[Multiplatform] Worms Open Warfare 2, battle online from the comfort of your toilet

Much better than dealing with a different sort of worm while on there. Yes, last years portable disaster has a sequel a comin'! This time they seem to be taking it seriously, it's online! The official site will update with leaderboards and all that. There's also a new 'race' mode, where you race others to the finish line using the ninja rope thing. A mode of Worms that isn't turn based? The world's gonna blow up. No really! Me and my mates used to break Worms down into a ninja rope/jerk pack frenzy. Doing that in real time would be pretty cool and explosive. Also eleven new weapons, but I can only seem to find bunker buster, electromagnet, boomerang and 'Buffalo of Lies' (what!) mentioned around the joint so far.

Single player has the standard Campaign mode, as well as Puzzle (where you have objectives like only killing certain worms or whatever) and a training room to test out just how bad you are are throwing grenades. Custom level creation is back and all those other sorts of fancy options. Not sure if you're able to take those custom levels online, but that'd be rad. The levels have full 3D backgrounds (did the first Open Warfare?), so air strikes will be carried out by exciting planes zooming on in from the background. Exciting I tell you!







DS version has exclusive touch screen mini-games. Because that's a very shocking and new thing for the DS! Nobody has ever included mini-games! Also this is coming to various mobile phones, I bet it'd be pretty fun trying to make out which worm is which on those thumbtack screens! Due out worldwide in July. Unless you live somewhere really funky where video games aren't popular, like Japan.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Oh shiiii, that lightning strike item sounds awesome! Hopefully it can also reach Worms that died underground to make matches extra annoying. =)

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Three hundred years later.

So I'm playing through the DS version, it's quite good! It feels like a Worms game, which is something to look for in a new Worms game I suppose. Like Picross, I'm finding the touch screen controls pretty useless, it's quicker and more accurate to do everything with the dpad. Graphics are okay, the worms don't get lost in the backgrounds (which now feature 3D planes or ships zooming around the joint), music ranges from catchy to barely existing. There's a heap of customization as per usual. Voices, skin colour, flags, tombstones, pizza topping blah blah blah. You can even design your own levels.

The CPU AI is decent, which surprised me. Usually they're thick as pig shit and end up throwing grenades in impossible places or try and jump massive gaps. But no! The Campaign mode seems to end with a 'boss' battle every five rounds, they can pretty tough bastards. Puzzle mode's pretty boring so far, I've had one 'puzzle' objective as 'kill the other worms!' Yeah, that's great guys.

The DS version has an exclusive collection of mini-games (I guess this is a law for developing DS games). Blast, Blow and Draw. 'Blow' involves launching your worm off a cliff, where he'll parachute his way around a maze. Simply blow on the microphone to keep him in the air, yeah, bloody exciting! The other two are fairly amusing, however. 'Blast' has you jabbing the stylus around the screen, causing explosions. So if you point to the left of your worm, an explosion will send him flying to the right. You have to guide him around more mazes using explosions. Need to get up a high ledge? Try and juggle the worm with explosions from below, and so on! 'Draw' starts off with your worm standing next to a massive amount of explosives, when you press GOGOGOGO, they'll send him somewhere magical. Before you send him to his doom though, you've gotta try and guess where he might land, and block those areas with new walls that you draw, or maybe place some ramps around that'll cause him to slide to victory. The goal is to get him into.. the goal, but there are traps all over. He might land in a hole before the goal, and you're stuffed. Or a fan might blow him the other way, into the water. Draw a wall in front of the fan before you start, for example.

Oh and almost everything you do results in credits. You spend them in the shop to buy new music, skin colour (how racist let's write a letter), level themes for use in Quick Play mode, whole new missions and and and. I haven't put much into online, but it's been shitty in both games I've played. It supports four players, but I've had massive lag, crashing and other abnormalities. Anyway, my friend code is 159024718642. But aside from that, I'm impressive with Open Warfare 2!



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