During our play tests we didn't encounter any of the bugginess of the first game. You can either join a random quick match or design your own battle by selecting from a variety of game modes like Deathmatch, Forts, and Race. Up to four players can participate in multiplayer games both locally and online, and each player can customize their team of four worms.

Completing stages provides you with cash you can use to buy new weapons and costumes. The single-player game here is more robust than in the first Worms. Interspersed within all the deathmatches are puzzle levels that require a bit of thinking to get through - some of which provide quite a challenge. Before you venture online you may want to work through the lengthy single-player campaign, which is made up of 35 missions. The tutorial doesn't explain how everything works, so there is some trial and error during your early play sessions. The shotgun can be fired twice during a turn. How long you hold down the fire button determines how far you throw grenades. Some projectiles like the bazooka are affected by the wind. Each weapon has its own behavior that needs to be learned. These+Worms+use+air+strikes+to+dig+in+the+dirt. Environments are destructible, adding another layer of strategy to the mix. The array of crazy weapons and gadgets is the real draw here. In order to vanquish the enemy worms you can use anything from a bazooka to an Uzi to a baseball bat to a petrol bomb to a sentry gun to a sheep to dynamite. During a turn, a worm can slither left and right, jump, and use one item, and they are usually under a time limit. The titular night crawlers are bursting with personality and players can customize their team's appearance and sound (there are many dialects to choose from). On a 2D battlefield, teams of worms take turns using a wide variety of weapons and tools (many of which are bizarre) in order to eliminate the enemy. Get a few friends together and this is some of the wackiest fun you can have, locally or online.Įven though this is a turn-based strategy game, it bears little in common with other standouts from the genre like Final Fantasy Tactics. Now Worms 2 is here and it fixes these issues and brings some flashy improvements, too, making it a fantastic arcade strategy game. Xbox Live Arcade got a version of Worms back in 2007 that got the job done even though it forgot to include some of the most popular weapons and the online mode was a little buggy. The Worms franchise has been digging a special place in our hearts for 14 years now, and the turn-based strategy game is still a lot of fun.

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