It's calamitous, and often nothing less than hilarious. The most exciting games can be won or lost on a fumbled thrust of a jetpack or an ill-judged rope swing.
The controls don't need to be as fiddly as they are but there's a hilarity that lies within the accidental discharge of a rocket launcher. Part of the genius behind the Worms games has always been a control scheme that is one part simple, one part terrible.
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Plus it gives impatient players something to do between goes other than twiddling their thumbs. It's an invaluable tactic to know because it means precious seconds of turn time won't be wasted on crafting. Crafting can be done at any time, it doesn't constitute a turn, and clever players can even start crafting while their opponents take their turn. Each item needs its own specific combination of components to make, with the more powerful weapons requiring larger quantities or rarer ingredients. These components can be used to create new weapons and tools in a special crafting panel, accessible through the weapons menu. Perhaps the biggest new addition though is a rudimentary crafting system that sees players collecting components from special crates that drop into the play area at random points during matches. Collect enough ingredients and you can craft deadly new versions of classic weapons. There are new weapons, too, such as the satellite powered OMG Strike that disintegrates a large chunk of the play area and the Dodgy Phone Battery that creates an electrical charge which jumps between any Worms unlucky enough to be within its range. Vehicles make their first appearance in a Worms game, as do buildings that players can enter for cover and a tactical advantage. That's not to say that nothing new has been added. And to be honest, it's worked a treat WMD is a joy to play, and an instant throwback to what made the pre-noughties games so enjoyable. Instead of trying to innovate it's gone back to basics with simpler, purer two-dimensional gameplay that's instantly reminiscent of arguably the best game in the series, Worms Armageddon. With WMD though, Team 17 has opted for a different approach.
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After 20 years, the series had simply grown tired and jaded, much like the enthusiasm of its fan base. Some ideas worked, some didn't, but for all that effort it seemed like Team17 was consistently missing the mark. Over the past two decades Team17 has tried reinvigorating the series in a variety of ways, including moving the gameplay from 2D to 3D, through to introducing different classes of Worms. Worms WMD is something like the 20th Worms game to have been produced by Team 17 during the past two decades, and I'd run out of fingers and toes to count on before even getting to the spin-offs ( Worms Crazy Golf anyone?). 20 years and countless games later, Team 17 rediscovers some of the old magic for Worms.
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