With the addition of HD visuals, gameplay enhancements and new extra content, it is the ultimate 3D "Worms" collection!Ī vast array of single-player content spanning the very best of the 3D "Worms™" games, ranging from shooting challenges to speed runs, whilst a collection of crazy missions, interspersed with newly fully voiced narrative FMV sequences, make up the single-player campaign. Battle and puzzle your way through all of the missions from both "Worms 3D" and "Worms 4: Mayhem" - it’s essentially two games in one. With over 70 single-player missions and challenges, online and local multi-player for up to 4 players, 5 multi-player modes, Steam Achievements, unprecedented customization of both worms and weapons, and fully destructible environments, it’s bursting with anarchic mayhem. *The final review score is awarded based on the main review, Second Opinion comments do not influence it.Worms: Ultimate Mayhem is the definitive 3D "Worms" game! Load your weapons and experience a whole new dimension in destructive turn-based cartoon action! Taking the game into 3D creates all-new strategic and gameplay possibilities. Ultimate Mayhem does nothing to diminish that proven appeal. At the end of the day you could do a lot worse on a day in than playing a few games of Worms with friends. The price alone makes it a decent purchase for anyone with a soft spot for the series. I agree with Peter that the 3D approach is not the optimum way to play Worms, but the core gameplay remains intact and remains fun. Second Opinion: John Robertson: The formula may have changed little over the years, but there’s a reason for that – it doesn’t need changing. Yet when its presence adds camera issues, reduces the power of weaponry to destroy scenery and elevates water-deaths to an art form, it’s only reasonable to conclude that it is a failed experiment. Implemented differently, perhaps 3D could have worked. It’s a cruel irony that the one major change made to the Worms formula over the years only serves to erode the fun of the original incarnation. The ponderous nature of Worms:UM is resolutely stuck in an era where multiplayer gaming was restricted to takey-turney hotseating, and long pauses between actions were a necessity rather than a bore. Turn-based, real-time hybrids can definitely still work (look no further than the amazing Frozen Synapse for proof of how to successfully update a classic game style), but it demands a developer who’s prepared to do more than simply re-issue and re-package. Worms:UM feels like a game that hasn’t matured with its audience or with the times, and has barely attempted to update its creaking mechanics in any way. Being able to put together a team of freaks in crowns, aviators and twirly moustaches, plus the freedom to name them whatever you like (profanity permitting, one assumes), is a feature Worms still has over most other titles. Something the title does thankfully manage to get right is the traditional ability to create your own team of worms from a wide selection of hands, eyes, glasses, hats and so on (with more unlockable from an in-game store with ‘coins’ won on missions). Still, it is possible to eke out a moderately good time playing Worms:UM with other human beings. It’s pretty rare to kill more than a couple of worms with one barrage or shot, which is not great for a title with the subheading ‘Ultimate Mayhem’. Removing the linearity of the landscape seriously reduces the potential for enclosed, chain-reaction carnage, leaving encounters feeling rather low-key and drawn-out. Multiplayer also suffers from the problems of 3D detailed above. In fact, even when a spot of drowning is out of the question, it’s often best to reach for a humble bazooka or the dependable dynamite rather than let loose one of the weirder attacks like the inflatable scouser. This is kind of a shame, because it undermines the effectiveness and worth of all the novelty firearms on offer. With every Worms:UM map surrounded by the stuff, the quickest way to kill your foes is to send them to the depths of a pond. No matter what game style you choose, the deadliest weapon on offer is going to be water.
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