For some inexplicable reason, she once became helplessly enchanted with Toe Jam And Earl on the Megadrive, and would force me to play it with her, from start to finish, for days on end, wailing like a wounded dog whenever I tried to get up and go for a piss or something.
Until Worms Armageddon turned up, that is. Getting this review written has proven difficult because she just won't stop playing the damn thing. I've had to wait till she's asleep, and if I type too loud she'll probably get up and demand another go.
It's like living with a drug addict or something. If you're not familiar with the Worms phenomenon, it's a deceptively simple game in which two or more teams of cute cartoon maggots fire weapons at each other in an attempt to wipe out the opposing team. It's turn-based; that is, first you take a shot at one of your girlfriend's worms, then one of hers takes a shot at one of yours. You can't move or shoot back during the other player's go, and this is one of the things that makes the game so tense and compelling.
The other is the unpredictable nature of the armoury you're given: bazooka shells which get buffeted by the wind, grenades which ricochet in unforeseen ways, and downright ridiculous weapons such as exploding old ladies and flying sheep.
Murphy's Law comes to the fore time and time again during a round of Worms, with a fair proportion of the fatalities occurring by accident hey - just like a real war. To a sniffy ponce it might look like a 'little game', but it's a damn sight more impressive than most of the blockbusters out there.
In fact it's hard to convey just how intrinsically satisfying it is to play - it's as moreish as popping your way through a huge sheet of bubble wrap. Successfully scoring a direct hit at long range delivers a short jolt of pleasure on a par with that which accompanies a really good punchline. Playing against an eager companion, you'll find you just don't want to stop, and if they aren't around there's always single-player missions, CPU opponents or the Internet.
You can say goodbye to your social life, basically. What else? Well, if you've already got Worms 2 you might want to 'try before you buy'.
The addition of WormNet the online play system is a big plus, but otherwise many of the changes in Worms Armageddon are cosmetic it does look a lot nicer, mind. If you've never played a Worms game before, or you've only tried the first one, you don't have anything to lose. And before we go, a quick note about Worms Armageddorts superb visuals: this is one of the coolest looking games ever.
The design is ingenious, the animation dazzling. The worms are fantastic - full of character and humour - and should really be starring in their own TV cartoon series. Team 17's graphics department deserve a gigantic sack of awards. Actually, make that two sacks.
Each one twice the size of Mount Kilimanjaro. One of the many things the game enables you to tinker with is the landscape itself - you can ask the computer to randomly generate one to your specifications, or pick up your mouse and design it yourself.
If you're poncy enough to have a graphics tablet, so much the better; you can draw a forest of great big penlses and then laugh yourself III as the worms hop all over them. If you're that childish, that is. Worms Armageddon enables you to customise your team In all kinds of inconsequential but amusing ways.
You can choose a name for each worm, for example, leading to endless hilarity as Posh Spice lobs a grenade at Dale Winton and Big Balls unloads a shotgun into Wet Arse's face. The worms natter continually throughout each round, and their standard chirpy English voices can be replaced by different languages and dialects. There are cockney wide boys, grim Yorkshlremen, US sports commentators, worms who speak in German, Dutch, French, and so on.
Fair enough. But a few of the speech banks on offer left us feeling a little uncomfortable. There's a Rasta who wails "Big mama! There's a Japanese worm who screams "Gienadel", a homosexual worm who simpers about handbags and mascara, and an Indian who speaks in fractured grammar, burbling "Goodness gracious me" and "Poppadom!
Close your eyes and whoosh: It's , and you're listening to one of those jaw-dropping sitcoms which dealt with the sensitive issue of racial intolerance by placing a white man In the leading role and reducing everyone else to the level of guming half-wit stereotype. Still, in the knowing '90s, can't we just look on this as a bit of cheeky non-politically correct fun? But since the game is also designed to be played across the Internet, against people of all nations, it'd be interesting to see just how rib-tickling or otherwise the rest of the world finds it.
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Superweapons are often based on cartoon-like themes such as the French Sheep Strike and are usually devastating in power. Local multiplayer allows the player to select which teams participate in the battle including number of Worms and handicaps , which options and weapons are used, and the level to be played upon.
The matches can use any combination of human and computer teams, provided at least one team is human. Additionally, multiple Worm teams can form an alliance for the match by selecting the same team color — they will still operate separately in movement rotation but share weapons and score. If multiple human players are using the same computer, the game functions in a hot-seat mode. Worms Armageddon includes a series of training missions, a single-player campaign with premade missions, a deathmatch mode in which the player fights increasingly difficult and outnumbered battles against the computer, local multiplayer, and online multiplayer.
Local multiplayer allows the player to select which teams participate in the battle as well as the number of worms and handicaps, which options and weapons are used, and the level to be played on. Additionally, multiple worm teams can form an alliance for the match by selecting the same team color — they will still operate separately in movement rotation but share weapons and score.
If multiple human players are using the same computer, the game functions in a hotseat mode. Online multiplayer is set up similarly to local multiplayer but allows the players to be at separate computers. Additionally, hotseat can be combined with online play, so multiple human players can use each computer. Worms Armageddon features a multiplayer Internet service called WormNet.
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