At the end of the day, however, it’s a cheap, cheerful affair that you shouldn’t expect too much of.Making Worms a real-time affair seems sacrilegious, but I was genuinely quite excited to play a game of Worms where I had no idea what was going to happen.
It’s cute and contains the same sort of charm as regular Worms does, and children will get a buzz out of the squeaky sounds and colourful graphics.Īlso, if you treat it as more of a puzzle game, with individual challenges to get past rather than think of it as a golf game, the slow pace does seem more acceptable. Hit the granny with the ball and she might bat it away with her stick, earning you an achievementīut if you can get over the slow pace, and don’t spend too long on it, you’ll get your six quids-worth out of this. Although, having said that, the prospect of waiting for unnamed individuals to take ages over their shots isn’t perhaps the most fun thing you could do of a Saturday night. Hotseat multiplayer livens things up again, but it’s quite a slow experience and it’s strange how there’s no online multiplayer at all as well. It’s the only way to enjoy it properly, because if you, say, play it for a hours at a time for review purposes, you’ll end up getting more bored than you should be. Keep the love alive, people, let absence make the heart grow fonder and so on.ĭip in, enjoy it in bite sized portions, move on. Do so and you’ll burn out and rarely, if ever, return.
What lets this down most is that it gets very repetitive very quickly, and such is best not played for extended periods of time. To help you, you can unlock or purchase special items, like rocket boosters, for your ball, which can make the difference between clearing an obstacle or clipping the top and ending up right back where you started.Įach course theme brings its own unique hazards, like these pumpkinsĮach course - of which there are three in the vanilla package and one free bit of DLC - is themed like the levels were in the main Worms series, so you’ve got a ‘regular’ green course with sand bunkers, a ‘pirate’ one with gold forming the ‘sand’ and a ‘scary’ one with unearthly creatures attempting to prevent you from making par.Īll of this is wrapped in a very neat, very Worms-y graphical package, and it’s perhaps a bit much to say the visuals were the most impressive thing about the game, but they’re certainly very crisp and easy on the eye. There’s also a level that puts the pin back and asks you to chip it onto the green from various different places on the map.Īs you chip away (chortle) at the levels, unlocking them one by one by hitting par or below, you’ll notice that they start getting ‘wackier’ as you progress, until you’ll be hitting the balls into cannons or smacking it off the heads of bats just to get near the pin. The other is to go for skill shots and collect the liberally scattered coins on each level, plus the occasional crate too.Īfter every four or so holes, a special ‘challenge’ level is presented, in which the pin is (generally) removed and you have to hit targets within a certain time limit. There are a couple of ways to play this, the first being a straightforward putt-’em-up where you just aim to get par or below in order to unlock the next hole on the course. No, instead you’ve got to merely follow the rules of golf, knocking your balls into a succession of holes in typically outlandish situations. The main question about a golf game involving everyone’s favourite annelids must run thus: where do they hold the clubs? Of course, this question could also be asked of the massive arsenal of weapons they lug about in the main series, which is alluded to in a few ways in this spin-off.īut your goal in this isn’t the destruction of other pink squiggly things, even though you can indeed send some to their early graves.
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