Posts with tag Worms
DS Fanboy presents: Game Night 11/8/07
DS Fanboy presents: Game Night 11/1/07 aftermath
DS Fanboy presents: Game Night 11/1/07
Promotional Consideration: The Ads of War
War is a terrible thing -- a malignant disease, as novelist Martha Gellhorn once put it -- but in our boyhood years, we reveled in anything that approximated the battles and bloodshed. When we weren't drafting our G.I. Joes into military service, we were conducting mock battles with our friends (pew pew) or drawing preposterous weapons with a wide array of arbitrary lasers, scopes, and barrels.
This week's edition of Promotional Consideration takes a look at several playful commercials for three war-themed Nintendo DS games. Though war can be hell, you wouldn't know it from how these titles are advertised! Grab your rifle and report for duty past the post break.
Metareview: Worms: Open Warfare 2
Of course, as more reviews roll in, all of that could change -- but for now, things are looking good for the wiggly warriors.
IGN -- 87%: "Worms: Open Warfare 2 is a massive upgrade to the original game, so much so that it really should have been its own brand instead of "Number Two" of the 2005 release. Awesome single player campaigns, fantastic multiplayer support, and some unexpected treats specific to the unique features of the handheld. It absolutely trounces the first game in every category and finally gives the Nintendo DS the true Worms experience."
1UP -- 90%: "The first Open Warfare squashed the prolific series' typically sharp and colorful visuals into a fuzzy mess, and offered essentially one mode (skirmish). Open Warfare 2 simply blows it away with the first truly engaging Worms single-player campaign, an absolute bounty of customization options, the deep multiplayer we've come to expect from the series (with Wi-Fi this time), and even some entertaining DS-specific minigames. This is truly a Worms to be excited about, with portability that plays to the strengths of the series."
Worms: Open Warfare 2 gets the preview treatment
Over at IGN, they got their hands on an early build of Team 17's upcoming sequel to the horribly-received Worms: Open Warfare. With Worms: Open Warfare 2, the developer is set to make right the mistakes of the first title, confirming that Wi-Fi gameplay will be included this time around (get ready for Game Night, you silly little worms) and changing the core team out that worked on the original for Two Tribes. IGN confirms that just about everything has been improved; graphics are better, gameplay is more smooth (including the ninja rope) and the sound is way more crisp.
What's most interesting, though, is the new "Laboratory" game type, which charges players with navigating a worm from one edge of the map to the other using a variety of the DS's unique features (blowing into the microphone etc.).
See also: Worms: Open Warfare 2 trailer hits the internet trenches
Worms: Open Warfare 2 trailer hits the internet trenches
When we revealed yesterday that a sequel to Worms: Open Warfare would be gracing the DS, complete with Wi-Fi Connect compatible multiplayer, we didn't realize that there was a trailer somewhere out there on the internet. After navigating the vast sea of tubes that comprises said intertron, we finally found our destination. We hastily caught the massive trailer in our nets and wrestled it on board. Now that the chefs had time to prepare it, it's ready for you past the post break.
[Via Gaming Bits]
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Worms 2 set to grace the DS, WILL feature online play
THQ announced that a sequel to Worms: Open Warfare will grace the DS in the form of Worms: Open Warfare 2. The sequel is set to relieve fans of the franchise of their worries about the last game, this time adding full-on Wi-Fi Connect compatibility for some sure to be fun multiplayer match-ups. The online component will support leaderboards and user-generated content such as custom maps, hats and even dances.THQ also reveals that the game will feature a host of new gameplay modes, as well as 11 new weapons, which include some returning franchise favorites such as the Super Sheep, Concrete Donkey and Holy Hand Grenades. New game modes will include Rope Race, Puzzle and the requisite Campaign mode.
Sadly, we have no word on a release date as of right now.
Worms: Open Warfare interview
IGN recently conducted a nice Q & A session with Team 17, the studio behind those little gun-toting worms. Since the game is due to hit your local retailer any day now, they aimed to get some final tidbits of information out of them before getting their hands on a final copy and slapping up a review.
Team 17 goes on to say that they indeed did have plans to take the game online via Nintendo's WiFi service, yet the development time did not allow for it. They do, however, confirm that they've already begun work on another Worms title, so let's hope they've decided that it will utilize the service.
New Worms Open Warfare Screens
After discussing just how gross worms are earlier today, we have to admit that we've been somewhat swayed by these new screenshots of Worms Open Warfare, the vertebrae-less crew's portable outing coming soon on the DS and PSP. As you can see, the backgrounds are 3D, but the destructible foregrounds are slightly lesser-D. After the so-so reception the 3D incarnation of the series received and the DS' less than stellar proficiency at churning out polygons, this approach is definitely the way to go.[Thanks neil!]
Worms wage war on DS
Worms are gross. They wriggle in unnatural ways, crawl around in your intestinal tract and in some cases, burst forth from gigantic sand dunes and devour your Fremen troops. I may be confusing my fictional and non-fictional worms here, but the fact of the matter is that worms are one of the lesser adored creepy creatures on the planet, slotting in somewhere between tarantulas and Anne Heche. With that in mind, it's rather miraculous that developer Team 17 have made such a success out of their hilarious strategic combat series, Worms.Now under the THQ umbrella, Worms Open Warfare is set to debut on both the DS and PSP, continuing the long-running franchise's wacky traditions that mainly revolve around squeaky smacktalking and exploding sheep. The graphics promise to go with a "2.5D" approach, only rendering the backgrounds in 3D whilst constricting movement to the 2D plane. The DS version will happily support multiplayer combat (which is what the games have always trumpeted) with up to 4 players playing from a single cart...or pak, if we must to use that word. No information on online Wi-Fi capabilities yet, but we'd be very angry indeed if such an opportunity was wasted.
