It really saddens me how the atmosphere in this game is totally lost. Not only because of the soundtracks and videos, but also because of a lot of effects I've seen a trailer which are just removed for no reason.

In "Underwater" there used to be fishes crossing the scenery, and so did some birds in "Nuclear". The cacti in "Desert" used to cast shadows, and there was some light shimmering through the leaves in "Jungle"...
http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt52/Thurbo1/Why1.png?t=1293381110 http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt52/Thurbo1/Why2.png?t=1293381126 http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt52/Thurbo1/Why3.png?t=1293381130 http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt52/Thurbo1/Why4.png?t=1293381135

And that's not all. If you listen closely to the trailer (http://www.youtube.com/user/Team17SoftwareLtd#p/u/26/GG9sYWdA0YQ) you hear specific ambient noises for each theme. They've been removed as well. Actually I just want to know: Why? Just why did you do that? That's incomprehensible.

Could just be a mild case of bullshots: http://www.gamepro.com/article/features/156868/the-truth-behind-doctored-screenshots/

For bullshots, the effects look too contrived and it would have been some hard work to fake effects for a whole trailer. But I can also proof it: Playing a match in Desert, you notice at the beginning of the round the cacti do cast shadows, however this effect only lasts for a very short moment, about a second. Therefore it even crossed my mind the lack of effects was a weird, a very, very weird bug :p

The ambient noises, however, could very well be a bullshot.

I've seen that! Very briefly when starting a desert level, you can see the light and shadows of the cacti in the desert theme untill it instantly vanishes, I'm certain it's another background glitch in the desert theme. I'll point out again that the cactus on the far right is broken, and does not move properly according to its shadow, however that was also apparent even in the first trailer. As well as that triangular ufo I was looking forward to seeing Im guessing was supposed to be an idle sudden death animation (because all worms have 1 health) though I haven't seen it in the psp version... maybe the UFO in the game is a conspiracy as well, like the ones in real life!:p. The ufo is also seen in the Desert Theme intro video

also the chemical theme gained that green smoke animation, the arctic theme lost a sort of white cloud background animation that made it seem more cold and windy.

To me it seems like the first trailer was what the Wii version was supposed to be... I wonder why so many of the apparent things were removed even for wii ware, or why they could not be added when they switched to retail release.

They replaced this cloud in Arctic by... more snow! Meh, I prefered that "cloud", too.

As for the ufo, this Sudden Death animation is still there, only that the searchlights were removed. For whatever reason.

They replaced this cloud in Arctic by... more snow! Meh, I prefered that "cloud", too.

As for the ufo, this Sudden Death animation is still there, only that the searchlights were removed. For whatever reason.

The UFO is still in the wii version? I'll have to check it out, so far the only thing in the psp version is the stealth bomber that crashes.