Worms is a game that is often overlooked in gaming retrospectives which is odd as almost everyone I know adores this game in its original form. The 3D version that came out later, while still fun, may be responsible for this drop in the series status as an all time classic.
The game works at its best when you take the time to design your own team, naming your worms after your favourite movie characters, sports heroes or even yourself and your friends. This simple exercise really helps you to identify with your worms and as you progress from game to game some of them really start to endear themselves to you.
Worms is a game that is often overlooked in gaming retrospectives which is odd as almost everyone I know adores this game in its original form. The 3D version that came out later, while still fun, may be responsible for this drop in the series status as an all time classic.
The game works at its best when you take the time to design your own team, naming your worms after your favourite movie characters, sports heroes or even yourself and your friends. This simple exercise really helps you to identify with your worms and as you progress from game to game some of them really start to endear themselves to you. You begin to make irrational decisions that weaken your army’s strength just so you can protect your favourite
worm!
Graphically this reminds me of another classic, Lemmings although these worms have more individual personality and you care far more when one of them bites the big one.
The sounds are effective too. Worms with different accents, cries of banzai as you send them on a (heartbreaking) suicide run, and giggles as you perform a fiendish missile strike all help to involve you in the strangely bloodthirsty antics of these insane invertebrates.
You can decide yourself how much strategy to employ. I myself love distracting my opponents by leading one of my worms on a more obvious offensive while letting another member of my team plough a less transparent path. Trouble is if one of your enemies takes an irrational dislike to one of your worms almost no amount of clever thinking can be enough to save them. They will be killed. Your challenge is to use their obsession against them.
For best play get a bunch of mates together, crack open a few beers and have all out war with four teams playing at once. Nothing I have played in gaming since has equalled worms for sheer pleasure. Get this game and restore it to its rightful position as an all time classic.
