THQ and Team17 take the long-running franchise on the road, but do they give gamers enough incentive to open up this whole new can of Worms? Read Review
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A portable edition of the long-running strategy game from Team17, allowing players to command war with those wily worms anywhere they go. In Worms: Open Warfare, players command an army of worms into battle against others, and try to take them out by employing an array of lethal and quirky weaponry. Skip boat. The game features traditional weapons, such as grenades, pistols and rocket launchers, as well as non-traditional arms and gadgets including a sheep launcher. Each worm has health points, and by successfully using weapons players can take out the individual worm threat by whittling down their heath. Watch out, though - these worms are pushovers, and if an innocent worm gets in the way of a defeated worm, they could potentially take damage from the impending explosion a worm gets in with his dying breath. The game supports hot potato and wireless link multiplay for up to four (using one cartridge).
Worms: Open Warfare Review Clumsy controls, rocky presentation, and a dearth of gameplay options hinder Worms' return to 2D on the DS. By Ryan Davis on April 5, 2006 at 6:36PM PDT. Mar 22, 2006 Ultimately, Worms: Open Warfare feels really undercooked. Everybody knows that there’s potential for a good Worms game on the DS – you’ve got the Wi-Fi online play, stylus allowing for mouse-like precision and all of that jazz, but Open Warfare doesn’t exactly make good use of.
Worms: Open Warfare is an artillery strategy game.2 It was developed by Team17 and published by THQ for the PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS.1 There are several other Worms video games in the Worms series. The game marked Team17's return to its 2D roots.2 The game spawned a sequel, Worms: Open Warfare 2, which is also available on Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable.In Worms: Open Warfare, the player takes control of an army of worms. The goal of the game is to defeat the opposing army through reducing the health points of enemy worms using various types of weaponry while avoiding friendly fire and other obstacles. The weapons and gadgets you use in battle include grenades, homing missiles, bazookas, cluster bombs, banana bombs (a Worms staple), dynamite, air strikes, shotguns, and many more. You can also choose from a variety of settings to battle in and make your own schemes and teams.The game is played in rounds with each worm starting with 100 hit points. Each team takes turns controlling one of their worms.
The player is usually allocated 60 seconds per turn to move their worm around the battlefield and attack the opponent worms, though this time limit is customisable when playing non-career games. Only one attack is allowed per turn.In addition to timing individual player turns, each round has a 20-minute time limit. If the round timer runs down to 0:00 before a team claims victory, every worm's HP drops to 1, creating a sudden death scenario. During the course of a round, crates containing health or weapons will occasionally drop and the water level will rise.