Everyone’s favourite invertebrates are back and making an appearance on N-Gage, blowing each other up and generally unleashing squiggly mayhem in Worms World Party.
This turn-by-turn strategy game gives you control over a team of vermicidal worms intent on destroying rival teams with a basket of wacky weapons, from straightforward bazookas and shotguns to air-strikes, cluster bombs and (naturally) exploding sheep.
The controls in Worms World Party are easy to learn but tricky to master, especially when you factor in ever-changing wind directions and a fully deformable landscape that soon collects craters from all the firepower being unleashed.
Basically, each worm takes its turn to slither and jump around, and then gets to fire a weapon. Some weapons have unlimited ammunition, others are in short supply – although there are plenty of power-ups to collect throughout a game. Instead of firing a weapon, each worm can use tools like pneumatic drills, ninja ropes and teleport devices.
Each game starts in a random landscape, although you can choose how many players and worms are competing, what kind of weapons they have, how strong they are and dozens of other factors. Together, this keeps the action fairly fresh and no two games are ever identical.
As you’d expect, the real fun with Worms World Party comes with multiplayer game, and it supports multiple players on one handset, via Bluetooth gaming or using the Nokia N-gage Arena online.
While Worms games on consoles have developed into smooth 3D strategy fests, Worms World Party is pretty much the same 2D game that debuted on the Amiga over a decade ago. That’s not a bad thing – it’s easy to pick up and maddeningly addictive – but anyone coming to the franchise fresh might find the graphics basic, the sound annoying and the gameplay somewhat repetitive. Not me, though. We just love to kill worms.
Details
Price: £8
Rating: 7+
Size: 8MB
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