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Worms 3D
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 23 critic reviews
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Game Info
Publisher: Sega Europe / Acclaim
Developer: Team 17 Software
Genre(s): Turn-Based Strategy
Players: 4
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Release Date: March 11, 2004
Summary
Worms comes to PC and console in full 3-D, continuing to capture the true essence of the game as teams of worms battle across bizarre, randomly generated landscapes, or across finely crafted, custom-designed levels utilising an arsenal of devastating weapons. The gameplay remains unchanged, featuring turn-based fighting and relying on the player to judge the trajectory and strength of their shots in order to inflict maximum damage on opponents. All the favourite weapons such as bazooka, grenade, dynamite, air strike and sheep are present including some new additions. Defensive tactics can also be employed as you choose to dig in with buildings, trenches, sandbags or fortifications, while buildings on the landscapes can also provide shelter against attacks. Adapt your strategy according to the weapons available, landscape and each new opponent you play. With a multitude of tactics available, coupled with the ever-changing, randomly generated landscapes, no battle will ever be the same. Worms 3D is set in a more exciting and immersive game world than ever before, with the emphasis on great multi-player action and challenging single-player fun.
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What The Critics Said
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GameCube Europe
A great pick up and play game, and the Quick Start mode means you can have a fast twenty minute game if you want, or get stuck into Campaign or multiplayer instead.
Read Full Review >Next Level Gaming
It's literally hours of fun, and I am as serious as I can be about that. Worms 3D takes a classic game that I have always enjoyed, added the 3D part yet completely kept the gameplay intact perfectly.
Read Full Review >TotalGames.net
Whether it's better than the old 2D games will come more down to personal preference, but it's a welcome twist on the old formula that opens up far more tactical options than ever before.
Read Full Review >GamingWorld X
Team 17 has taken almost all of what made the original games fun and plopped it into 3D. It isn’t quite as much fun as the two-dimensional games, but Worms 3D is certainly the best strategy title on the GameCube.
Read Full Review >Nintendojo
Worms 3D’s major problem is that it is in 3D. The uninspired camera and technical oversights, such as the inability to use multiple controllers, prevent the game from receiving an especially high score. However, the game does offer loads of fun if you can get past the flaws.
Read Full Review >Game Over Online
It may be the single cutest way possible to empty an Uzi into your friends' heads.
Read Full Review >Yahoo! Games
Worms 3D's new engine isn't a necessary improvement on the classic and enduring 2D game, but the upgrade works, even if it makes the controls a little more cumbersome. It still has the tone, humour and playability that is synonymous with Worms.
Read Full Review >Deeko
Worms 3D may not succeed completely when it boils down to the measure of its technical parts, but the entire experience proves to be an immeasurably amusing and incredibly entertaining (as well as humorous) way to kill some time.
Read Full Review >Eurogamer
Despite the criticisms, Team 17 has still managed to pull off an impressive evolution of a much-loved series. The core game has remained barely unchanged, but the 3D engine introduces a lot of unexpected elements to get used to, both good and bad.
Read Full Review >Gamenikki
It's not so much a major 3D advancement or a 3D reinvention of the series as it is a nice 3D sequel, with some little technical qualms that may occasionally prove to be frustrating.
Read Full Review >Game Informer
Just as addictive as its predecessors, but features more thoughtful challenges and conquests. [Mar 2004, p.97]
Read Full Review >GameSpot
The old-timers out there may find that though the transition to 3D is novel, it doesn't really have much impact on the overall experience.
Read Full Review >Electronic Gaming Monthly
While the fantastic Worms formula stays intact here, it becomes infinitely more difficult to gauge distances, wind, and all that in 3D. For that reason alone, I can't recommend this one over its 2D predecessors. [Apr 2004, p.116]
Read Full Review >Nintendo Power
The game is every bit as charming and addictive as its predecessors. [May 2004, p.120]
IGN
I think I prefer the 2D battlefield to the 3D one just because it seems to be all around more intuitive.
Read Full Review >Edge Magazine
Singleplayer is weak - despite well-worked tutorial and mission modes it always feels like target practice for combat with friends - and the lack of online support disappoints. But despite a potentially hazardous dimensional switch, it remains as appealing a way of antagonising your friends as ever. [Dec 2003, p.108]
Play Magazine
Use of certain weapons and locomotion across the map can be cumbersome, and the game just doesn't have that same pendulum energy of before in the fights. [Apr 2004, p.64]
Nintendophiles
The hit or miss of long-range weapons is a back breaker, especially in the single player against a computer opponent that knows how to judge everything perfectly.
Read Full Review >Cheat Code Central
There are some technical bugs, specifically the camera angles and perspectives, that spoil some of the fun but overall Worms 3D is in the ballpark - even if it's just standing in line to use the washroom.
GMR Magazine
If you dig its goofy sense of humor, or if you're a fan of previous Worms games, you might find something to like once you get past the 3D-induced flaws.
Read Full Review >Gaming Age
All the wacky weapons and wormitude are present in Worms 3D, but it offers far more frustrating moments than fun ones.
Read Full Review >games(TM)
While Worms 3D essentially delivers what it says on the tin, in surrendering its intuitive interface the concept has evolved into a far less attractive proposition. A shame. [Dec 2003, p.126]
NTSC-uk
The use of the third dimension with a few of the special weapons is a bright point in what is mostly an uninspired, placid and, in the main, perplexing experience.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 7.9 (out of 10) based on 16 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Dallas P. gave it a7:
The camera takes getting used to and it crashed on me a couple times but otherwise very fun. I'm a fan of Worms World Party and while this isn't quite as fun as that, it's still enjoyable, especially in two player mode. I did miss not being able to tunnel but that's life. If you like the Worms games, it is worth checking out.
Brendan C. gave it a1:
I think it is the worst game I ever played. I'm going to be blunt, it's just a stupid game. I can't get past how annoying the stupidity of all the characters are. All their stupid sounds they make and even the way they look makes me want to kill myself. I honestly don't know how people can actually take this pitiful excuse for a game seriously.
Daniel M. gave it a 9:
The best multiplayer game bar wario ware.
B Boyle gave it a 10:
This is one of my favorite games right now. it is freakin sweet. worms battles on big screens rock.
Paul K. gave it a 10:
Great game.
Big pie gave it an 8:
True, it's not traditional worms. True, the controls are tough to get used to. But once you (a) get over it and (b) get used to it, there's no better worms.
The scon gave it a 3:
It's the dullest, most confusing game on the gamecube with crap graphics and not addictive as its 2d companions.
