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Team 17/0coan
Andy Davidson
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£29.99
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for all the hype, it's finally here - the
end product, the final boxed version for
which we saved ourselves Yes, It's
Worms. and after what seems like on
eternity we hove the game everyone's
been wailing for. And we do mean literally everyone
because the game is available on PC, PC CD-
ROM, Mac, Mega Drive, SNES, Playstation, Saturn,
Jaguar, CD32, Gameboy and Amiga - the
machine the game was made on.
Programmed originally by Andy Davidson on
the Amiga, he sent
the game to
Team 17 who
wanted t o
Each weapon works in a different
way and it's best to select
them to suit your chosen strategy.
Here are a selection of
some of the best.
The Sheep - this is In rare supply
and is only available from a
weapons crate which is
dropped onto the ground The
sheep is actually a deadly
Some of the various weapons on offer
weapon that will charge into
your enemy and explode.
Airstrike - an eight-bomb
airstrike can be directed to a
certain area and can wipe out
a number of worms
Kamikaze - if desperate, your
worm can carry out a move
that ends in self-sacrifice. He
charges himself into a crowd of
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That') you, the one with the arrow
above your head, Now to find a victim...
publish the game multi-format and the
rest is history, so they say. It's certainly
heart-warming to see that these new
generation of high tech machines with
their glossy games are interested in anything
our humble machine has to offer, and
if first impressions are anything to go by It
certainly looks like it won't disappoint.
The idea behind It if you don't already know. Is
that you are placed in control of a team of Worms
and quite simply you have to obliterate the opposition
in all manner of cunning ways. It does
require a fair amount of skill, though, because the
other team are all tying to do exactly the same
thing.
You have a number of different weapons at
your disposal and there are also different ways
you can defend yourself. Each worm is dotted
around the landscape and according to the
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Gentlemen - choose your weapons
worms which will send them flying,
even though he has to die
for the cause
Homing Missile - ahh, the traditional
are sometimes best.
Launch the missile and watch it
hurl into the sky and towards
The enemy. You need practice
Though to estimate the most
likely path it will take.