SEARCH FOR: Advanced Search Guest Level 00 Register | Log in NEWS Home > Product Reviews Latest News Hot Topics Product Reviews Worms 3D Offers News Archive Save on Worms: 3D at Games and Leisure ShopGenie PRODUCT REVIEWS Worms 3D [MacUser] Latest Reviews Latest Reviews Reviews Archive COMPANY: Feral Interactive PRICE: £30 (£25.53 ex VAT) Comic Life 1.1 Labs RATING: ISSUE: 20 16 DATE: Aug 04 A List LaunchBar 4 SHOPPING Verdict: This is a superb edition of a winning franchise, and Worms has made the transition well from 2D to 3D. Buy it and kiss your spare time Olympus Camedia P-440E Classifieds goodbye Apple Resellers Canon MV850i It's not often that a game creates a genre all of its own, but Vue 5 Infinite ANALYSIS the Worms series comes pretty close. On paper it sounds pretty dull: you command teams of worms trying to use a Columns › See more Latest Reviews Features selection of weapons to annihilate the opposition. It's not even live action; Worms uses a turn-based approach. Features INTERACTIVE However, Worms is one of the longest-running franchises Rotoscoping using iMovie 4 IT Forums in gaming history, and five minutes spent playing will show Competitions you why. The big change is, as is suggested by the title, that Worms is now in full 3D. and Photoshop Elements 3 Scrapbook While Worms purists used to the side-on 2D platform look of previous incarnations Managing information with DOWNLOADS might balk at this, it's a natural and very well-executed progression. The graphics are Project Center Audio superb, with an entirely appropriate Play-Doh feel and plenty of environmental effects, such as rain, to add texture and depth. Characters are animated beautifully, Automating effects in Ableton Business with characteristic ham actor flourishes, and the specifications are modest enough Live 4 Games that even on relatively low-end computers, the animation runs smoothly. Graphics How to make HTML emails Internet The supplied landscapes are rich and well-detailed, and as you progress through the Utilities game, more are unlocked. As with previous versions, you can generate your own The ultimate guide to photo landscapes too, either through selecting a random set of characteristics or by typing printing FOCUS ON... in a number that will create a specific set of circumstances. This means that, in theory, you should never get bored of this game, as you can always create new Replacing your iPod's hard Broadband landscapes. disk Music Printers The core gameplay remains the same, and touches that have endeared the Worms Using Macromedia Contribute Digital Cameras series to many gamers are still there. The voice sets you can choose for your team to edit .Mac pages of worms are corny but amusing, and there are plenty of other settings to tinker with. USEFUL INFO The iPod sock It's still turn-based, of FAQ course, and there are plenty Audio compression MAGAZINE of gaming modes to keep you occupied. There's Using chapter markers to Subscribe Now enough even for solitary create iDVD menus Change Subscription gamers, and it's easy just to Latest Issue fire up a quick game. For › See more Features more meaty gameplay, the FREE NEWSLETTER campaign missions, which Register for your free are based around a loose weekly newsletter here narrative, offer medals for completed levels. These get progressively more difficult and should provide even the most dedicated gamer with plenty of hours of happy worming. ADVERTISEMENT But while even single users are well served with lots to do, the game really comes into its own with multiple players. You have three options: 'Hot Seat' with some friends, all huddling round one Mac, jumping in front of the screen when it's your turn; LAN Play, connecting computers over a local network; and Internet play, where you connect to the GameRanger service to challenge players all over the world. GameRanger is a Mac-only service, and owing to hardware differences between Mac and PC it's impossible to play cross-platform games. There's a good community of players on GameRanger, though, and you're unlikely to feel lacking in options. Long- time Worms players will understand the satisfaction we felt when prodding opposition worms into the drink, and because the game's so simple, you can happily play over the internet even if you're on dial-up. There were some glitches with LAN Play with the very first incarnation of the game, but Feral Interactive quickly released a patch that solved the problem. The range of weapons is impressive, and their execution is always well rendered and gently humorous. It can be tricky to get a full overview of one worm's situation though, as the game's system doesn't allow the camera to move through solid objects, but you can overcome this simply by switching to the aiming view. The keys themselves are easy, but aren't particularly well suited to laptop users. With their curtailed keyboards, some of the commands can be difficult to enter, and for the sake of simplicity there's no way to define your own keys. This is a superb edition of a winning franchise, and Worms has made the transition well from 2D to 3D. Buy it and kiss your spare time goodbye. 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