Live Arcade Wednesday 3/07/07: Worms
Another Wednesday, another Live Arcade title (or, maybe it’s every other Wednesday now?) This week, Team17 Software brings Worms to the Xbox 360 in full 1080i HD. With up to 4-player versus multiplayer over Xbox Live, look for it to be a very popular title on Xbox Live.
Worms was originally developed back in 1994 by Andy Davidson for a programming competition. After losing the competition, Davidson pitched his game to numerous companies before Team 17 agreed to develop and publish the title. Finally, Worms was born on the Commodore Amiga and has expanded with numerous 2D and 3D versions since then.
I’ve never spent a whole lot of time playing Worms in the past but I’m definitely going to give this one a spin today and see how it feels. Of course, full specs inside from Xbox.com and feel free to toss me your personal impressions.
Official Release info: Worms is a cleverly balanced turn-based strategy game in which teams of worms battle across bizarre randomly generated landscapes for supremacy. Each team takes its turn to pick off the opposing teams using crazy weapons, tools, and other utilities, as well as whatever foul strategies they can devise.
Worms die when they lose all of their energy or plunge into the water. The winning team is the one that manages to survive the mayhem and have worms left standing when the dust settles. Sound simple? Easy to play but difficult to master, it’s a game of deep strategy that belies its simple appearance.
• Strategy and action: The game is a cleverly balanced mix of strategy and arcade action that is not only simple and easy to understand but contains real depth and massive replay-ability.
• Multiplayer modes: Play offline turn-based play for up to four players, or go online for turn-based play for up to four players over Xbox Live®.
• Game options: An assortment of game options abound, from the landscape on which to battle on, to turn time, round time, and the starting weapon arsenal of each team.
‚Ä¢ Tutorials: Three detailed tutorials are included to introduce the mechanics to those who haven’t played the game before.
• Variety of challenges: With 20 increasingly difficult single player challenges and three graphical themes on which to play, a random landscape generator means no two landscapes generated are ever the same.
• Weapon selection: Choose from 22 weapons and utilities to deploy against your enemies.
• Customization: Make the game your own, from worm and team names, to what they say and the gravestone they leave behind when they die.
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I played the 3D one extensivley on PC. I liked it a lot, just thought they could have sped up the pace a bit. Waiting for the computer to make moves always drove me crazy.
I loved the scenarios they threw at you in that game.