The Chili Con Carnage weapon and the napalm-dropping giant are definitely close seconds. My favorite weapon has to be the catapult-launched Exploding Refrigerator that scatters frozen ferrets that explode near the area of impact. For me, the creation of forts hardly makes up for the lack of destructible terrain, one of the series key features until the switch to 3D rendered it impractical.Īs always, the series derives much of its humor and personality through its weapons. This mechanics means that building structures in a straight line is pretty foolish. One interesting aspect to the design is that if you take out a building, it also destroys any buildings that used the destroyed building to connect to your keep. You wind up playing a much more conservative game, hoping to win battles by attrition rather than a mad dash. While I dig the idea of creating the buildings, it tends to de-emphasize the attacks in the game. Each of your buildings must be attached to your initial starting building through a series of walls which are automatically built when you place your buildings. The hospital allows you to respawn dead worms while the science building lets your weapons do increased damage. Additional buildings give you even more options. These towers and forts offer up new weapons and serve as platforms to launch attacks. Your worms will now have to build forts and towers on the map.
In adding the forts to Worms, Team17 has introduced a base-building model that borrows from more traditional real-time strategy games. Having this real time element keeps you on the ball certainly but it makes Worms Forts more of an action game than a strategy game. These include moving around, building structures and firing weapons. Each worm on your side (you can have up to four) has one minute in which to take his actions for the turn. The turn-based nature of the game has been wedded to a real-time clock.
Worse still, some of the problems that 3D graphics caused are still here. Unfortunately, the new additions detract from the basic appeal of the Worms design.
A new title that only refined the core principles and smoothed out some of the problems from the jump to 3D would hardly be a must-buy for Worms fans. It makes sense that Team17 decided to revolutionize the gameplay yet again. After the last game's jump to 3D, Team17 is back with another innovation for the series - base building. For years now they've brought us joy in the form of those combative little belly-crawlers, the Worms.
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