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But now we move on to the real reason we all love worms, the multiplayer.

Due to its turn-based system, worms is one of the few PC games that still supports local multiplayer modes, and this is one of its biggest selling points to this day. It’s fun being able to kill your friends in a game, but it’s all the sweeter when you can turn round and rub it in their faces (or is that just me?).

The multiplayer games have a selection of modes. Obviously there is your standard Deathmatch, and added to that are modes such as Fort, Crazy Crates & Rope-Racing.
Fort mode is a test of your long range shooting skills, with each team of worms being put on a separate island. Being unable to swim you have to take the long shots (or, if you’re a skilled player, skim your weapons along the surface of the water) to kill the enemy.
Crazy Crates sets you up with very limited weaponry and regular crate drops. The skill in this game is being good at getting around a map to get to the good crates before the other team does.
Rope Racing is the mode of choice for all those lovers of the Worms ninja ropes. Rather than the aim being to kill the enemy, each team has a single worm and has to use the ninja rope to be the first worm to make it to the finish point.

While I personally think this game should be played in local mode, online multiplayer is also available for those of you who want the option, including both private and ranked matches. However, finding ranked matches can involve a bit of a wait at certain times of the day.

So I guess it’s time for me to draw a conclusion.

Overall, Worms: Reloaded is a fairly solid outing for the franchise. Even though the game is 2D and the gameplay hasn’t really changed all that much since the originals, it doesn’t feel dated at all. Graphics and sound in the game are as interesting and enjoyable as the first time I played the franchise, they have just had their quality enhanced to the standard that modern machines can produce.

There are only a few downsides to this game, the first been the already mentioned AI. Being either absolutely retarded or some kind of physics expert that can make their munitions dance around the battlefield gets frustrating and slightly ruins what is otherwise a solid single player offering.
The other is the camera. For some reasonthe camera seems a lot less controllable than in previous offerings. It always tries to focus on the action on the screen, which for the most part is fine. But if you are trying to look at something else, you do occasionally find yourself fighting it as it tries to refocus itself.

Those two problems aside, I would recommend this outing to anyone that does not already have a 2D PC version of worms. This game is the most refined versions available and is definitely going to provide you with plenty of entertainment.

Oh, and if you want to make the multiplayer even more fun, be sure to check out the Drinking Game I created for Worms. Many nights at university are little more than a blur to me due to playing that game with my housemates. While it was created using an earlier version of worms, it works just as well with reloaded. Check it out Here