Citing the fact that the title is already available via partnernet (the developer version of Xbox Live), the poster went on to state that the full game will land soon after its official announcement at the show, running from January 8-11. They went on to comment that both free and premium priced downloadable content is already in the works, and the game itself will allow for a more "pick up and play" experience. Does this hint at a GoW style 'jump in' co-op feature?
Man, I loved the original Worms. In fact, I failed an exam because of it back in the day. Now look at me...
They've been talking about this for a while, I was wondering what happened to it. They really need better progress reports on these XBLA titles, so we can at least have a rough idea of when they're coming.
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Very nice. I've never played Worms (a sin, I know), but I've always heard good things. It plays similiar to the old PC shareware Scortched Earth, doesn't it?
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Very nice. I've never played Worms (a sin, I know), but I've always heard good things. It plays similiar to the old PC shareware Scortched Earth, doesn't it?
But much funnier and with far more interesting weapons.
Worms is one of the best multiplayer games I've ever played. My roommates and I in college used to play this for hours upon hours on end on my PC. The random maps were awesome too, because it always kept the game fresh.
I just hope they have two to four player co-op on the same X360.
Also, does anyone know if this is based off of original Worms? Worms Armageddon?
Interesting to see if turn-based strategy, even cartoony, can draw an audience and not be filled with slow-playing jerks on XBLA. I'm happy to give it a go...
Yeah, the original worms/worms 2 were probably my favorite. Learning to control the ninja rope was a fucking artform. I kicked so many bitches offa hilltops with the shit.
Right now they are getting lots of praise, but I think that XBLA will be the ghetto of downloadable games within the year. They just can't compete with the back-library available to Sony and Nintendo. Well, maybe they could compete, if they removed the ridiculous limitation to 50MB on all XBLA games and started selling old Xbox titles. I'd pay $10-$20 for KOTOR, Psychonauts, and Ninja Gaiden Black. I'd also pay that amount for new games that were fun too.
It will be interesting to see if Microsoft can adapt to competition in this.
Yeah, the original worms/worms 2 were probably my favorite. Learning to control the ninja rope was a fucking artform. I kicked so many bitches offa hilltops with the shit.
I loved the first game so much. The intro video was great too. And yah...you can do some crazy shit with that ninja rope. I used to love getting it to flip you over backwards.
I loved the first game so much. The intro video was great too. And yah...you can do some crazy shit with that ninja rope. I used to love getting it to flip you over backwards.
Man. That, XCOM's Blaster Launcher, and the grapple in ThreeWaveCTF back in the day are my favorite weapons of all time. Gears Lancer is probably up there now too.
I suspect it's a totally new Worms, much in the vein of their latest or even some of Team17's work on the new PSP Lemmings.
This one should be good!
As for "back catalog" and all that, I think I'd have to go with new content (whether XBLA, Sony, whatever) than old stuff. I have warm and fuzzies for stuff, just like anyone else, but I really don't need to PAY to play a game that I can find an emulator and a rom for in a matter of minutes. Or I could just bust out my old carts, since I still have them all.
And bitching about $10-$20 for Ninja Gaiden or Psychonauts as a "downloadable", when you can go out and pick up a copy of it RIGHT NOW for that much and play it on your 360 (backwards compat) is just stupid.
The only reason Wii looks like a good bet right now is because they're playing catch up and they're not dumb enough to trickle out titles one at a time. Even still, all of these services need to stop with the retro-shovelware and get on with a solid stream of new and exciting titles. I could accept the shite one week, if I knew a gem was coming next week instead of getting shafted with Novadrome and Rally-X for a 2 week gap of crap.
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Man. That, XCOM's Blaster Launcher, and the grapple in ThreeWaveCTF back in the day are my favorite weapons of all time. Gears Lancer is probably up there now too.
Anyway, every game should have a ninja rope.
ThreeWaveCTF... ah, memories. Every single time a new FPS game came out, I drooled over news of ANY grapple mod. I freaking love them things, regardless of the game.
