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Light up the midsummer sky as WORMS 2: ARMAGEDDON hits Xbox Live Arcade!

WORMS™ has been one of the most successful and consistent Xbox Live titles since it’s launch in March 2007 and now it’s back, bigger and better than ever for this stunning and feature packed new edition.

Worms 2: Armageddon builds upon the fine heritage of the cult 1999 hit ‘Worms Armageddon’ by massively extending the feature set of the original, award-winning WORMS and including the majority of the cult WORMS ARMAGEDDON feature set as well as a raft of exciting new weapons and game content, modes and extensions (many of which featured in the highly rated ‘Open Warfare 2’ editions)

Offering hundreds of hours of replay value, engaging single player campaign, tons of player customisation, laugh-out-loud multiplayer escapades and leaderboard challenges, Worms 2: Armageddon should prove even more popular than the original WORMS for Live Arcade!
Team17 listened hard to the fans response and have delivered in spades, with cult weapons returning, amazing new weapons, incredible customisation of Worms teams (including around 60 voice sets, hats and more), tons of game options, totally new physics & more dynamic play, persistent fire and much, much more.

SENSATIONAL NEW WEAPONS!
• Sentry Gun! Defend your position with this deadly guardian.
• Electro Magnet! Attract or repel deadly metallic explosives with this unique item.
• Bunker Buster! Use this vertical missile to dig out enemy Worms that have snuck away!
• Buffalo Of Lies! The Donkey’s nemesis, this Trojan Buffalo will cause havoc!
• Super Bunker Buster! Devastating below ground charge!

RETURNING CULT FAVOURITES FROM ARMAGEDDON (in addition to all WORMS weapons)
• Super Sheep! Take your fluffy flocking friend to the air! A controllable, flying super sheep!
• Holy Hand Grenade! Hallelujah! The Deity’s weapon of choice!
• Concrete Donkey! It’s back! As mad and wildly destructive as ever!
• Napalm! Love the smell of burning Worms in the morning?
• Petrol Bomb! This cocktail packs a mighty roasting for enemies. Lob one today.
• Armageddon! Not quite the end as we know it, but it could be for your enemies!
• Parachute! A roper’s best friend! Drop huge heights with wind assist…
• Drill! Dig to victory with the pneumatic drill.
• Baseball Bat. Whack out enemy Worms for a home run cheer!
• Earthquake! Can you rumble the opponent?
• Poison Strike! Germ warfare!

NEW GAME FEATURES
• All new high definition, widescreen artwork
• Reworked audio-visuals throughout
• Fire! Persistent fire eats and burns away the landscape. Hot stuff.
• Crazy Crates! Start with basic weapons and shop as you go!
• Fort Mode! Start teams on your own bases.
• Rope Racing mode.
• Massively enhanced & improved game physics & reactions.
• Speedier, more direct gameplay.
• All new high-definition audio (sound effects, music)
• Speak your mind! Massive variety of comedy voice sets with many all new.
• All new crazy achievements.
• All new extensive customisation, Worm Hats, voices, graves, dances, colours, forts!
• Uses NXE Avatars to reflect game status in game!
• All new Single Player adventure combines death matches and puzzles.
• Win tokens in the all-new 30 chapter single player campaign to win prizes in the game SHOP, unlock new landscapes, voices, hats and more.
• Enhanced CPU AI for more challenging single player games.
• Improved online handling, including host migration for network play.
• All new leaderboards and leaderboard objectives.

NEW GAMEPLAY LEVELS
• 5 all new landscapes graphical types modelled on the original Armageddon style. Battle in Medieval England, Cheese Moon, Construction site and more.
• 130 base landscape styles (compared to just six on original) for diverse play levels.
• Vertical Levels! Play on tall, narrow strips or caverns as well as traditional ‘wide’ levels.
• Mix combinations of landscape type, style, your own game rules and more to create thousands of possible levels and hundreds, if not thousands of hours of replay value.


WORMS 2: ARMAGEDDON launches on Wednesday 1st of July, at an amazing value of 800 MSP.
Just wanted to point this out:
• 5 all new landscapes graphical types modelled on the original Armageddon style. Battle in Medieval England, Cheese Moon, Construction site and more.
Cheese Moon
YEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!

Also, Steam release for PC "later this year", supposedly.

800 points!???

Less than a week left?

Wootage.

I cannot believe this games price.

Figures that the day after I spend my MS points the release date is given. :mad:

"Rope Racing mode"....that tottallly conviced me.

So will the rope races be on bigger maps or within smaller spaces?

How much money/effort is 800 MSPoints equivalent to?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Points

About $10 USD to $15 USD depending on which country you are in.

Oh my god, in 1 Weak already???

But what about the damn pc version :( Later this year....they said summer! So how about July-August max.? :D

Wow, only 800 points?! This was one of my childhood favourite games. Can't wait! Anyone know how many achievements will be on this? It's such a huge game that the regular 200 (250?) seems like a right waste.

12 achievements.

130 base landscape styles (compared to just six on original) for diverse play levels.


wat

I must be reading this wrong. I thought base landscape styles meant like, Cheese, Medieval, Snow, et cetera. But obviously not, because 130 would be a ridiculous amount (Not that anyone would complain of course :D).

Or does it mean like, what shape the maps are? Like in W:A, you had "fort" islands, big islands, low islands, two-layered caverns, big wide caverns, et cetera? 130 is still a lot though.

Anyhow, looks like good stuff. Depending on the price, I may find it hard to resist nabbing it when it comes out on Steam!

Maybe they meant 13?

Will it also be released in the uk on the 1st

It's on XBLA, so I presume so.

SENSATIONAL NEW WEAPONS!
• Sentry Gun! Defend your position with this deadly guardian.
• Electro Magnet! Attract or repel deadly metallic explosives with this unique item.
• Bunker Buster! Use this vertical missile to dig out enemy Worms that have snuck away!
• Buffalo Of Lies! The Donkey’s nemesis, this Trojan Buffalo will cause havoc!
• Super Bunker Buster! Devastating below ground charge!


Aren't these weapons just returning from previous games?

A landscape style is a rough, blocked out map of how the map is going to look like. Then it uses that random number to generate the land around it.

The latter of your options is the answer.

Fort islands, big islands, low islands, two-layered caverns, big wide caverns.
All landscape types.

It's probably 13, but 130 would be epic.

You'd think they'd run out of shapes. Unless the maps are absolutely massive and ridiculously specific in their placement of the base block things. Which would make it silly.

Aren't these weapons just returning from previous games?



Yes, but they weren't in the original Worms for XBLA.

I'm glad I bought a 1600 point card a few days ago, I have 800 left, now I know what I'm gonna spend it on.

P.S I gotta play Worms XBLA more before everybody switches over to Worms 2.

10 bucks is a steal, and XBLA is the perfect first platform due to not having the rampant piracy of PC.

It's coming out on PC as well, though. What do we do about the rampant piracy then?

It's coming out on PC as well, though. What do we do about the rampant piracy then?Arr, they be stealing the booty.

i will buy this asap.

worms rlz...

it's so funny play it with friends.

and now with more weapons... cool.

Yes, but they weren't in the original Worms for XBLA.

Neither were the other weapons on this list.