In worms you probably collect the biggest array of weapons you will see in your life and get to choose – ranging from bazookas and grenades where you plan the shooting angle, the explosion timer and bouncing capability to Armageddon where you pretty much blow up everything on the screen with a touch of the button. The game also includes the infamous concrete donkey – nothing escapes its vengeance – and the scientist weapon which drowns everyone for a comeback from a losing game to a tie in just one crate’s worth of energy. There are firearms, ninja ropes, drills, sheep and cows each with their own wacky powers. Moreover you get to collect extra rare weapons on the battlefield in crates and extra powers such as fast walk or see through crates in blue boxes. Finally there are even other crates with more rarity such as the blue wooden crate that makes you invisible!

So worms has a lot of weapons but what beyond that? How is it played? You control a fleet of worms and different turns for each worm where you choose a weapon to use – your goal is to kill all your opponent’s worms before he does the same to you.

There are training missions to help you get the game basics and hone your skills and mastery of the weaponry as well as to help you find strategies to help you in real games against your friends. You also get missions and the more you succeed the more multiplayer maps you unlock to use during your own single player matches to get a hang on things and create your own strategies for each different terrain! The terrains themselves are a lot of fun ranging from islands to ship-wrecked boats to fortresses and of course – jails – all at your possession to put your opponent in a position he deserves to be in. You get to name your worms, select a unique signature weapon for your worms team such as a homing pigeon or the deadly granny. The game also offers different field characteristics such as mine explosion sensitivity and speed or the power of health crates that drop down on you. You also get to customize your mode – so you can have a double damage mode or a beginner mode where everything is as you’d expect it to be till you get more experienced.

Worms also has a very playable graphics based on bubbles and circles and funny pictures that relates to the inner child in you. The animations are also interesting and funny as well. With funny animations such as explosions or worms flying through the air the game gives a touch of reality and credibility with very close to reality animations and reactions – the physics of it is perfect. The sound in the game is very interesting with nice quotes your worms call out and funny voices that you choose – whether it ranges from alien voices to voices with cultural accents or even robotic voices. So what happens when your worm dies? Well it has its own grave and you get to choose your own tombstone – whatever shape you want it to be from a preselected range of gravestones. There are also online features – featuring head to head real-time turn-based online play against some of the best and world’s most experienced worms players to even set foot on planet worms over the n-gage arena.

Worms gets you to think of tactics – whether to use girders to trap your opponent; to kill off one of your own worms so you have a speed advantage or to kill your opponent to have a number advantage. Other tactics could range from shooting your opponent into a lake – worms can’t swim sadly – or even forcing your opponent to waste his weapons. In worms you control the weapons; the tactics; the map; the effects; the worms and the game! With great sound effects and playable enjoyable graphics – this is a game not to miss on a great console as the n-gage.

Worms World Party
Platform: N-Gage
Publisher: THQ Wireless
Developer: Paragon 5
Released: 2005

When I was told to write a review of this game, I thought it would just be another poorly done clone of the original PC games, with a whopping arsenal of two different weapons and three landscapes to choose from. Well, I was correct to some extent. The "clone" part was right.
        For those who have played the PC version of Worms World Party, now is when you should get excited. It's almost exactly the same, with only a few differences, for example a slightly smaller arsenal (the longbow, suicide bomb and the fire weapons are gone), a limited number of teams (10, which should still be enough for all except those who often play with big groups of friends), only 13 speech sets and dumber A.I. The fire weapons I can understand, a huge amount of napalm on the landscape even takes up a lot of processor power on the PC, I don't even want to imagine what this would to to the N-Gage.
        For new players, this is where you should get excited, if you already haven't. In Worms World Party you control a team of up to 8 worms, and your only objectives are to kill and to refrain from getting killed. Gameplay is turn-based, and every turn there's a possibility that a health or weapon crate will come floating down your way. Of course, your time isn't unlimited: if you waste too much time chasing those crates or digging yourself to safety, you'd better be prepared for sudden death mode. Rising water, poisoned worms, all the works. Of course, this option can always be turned off for those who like a slow-paced, leisurely game.
        At your disposal you have a humongous variety of over 50 weapons and utilities, ranging from the classical bazooka and grenade to the Super Banana Bomb and Holy Hand Grenade, with everything including exploding sheep, the Indian Nuclear Test, old women and jet packs in between. If you're lucky, you might even get hold of the legendary Concrete Donkey which is guaranteed to wet each of your opponents' pants.
        The whacky multiplayer fun has always been what makes Worms so popular, and it hasn't been forgotten on this version either. You can play with up to three friends by either hot-seat (yes, that means four players on just one N-Gage!), Bluetooth, or even go online on the N-Gage Arena, where you'll almost definitely always find someone to play with.
        For those who don't have any friends to play with and are fed up with easy victories over the computer player, behold! WWP gives you loads of single-player fun with its 19 training levels covering all of the most important weapons and tactics in the game (try to beat your high score and then beat it again), and loads of incredibly challenging single-player missions, some taking dozens of tries before you pass them! And as if the missions alone weren't fun enough to play, completing them awards you with unlockable maps! Now is that cool or what?
        The graphics are stunning. Remember, we're still talking about a mobile phone here. There's almost no noticable change to the computer version, apart from the (obviously) much smaller screen and minimally reduced pixels. The levels are cheerful and colorful, unless you're fighting in hell (yes, that's also an option for you over-sadistic monsters who aren't content with killing your opponent once). You can select from a wide variety of landscape styles; you can fight on the Manhattan, on turf made of cheese, on a sports stadium or even on the Easter Islands! And if you're not happy with the randomly created landscapes, there's many pre-drawn ones that are sure to amuse you.
        Apart from the graphics, what really builds the game's atmosphere is the sounds. The background soundtracks will definitely get you in the right mood, and you just never get bored of them! You can make your worms speak in many different styles, try rasta, scotsman or sports reporter for kicks. There are different sounds for every occasion in the game: running out of time, surrendering, accidentally shooting an ally, jumping... And don't get surprised with the sudden scream when you're just about to get blown up.
        Worms World Party is clearly the best choice in N-Gage games. It's a near-perfect game, which always offers you something to do! This should be everybody's number one priority.

93%

Openoffice Writer says 745 words

The improvements included in the graphic engine of the 2005 version are substantial if you compare the game with last year's. It has improved more than the appearance of the players this time are much more polished and do not appear as a mass of pictures last year. Its size has been increased slightly so that they are more proportionate to the size of the stadiums, their edges refined and animations, but not noted for its quantity, have been improved.

The quality of repetition, we can continue from different points of view (compared with a single camera in FIFA 2004) and moving the camera around the game thanks to the good work done in the graphics engine. We can repeat the last 10 seconds of the match pressing the button 9, there will be repetitions automatic after each goal and at the end of each game, a kind of abstract. The goals scored and recorded, we can send them to any friend of the N-Gage Arena and even download them from our computer.

Music

The inclusion of a soundtrack extensive and contrasting quality is a very detail to be taken into account, since it is not something usual in the N-Gage titles. Both quality for quantity, the soundtrack of FIFA Football 2005 is the best of this console. Songs like Clorofila, Paul Oakenfold, Future Funk Squad, Australians Inxs, classic electronics as New Order ...

Although the quality sampling is not very high, even using headphones, the music section is well covered. As for the sound effects, scratches also to a large extent with the digitization of all sounds of the field

Gameplay

Team allows us to choose between the major European leagues (and other secondary): First and Second Division Spanish Premier League, First, Second and Third Division English, Portuguese League, Serie A and B Italian League Dutch,  First Division Mexican, Bundesliga in its two divisions and many other minor leagues as the Austrian, Danish, Finnish, Scottish ... We can challenge a Copa America club, a FIFA international (which is like a World Cup), Cup competitions in various countries (including the Copa del Rey)

Conclusions

This 2005 edition is virtually the same as the previous year. It has improved graphics, increased the amount of songs, multiplied the number of game modes ... But basically, the game is the same. You can repeat the same techniques and routines that you used in the 2004 version, find the same holes in the defense, find the same level in the artificial intelligence of the opponents ... It is as if FIFA 2004 has received a good face washing which has left more beautiful on the outside, but hides in the background as well.

This does not mean that the game is not fun, because it is. The large number of game modes including the FIFA license that allows names of real players and teams, including the challenges, their spirit arcade, its dizzying gameplay, enhanced multiplayer options ... Make up a title and verging attractive to a good standard

hey!! my review is about System Rush... sorry for lang

Message Edited by uuliisees on 2007-10-24 10:13 PM