Battle Islands is remarkably ugly for how simple it is. Worms doesn’t need detailed or impressive graphics – they simply need to be pleasant to look at. Other than that, you’ll find little variety in graphics here. The thick-brushed style makes the whole game look cheap, and there is no style to be found anywhere. Graphically, Battle Islands is extremely dull. While you can make plenty of variations, there could still be a lot more variations. In friend only games you are given plenty of customisation options – you can use user-created levels and your own schemes. While the online servers are extremely sparse, Worms has always been about playing with friends and with the right people, Battle Islands can be really fun. Thankfully, Team 17 have included it this time round. The biggest thing missing in Space Oddity was the online mode. However, Worms has never been aimed at single-player. From a single-player point of view, this is where you’ll spend most of your time. While the campaign is made up of straight-up battles and boss fights, the puzzle mode gives you a wide range of objectives – one early level has you taking out a load of worms with a bazooka, with your movement abilities removed – to keep things varied. Like campaign mode there are thirty different scenarios. Throughout the campaign you’ll earn experience points and unlock new items for customising the look of your worms, new soundbanks for your worms and blueprints that can be used to create your own variations on the game’s weapons.

Enemies go from blowing themselves up with grenades to shooting a bazooka through a tiny gap in the scenery, bending it perfectly in the wind and hitting your well-placed worm dead on. Campaign mode is standard Worms affair: 30 levels of increasingly difficult levels. A worm dies if it loses all it’s health or gets knocked into water.īattle Islands comes in three main modes: Campaign, Puzzle and Multiplayer. Players take it in turn controlling one of their worms, positioning them in strategic locations and attacking enemy worms with one of the iconic Worms weapons – from a Bazooka to a Baseball Bat. Originally planned for WiiWare, Worms: Battle Islands brings the franchise to Wii for a second time, throwing away the sci-fi theme and sticking to the regular militarised theme the Worms franchise has had since the very beginning.įor those who have yet to experience a Worms game, it’s a game where cartoon worms battle each other with brilliantly over-the-top weaponry.

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