Worms 3D

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Description

As depicted very well by the title of the game, the infamous quarrelsome Worms are squirming for the first time in full 3D. The goal of the game hasn't changed a single bit from its predecessors: the objective is still to crush, annihilate and put into oblivion the worm team of the enemy using massively-wacky weapons of destruction. About all the features of its original 2D ancestors are also present, including random wind and a fully destructible landscape.

Not all the weapons that were previously available have made the cut into the 3 dimensional realm, however Worms 3D comes too with a selective set of new weaponry such as the Lottery Strike or the Gas Grenade which should allow you to find a few dozen of new ways to kill your fellow worms online.

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Alternate Titles

• "百战天虫3D" -- Simplified Chinese spelling
• "Worms 3D: Special Edition" -- US Xbox in-game title
• "Worms3" -- Working title
• "Baizhan Tianchong 3D" -- Simplified Chinese title

Part of the Following Groups

• Animals: Worms
• Gameplay feature: Freely destructible terrain
• Gameplay feature: Jetpack
• Games with randomly generated environments
• Physics Engine: Havok
• Software Pyramide releases
• Sound engine: MusyX Audio Tools
• Visual technique / style: Voxel graphics
• Worms series
• Xbox Classics releases

User Reviews

Wow, what a disappointment!	Windows	kbmb (435)
Worms is back, and in 3D!	GameCube	Jon Collins (28)
Even when watered down, Worms still tastes delicious	PlayStation 2	Zokolov (66)

Critic Reviews

Game Over Online	GameCube	Jul 28, 2004	82 out of 100	82
Macworld	Macintosh	Sep 17, 2004		80
AppleLinks.Com	Macintosh	Jun 22, 2004		80
SegaFan.com	PlayStation 2	Jan 20, 2004	7.3 out of 10	73
GameSpot	Xbox	Mar 03, 2005	7.1 out of 10	71
Yahoo! Games	Xbox	Mar 07, 2005		70
GameSpy	Xbox	Feb 17, 2005		70
Game Informer Magazine	GameCube	Mar, 2004	7 out of 10	70
Total Cube	GameCube	Nov, 2003	14 out of 20	70
Nintendo Difference	GameCube	Nov 19, 2003	13 out of 20	65

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Trivia

April's Fool

As Team 17's 2003 April Fools' joke, it was announced that the war in Iraq had forced Team 17 to remove all of the "realistic" weapons from the game (Bazooka, Grenade, Shotgun) and replace them with cartoony alternatives such as Sausage Strikes and Pineapple Bombs. In fact, there was for a limited time a version of the Worms 3D logo where a pineapple wearing sunglasses and a smile replaced the traditional grenade.

Awards

• 4Players
  • 2003 – Best PC Party Game of the Year

Related Web Sites

• Worms 3D (official website)
• Official Webpage (Mac) (The official product page for the Mac version of Worms 3D on the publisher's website, which provides a series of short movies, a profile of the game, desktop wallpapers, demos, and purchasing information, among other such details.)
• Tossing a Banana Bomb Never Felt So Real (An Apple Games article about the Macintosh version of Worms 3D, with commentary being provided by Producer Paul Kilburn (May, 2004).)
• Worms 3D (Official website from Team17)
• Worms 3D (Official website from Sega)