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If I can talk my fellows into making the purchase, I'm sure Worms: Reloaded will be a welcome addition to our future LAN parties. Then again, that was my complaint in the single player as well.

If there is a disappointing aspect in the multiplayer, it's that the game types are limited to four-player deathmatches.

The sudden death waters slowly rose and I watched every other worm drown from my sniper's perch. Then, as the game timer ran low and sudden death began, I took my last worm and hid him as high on the map as possible. It was impossible not to laugh at our contrasting skill levels. As the game progressed I consistently killed my own worms while my friend took on the majority of the enemy's forces. The struggles of mastering each weapon, and seeing that you aren't the only one with troubles, gives Worms: Reloaded's multiplayer a ton of charm.Ĭertainly, the basic gameplay hasn't changed Worms is still slow, touchy and punishing, but the ability to share your woes or laugh off each error with other human players makes the pacing feel instantly faster.įor example, I joined a two team match with a friend of mine, and joined him on voice chat so we could create a battle plan. There's nothing more enjoyable than seeing another poor Worms player make a mis-jump and launch themselves into the ocean, drowning instantly. By that I mean, I stopped getting angry at myself for dropping grenades at my own feet, or when opposing players would perform miracle ninja rope swings and drop dynamite on my face. It prepared me for the experience of multiplayer in Worms: Reloaded. It was only a few weeks ago when I played a few rounds of Worms: Armageddon with some friends during a small LAN party. Luckily, there's the other side of Worms: Reloaded that's much more entertaining, the multiplayer. I literally spent more time customizing my team and HUD than I did enjoying Worms' single player modes. I was able to choose their little hats (classy top hats), their names (gaming buddies), their gravestones (angel worms), and their ridiculous voice files (元3T, OMG EPICZ). My favorite part of Worms, up until I was able to play multiplayer, was designing my own four-worm team. Luckily there is another aspect of Worms that's much more enjoyable and you can do all on your own: customization. Each new match feels like it will never end, a veritable black hole of fun. The combat, at its base level, is enjoyable of course, but you're still just killing simple AI controlled worms over, and over, and over. After making headway into the main campaign and then making an effort to try the other modes, I'd had enough. I want to say that each mode's small differences were enough to keep me intrigued and asking for more, but that is a lie. So beyond the Training mode and a scant few Campaign missions that require you to jump, rope and jetpack across the map, you have an incredible selection of deathmatches to play. You've got your standard 30 mission campaign, your custom matches, a survival style Body Count mode and Warzone, which is a deathmatch campaign. If anything, Worms: Reloaded does a great job of turning the same bland combat into a variety of bland game modes.

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Combat in Worms boils down to a series of turns, where on each turn you have the opportunity of moving your Worm around the map, selecting something appropriate from a wide variety of weapons, and firing a single time (twice with a shotgun). Let's start with the bottom of the barrel: the single player.

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Read on for my full review, where I break down the positives and negatives of the latest 2D Worms offering from Team17.

Worms: Reloaded is a game that's both terrible and incredible in the same breadth.

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