Worms: Ultimate Mayhem still has destructible environments, as the levels are created with something Team17 termed “poxels” – essentially a hybrid of polygons and voxels which allow the environments to be deformed in the same manner as the two dimensional games. It’s something I had to check out, and you’ll find that it does well to ease you in and make you feel more adept at handling everything in a 3D environment, though no longer being on a 2D plane does change the game more than you’d think. Jumping into worm-related carnage in the third dimension is something some players may not be familiar with, and to help alleviate any potential issues the game opens with a narrator and a film encouraging you to check out the tutorials and visit the options menu to customise some worms. Your worms are now silhouetted when behind objects, there’s a picture in picture view showing the path of your projectiles, Binoculars and aim assists now exist to help slowly accustom players to the new dimension, and there’s now a narrator who introduces the story missions and challenges from Worms 4: Mayhem. Rather than call it a day at that though, Team17 dove back in and fixed several problems that plagued the originals to bring a more refined experience. My first exposure to Worms came in the form of the World Party entry on the PSOne – a game which has still routinely been fired up by my friends and me over the years when in need of a pick up and play party game.Īvailable for the PC, PSN and XBLA, Worms Ultimate Mayhem isn’t strictly a new title rather, it’s a ‘best of’ compilation of Worms 3D and Worms 4, packaged into a single download.
Weirder still, it ended up becoming one of the best known and most loved turn based strategy franchises around.
You know what’s weird? One day, a guy called Andy Davidson decided that he was going to make a game about some small pink worms who’d kill each other with Bazookas, explosive sheep, old ladies and grenades straight out of Monty Python films.
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