The new weapons being added to the game are highly interesting as well. Super Sheep, explosive livestock which can be manually flown into targets are returning too, along with the Concrete Donkey and the apocalyptic Armageddon attack that rains meteors across the field of battle. The devastating Holy Hand Grenade is now back, complete with its “hallelhujah” chorus. Original weapons from the game which were absent from the first XBLA Worms will be making a re-appearance as well. Great pains have been taken on the part of Team 17 to recreate the experience of playing this classic entry, even going so far as to create testing levels for the sole purpose of exactly replicating the physics.
It is this version of the game which is the inspiration for Worms 2: Armageddon, coming to XBLA in the very near future. Of all the titles in the franchise, the most popular and enduring among fans is Worms: Armageddon. It’s a little staggering to think that a game which has existed with fairly minimal gameplay changes over the course of more than a decade continues to remain so popular but it proves that a winning formula can be timeless. Team 17 claims that, in 2007, there were more sessions of Worms played than any other game on the service and sales kept it consistently in the top ten for almost every week of that year. Worms is, apparently, incredibly popular on Xbox Live Arcade. Read on to see how they’ve managed to both faithfully recreate a beloved game while adding enough compelling ideas to make it all continue to feel fresh all these years later. I sat down with Team 17 at GDC to see all the new weapons and environments, only to discover that the biggest change to Worms is a return to some truly classic gameplay. That’s why I was so excited to have the opportunity to preview the latest game in the series. So, yeah, Worms holds a special place in my heart. Similarly, I have played just about every iteration since.
Many a night that should have been spent studying for my college classes was frittered away with my dorm roommate in epic duels of Worms 2.
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I have a long and happy history with the Worms series of games.
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