A rushed cash-in that could have been great if taken seriously.
User Rating: 6.4 | Worms World Party GBA
NOTE: This is the not entirely same as my review on Gamefaqs.com. I've edited it to be slightly more positive as I felt I was a bit too harsh. Worms on the GBA. What a great idea. The conversion would work perfectly. The GBA has the graphical power to do it. What could possibly go wrong? This... The worms series is one of my favourite game series. When I found this game I just had to buy it. First impressions were great. Appearance-wise there is nothing wrong with it at all. You only discover what's wrong with it until you start actually playing it. GRAPHICS The game looks exactly like it does on the PC. Yes, there's the odd animation missing but only truly hardcore worms fans should notice anything like that. The tiny screen works surprisingly well fitting all he action in. You even get the 3D snowflakes falling in the background. SOUND Oh dear. The music is very repeative, that's if you can even call the strange moaning music. There is only the 'English' language pack but this obviously can't be helped considering the limits in memory on the cartridge. The SX are still good which may bring back a few memories. Could be worse. GAMEPLAY The worms have a new enemy: bugs. Gameplay bugs. A good old fashioned worms veteran would know that dynamite cause a maximum of 75 points of damage. If the victim worm is further away from the blast, the less damage it will do. Not in this game. In this game as long as the worm is in the blast they will suffer a seemingly random amount of damage. It's the same for all weapons particularly with cluster weapons. The land has some crazy physics. It is still playable though once you get used to it and learn stop comparing it to the PC version. You cannot create teams. You can't even rename the CPU teams. I found this particually annoying as creating teams with funny names then killing them is one of the best things about worms. There is a mission mode which is a tad screwy but in the end it works relatively OK. All the missions are already unlocked because there isn't a save feature. You can play multiplayer on a single GBA (alá Advance Wars) which is very fun. Worms has always had great multiplayer and this feature is espically good if you're stuck out somewhere with a friend with nothing but a GBA by your side. Balancing the bugs out with the fact that this is worms on a handheld I've given it a 6. TILT My tilt goes up for the excellent multiplayer this game can offer with just a single GBA. OVERALL This game puts the Worms series to shame. It's clearly a quickly made port to make a bit of extra cash. The idea of worms on the GBA is excellent... if only they took it more seriously. If they did, it could even beat Advance Wars as no.1 GBA stratergy game. My advice; only get this if you're love the series.
