Worms Armageddon: Anniversary Version Overview (PS5)

Regardless of numerous sequels, Workforce 17’s turn-based technique sequence has struggled to higher 1999’s Worms Armageddon. The developer is aware of it, too; Worms WMD is predicated on the fan-favourite recreation’s source code, and the Steam launch of Armageddon has been constantly up to date, most just lately with a significant patch in 2020. Now, Worms Armageddon: Anniversary Version celebrates 25 years of wiggly warfare, and it is nonetheless numerous enjoyable.

This model basically brings the modernised PC construct to consoles and throws in some extras. The Sport Boy model is included and absolutely playable, whereas a Battle Tales part takes you thru the origins of Worms. It options interviews with key figures, fascinating asides, design documentation, and extra. Should you like your business historical past, Digital Eclipse has offered a good Worms lesson right here.

However what of the primary occasion? Properly, it is Worms Armageddon, solely with a considerably increased decision, on-line multiplayer (sadly not crossplay), and a modest set of Trophies. The only participant remains to be comparatively strong however the construction and problem spikes imply it actually reveals its age. Equally, the menus all through is usually a little complicated to navigate, and the controls could be initially tough to work out, and the presentation is broadly fairly archaic.

Nevertheless, when you’re over these hurdles, this stays a extremely entertaining technique recreation with numerous methods to play. Its large strengths are its friendship-making/destroying multiplayer and thorough customisation choices, letting you make your personal rulesets, groups, and procedurally generated maps. Nevertheless you select to interact with it, the sport’s brief turns, cartoonish physics, and big selection of weapons all contribute to a great time, whether or not it is in small bursts or lengthy multiplayer classes.

While you’re within the thick of a match, utilizing a baseball bat to smack a worm into the water, blowing up a cluster of enemies with a well-placed sheep, or expertly crossing the map with a ninja rope, solely to botch the touchdown and begin a series response of mines and exploding barrels, all of the tough edges erode away. Worms Armageddon: Anniversary Version is a warts-and-all revival of a recreation that, 25 years later, nonetheless has it the place it counts, and there aren’t too many titles that may make that declare.