The Worms series will be getting a new game this year

WormsLogo.png

Information may be scant right now, but what we do know for a fact is that Worms is returning later this year. Publisher Team 17 just confirmed that a new Worms game is slated for release in 2020, offering a teaser trailer that promises more information to come "soon". This will be the first new game in the series since 2016's Worms: WMD, which released on all current-generation consoles and PC. Worms is a long-running "strategy" franchise, which saw its first release all the way back in 1995, for DOS, the Sega Saturn, the Amiga, and other retro platforms.

 

cearp

瓜老外
Developer
Joined
May 26, 2008
Messages
8,721
Trophies
2
XP
8,471
Country
Tuvalu
Well no shit because the first release of the game was from 2006
ha ok... it has been updated so it's not like it's the exact version from 2006.
the thing is it's STILL like 'old worms', instead of what worms has become over the last few games.
 
  • Like
Reactions: James_

MikaDubbz

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Dec 12, 2017
Messages
3,836
Trophies
1
Age
36
XP
7,161
Country
United States
ha ok... it has been updated so it's not like it's the exact version from 2006.
the thing is it's STILL like 'old worms', instead of what worms has become over the last few games.
How exactly is the latest game, WMD, not like a refined version of the old Worms games (like 2, Armageddon, and World Party)? Sure, it has more modes you can optionally play, like forts, or things like vehicles you can toggle on and off, but the core mode is still there in the style of the best games in the franchise and even better if you ask me.
 

Tom Bombadildo

Dick, With Balls
Member
Joined
Jul 11, 2009
Messages
14,573
Trophies
2
Age
29
Location
I forgot
Website
POCKET.LIKEITS
XP
19,186
Country
United States
The series went south after Worms World Party in my opinion. In fact Armageddon reigns supreme. The amount of hours I put into that game is unfathomable.
This for sure, I put an ungodly amount of time in WWP and Armageddon when I was younger, but the latter games just don't tickle that same itch for me. WWP is still the very first game I install on any XP PC I get my hands on, and I always make sure to keep the remastered Armageddon and WWP installed on my gaming PCs whenever I feel the need to play again.
 
  • Like
Reactions: shaunj66

redmagejosh

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Jan 9, 2015
Messages
381
Trophies
0
Location
Panama City, Panama
XP
1,947
Country
Panama
Oh man... the memories... I recall playing with my neighbors all stuck together in front of 1 screen, sharing 1 mouse and keyboard, taking turns to throw everything at each other. Good 'ol days of Worms Armageddon.
 
  • Like
Reactions: swutch

Pleng

Custom Title
Member
Joined
Sep 14, 2011
Messages
2,439
Trophies
2
XP
2,810
Country
Thailand
Honestly for me the very first game was perfect already. I spent hours playing that game with my brothers and friends. I never really got excited for any of the sequels.

For me, as a franchise grows it starts getting bogged down. Too many options. Fighting games get too many characters to bother learning them all, racing games get too many different types of vehicles or customisation options, and games like this just get too many weapons to bother learning them all.

My perfect wish for this would be a remake of the first game, with added online mode which can be played in a real "turn-based" style rather than live.

That's never going to happen though, obviously and unfortunately.
 

lordelan

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Jan 4, 2015
Messages
5,769
Trophies
1
Age
44
XP
6,475
Country
Germany
The series went south after Worms World Party in my opinion. In fact Armageddon reigns supreme. The amount of hours I put into that game is unfathomable.
I thought so as well but Worms: WMD is actually really good and I'm still very happy with it.
Always liked Worms 2 the most back in the days but WMD (despite the new "worms design" which I don't like a 100 % but it's still ok) is a really strong 2D entry and is fun even on the Switch.
And that's the reason why I wonder what they will come up with now. But if it's bad I still have WMD so I'm relaxed looking forward to it.
 

FAST6191

Techromancer
Editorial Team
Joined
Nov 21, 2005
Messages
36,798
Trophies
3
XP
28,284
Country
United Kingdom
Honestly for me the very first game was perfect already. I spent hours playing that game with my brothers and friends. I never really got excited for any of the sequels.

For me, as a franchise grows it starts getting bogged down. Too many options. Fighting games get too many characters to bother learning them all, racing games get too many different types of vehicles or customisation options, and games like this just get too many weapons to bother learning them all.

My perfect wish for this would be a remake of the first game, with added online mode which can be played in a real "turn-based" style rather than live.

That's never going to happen though, obviously and unfortunately.

You might be the first person I have met to swing that way (for others playing along I will go with the delineation of simple pixel art vs the cartoony thing, depending upon how you want to count then the simple pixel art games have a few entries between "director's cut" and what have you but it is not enough that we have to call them different games by the standards of the day). Now we certainly played the first a lot (PS1 version mainly, and despite admirable effort on the controls it was a bit lacking compared to mouse efforts, but others too) and had a great time but between 2 and Armageddon (I prefer 2 but I could see making a case for Armageddon) I found them a far superior game.
Create a map could be kind of broken and some of the super weapons if you turned them up to 11 as it were (which, being greasy teenagers, was wont to happen at times) could break the game but with a few house rules and in game settings*, especially when someone does the "that guy" thing and gets a bit too competent with a ninja rope, 2 and Armageddon became fantastic.

*I realise that in the face of my laughing at similar in the pokemon and smash brothers "competitive" scenes such a thing might be said to reflect poorly on me but I will make it anyway.
 
  • Like
Reactions: KiiWii

Site & Scene News

Popular threads in this forum

General chit-chat
Help Users
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    From what people say pvp isn't even worth it
  • BigOnYa @ BigOnYa:
    I just been playing offline, and they give you a few bots here n there on your team to help battle. I don't think it's as funny as the other games tho, more battle oriented than humor, which kinda sucks, but I'm still early in it
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    @BigOnYa, doesnt the game have a campaign mode?
  • BigOnYa @ BigOnYa:
    Yea, and co-op, but you can also start a pvp session and battle just with friends. You get special skill cards (powers) the more you play. And higher value cards, but you can only enable so many cards at a time.
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    If you can find enough for it
  • BigOnYa @ BigOnYa:
    Toilet paper is considered the money, you collect and buy stuff with TP, kinda funny. Graphics are def better than the other games tho, I think they used Unity 5 engine.
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Look if I zoom in enough I can see the herpes!!!
    +1
  • BigOnYa @ BigOnYa:
    In fact I'm gonna go make a drink, roll a fatty n play some, good night to all!
    +2
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    I bet most people at the time still watched it in black and white
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @Xdqwerty, Many of them did before colour television was common.
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    Likely because black and white TV was in-expensive.
    +1
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    It certainly wasn't inexpensive it cost the same as a new car back then
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    How much did a 1965 color TV cost?

    For example, a 21-inch (diagonal) GE color television in 1965 had an advertised price of $499, which is equal to $4,724 in today's dollars, according to the federal government's inflation calculator.
    +1
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    @K3Nv2, take into consideration how economy was back then
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    Yeah that's why they listed inflation rates
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    Sorry didnt read that part
  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    @LeoTCK don't worry i knew he was joking
    +1
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    My first color TV was like 1984 or something lol
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    19 inches it was glorious lol
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @Psionic Roshambo, If it doesn't fit, you should've gotten one smaller lol
    +1
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    If a racoon can fit up to 8-inches then so be it
    SylverReZ @ SylverReZ: If a racoon can fit up to 8-inches then so be it