
Controls: 65% the touch screen works well in game play, menus seems unresponsive, the control layout is decent.
Lasting appeal: 50% if you enjoy the game the multiplayer is good enough to make it stay in your ds a bit longer but chances are your not going to like the game.
Overall: 45%
How did they get it so wrong?
-Miles Ross
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