You are logged in as GeorgeK. Log out. Simple search: GO Home | About | Best/Worst | New/Upcoming | Reviews | Preferences Review Worms 3D by funkboy (Karl Becker) The Sims 2 Publisher: Feral Interactive Evolution of what is Mac Developer: Zonic probably the most popular Original Developer: Team 17 game of all time. The new version is in full 3D, and Release Date: May 2004 goes into greater detail in Estimated Price: US$50 virtually every area: Main Categories: Arcade relationships, work, home Subcategories: Classic furnishings. BUY NOW PR Spin Worms 3D is a strategy game that combines in-depth strategy action and cartoon fun! Use crazy weapons, tools and utilities to destroy the rival worms invading your territory. The winning team is the one that manages to survive the mayhem and leave worms standing when the dust settles! Tropico 2: Pirate Cove Preside over a hidden Our Take pirate island. Protect your island -- and your bounty -- The venerable Worms series joins the 3D party a little late, but in flying from the French, Spanish colors. Though some of the game play takes a bit to get used to with the and English fleets. added dimension, the main ingredient of fun continues to shine through. BUY NOW Console vs. Computer Ads by Google Playing Worms on a computer is different than playing Worms 2D on a console. My first Civilization 3 Worms experience was on the Sega Complete Dreamcast one day when my friend rejoiced Download and own about how fun this game was. I hadn't heard it right now. 700+ of Worms before, so I heard of and played PC games at Worms for the first time that day. I picked it Trygames.com! up and was hooked in about ten minutes. It www.trygames.com was simple to understand and had lots of fun Enjoy seeing the fruits of your labor. physics with worms bouncing and explosions flying. Midnight Club 3 Worms seemed more straightforward in 2D; Worms veterans will certainly DUB Ed. require some time to get used to the slightly flaky camera system. Aside Get tips, tricks, from that, the 3D graphics are very fun, colorful, and bright to keep the reviews & cheats. classic style going with excellent gameplay. Visit us for new game news & Control, or Lack Thereof forums 1up.com The controls are not completely intuitive. I did not know how to jump or switch weapons after playing the game's demo occasionally for a week and playing the full version for fifteen minutes on my iMac. The tutorial had Civilization Iii such helpful advice as "Press the Jump button to jump." I dug into the Top Game Titles FAQ.html file installed with the game and found nothing. I felt silly after I Starting From noticed the controls printed on the booklet inside the nice Worms 3D DVD £9.99 Free UK case, but it was not a place I wanted to look right away; I wanted to jump Delivery and Quick in immediately and start playing the game! A handy guide for demo Dispatch players: WASD moves, Return jumps, control-click or F12 brings up the www.play.com weapons panel, 'q' aims, and 'delete' fires secondary weapon. The goal of Worms is to knock out all the other team's worms with a variety of Command & weapons. These include a grenade launcher, Conquer shotgun, machine gun, and even an exploding Find Low Prices sheep. (We like that last one the best.) on Thousands of Almost all weapons from past tours of duty Video Games, have returned in this version. PS2, Xbox, PC & More! Team 17 opted not to fuss with gameplay Move around to gain the strategic www.shopgenie.co.uk/games much. Once understood, the gameplay is fun advantage. and varied just like classic Worms: the game is broken up into turns, where you maneuver into position, select your weapon, and set up your attack, and then let it fly. A story mode provides different challenges for the player against the computer in a variety of locales. The Extra Dimension Most play mechanics have translated well from 2D into 3D. The Ninja Rope, a tricky utility to use in previous versions of Worms, has kept its difficulty but not been made much harder to use in three dimensions. Kudos to Team 17 for keeping gameplay simple and fun even in 3 dimensions. My only complaint is the slightly wonky camera system, though it can usually be changed by the player to get a decent view of the game. Worms 3D ushers in hardware requirements for Worms. Previous versions were simple 2D affairs that would run on most any machine, but Worms 3D requires at least 32MB of VRAM and a 700MHz G4 processor. Most serious Mac gamers won't be bothered by this, but casual gamers that Worms has always appealed to may not have enough horsepower if their computer is over 1.5 years old. All in all, you're in for a treat if you'd like a romp through some cartoony silliness as an alternative to today's uber-realistic bloodbaths. Take note, that though the game is technically violent, it's a good sleeper choice for kids this holiday season, since the violence isn't much worse than what we've seen transpire between Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner. Gameplay 9 Graphics 8 Performance 7 Price 9 Longevity 9 Visit the Product Page Reviewed on December 16th, 2004 Site ©1999-2002 Suzerain Studios. All other service marks are the property of their respective holders..