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- W O R M S
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- TEAM 17/Ocean
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- CD-ROM Version £19.99 (Game)
- Also available on 3.5" disks.
- Works on ANY Amiga
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- Tested on A1200 2chip/4fast, CD-ROM
- A1200 2chip/4fast 030/50Mhz, CD-ROM
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- Worms what are they good for huh?
- Well let me tell you NEVER let a worm here you say that or they might use
- the dreaded Sheep bomb on you!
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- Now every man and his dog (or woman and her cat) has heard of this game.
- Some mags say its a cross between Cannon Fodder and Lemmings, well let me
- tell ya thats a load of bollox. It might look a tiny bit like Lemmings
- but it doesn't play like Lemmings, it might have guns like Cannon Fodder
- but it don't play like Cannon Fodder. The nearest thing to Worms is
- Scorched Tanks in the Amiga PD, but Worms is miles better!
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- OK on to the plot, well there isn't one? Erm on to the game play then.
- Chaos has grabbed hold of the peaceful worms and now they have donned the
- Rambo style kit and grabbed the biggest badest weapons they can find.
- This is where you come in, taking control of a squad or worms you must
- battle to the last with other worms in a bloody confrontation that will
- go down in history as the end of the worm empire!
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- Weapons at you disposal are, Bazooka, Homing Missile, Grenade, Cluster
- Bomb, Banana Bomb?, Shotgun, Uzi, Minigun, Fire Punch, Dragon Ball,
- Dynamite, Landmines, Sheep?, Airstrike, Kamikazi and the deadly Prod!
- Other equipment you have access to are, Teleport, Blowtorch, Drill,
- Bungee, Ninja Rope, Girders.
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- The various worlds you battle on are, Artic, Hades/Hell, Forest, Mars,
- Desert, Alien, Tropical Jungle, Junk/Scrapyard.
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- If playing on an Amiga not a PC :) then you can also design your own
- worlds to play on! This is an Amiga only feature! Kewl eat that and die
- you sad PC owners :-)
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- Well back to the game, once you have selected the type of game you wish
- to play (friendly, league, knock out) and the number of players (1-4(16))
- and edited your squads names (Makes the game so much fun if you name the
- enemy worms like, John Major, Mrs Thatcher etc, then its so good to blow
- em up!). The computer then randomly generates a level, estimated to be
- around 16 Billion combinations! Your squad is the placed onto the level
- and you and the enemies take it in turns to lob, fire weapons at each
- other.
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- To fire a weapon you first select it eg Bazooka then set the
- elevation/angle at which to fire the weapon, next estimate how much power
- is needed to reach its target. So hold down the fire button till the
- power bar reaches the required amount of energy and let go. If all goes
- well you shell should fly through the air landing on its target with a
- huge explosion and a scream from the enemy like 'Your'll regret that!'.
- Also take note of the wind as its very easy for a weapon to be blown off
- course or even back on top of you or one of your own men with the sound
- of 'Stupid!'.
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- Apart from shooting each other there are tactics that can be played, like
- using the drill and blow torch to tunnel underground and lay dynamite,
- land mines etc.
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- The game is total open ended and is great fun for all ages (my kid sister
- is constantly beating me) it will keep you entertained for ages and ages.
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- The game also makes full use of the CD32 type pads so if you haven't got
- one go get one ;)
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- On the CD is 7 music tracks REAL music that can be played through the
- Amiga while playing the game or even played through a normal CD player.
- But I don't think any of the tracks will reach the top 100 ;)
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- Also on the CD is a number of raytraced animations/intros. Each time you
- start the game one of the animations is selected at random and played.
- Some of the anims are very good and a real laff. I love the one with the
- Uzi an the trees.
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- Worms is an all time classic and every Amiga owner should own it. Worth
- every penny. Well done Team 17.
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- WARNING: I tryed to run the CD on a 2meg A1200 with CD-ROM but after
- booting the Game crashes. Out of memory error! This might have been my
- set up but before buying for an A1200 make sure you can exchange it for a
- floppy version if it doesn't work on your system.
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- M A D N E S S
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