It includes a review with Kelvin Aston of T17
Go out and buy it now!

Here's the How's It Shaping Up box (I couln't be bothered to type out the rest)
It's Worms and it's still in 2D - that in itself is a great thing. With these new additions though, and the fact that the developer (Yay! That must be Team17!) has embraced online play (WOOOOOOOOOT), it's hard to imagine this being anything other than the greatest Worms game yet.




And ther's also loads of screenies, including one showing quite a few weapons!
It's in a 8x4 grid as shown:
Zook Nade Shotgun Mine Prod Sheep Girder Para
HomingMissile Cluster Uzi Dynamite FirePunch SuperSheep JP rope
*blank* HHG* Boomerang** Magnet? DragonBall BuffaloOfLies?*** Blowtorch Skip
*Blank* Nana *Blank* SentryGun**** Kami *Blank* Drill Tele



The ones with question marks I'm not sure, cuz there either new, obscured or greyed out (delayed). The *blank*s are blank




*It looks a bit like one


**Confirmed in mag/review as well as on weapon panel



***Greyed out so it's really difficult to see


****Confirmed in screenie as well as on weapon panel


New features (I've only skim read so I'll edit this post with more)
Custom Flags
4P RANKED Online Play
New weps (see above)
Multiple worm skin colours
More speech banks and graves (though sadly not custom - yet)
Global Special events which can "completely change the [battle's] outcome" (no more info is revealed)
Download play (still)
Downloadable 1p demo
Six new landscape themes

Online modes:
Fort mode (just like the WA fort game and WWP fort game it seems)
Race mode (like RR, BR etc)
Deathmatches (trad.)








Anyway:
4P RANKED ONLINE PLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!






And I think that judging from the screenies the map will be split accross the 2 screens, meaning that the minimap is gone! Nooooo! The teams are at the top of the top screen, the other HUD at the bottom of the bottom The weapon panel appears on the bottom screen and covers the whole screen (confirmed by seeing HUD at the corner of it)

That sounds great. Online play is the most important feature to me but more weapons and options could make it even better. I never got into rope races but many people love them and if it actually has a race mode, there are going to be some very happy wormers. Fort mode will also be welcome.

I could play WOW2 while waiting for my turn in Worms XBLA :)

Good idea
I've read through and done my last edit until I find some more sources, so it isn't likely to change now.

It's Worms and it's still in 2D - that in itself is a great thing. With these new additions though, and the fact that the developer (Yay! That must be Team17!) has embraced online play (WOOOOOOOOOT), it's hard to imagine this being anything other than the greatest Worms game yet.

The sad thing is I can just imagine ONM printing "(WOOOOOOOOOT)".

I hate ONM. I do. I really, really do. Lots, in fact. My hatred for ONM is only slightly less than the hatred I harbour for Avril Lavigne, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Celine Dion, and Westlife. Honestly, if those musicians went on a tour together I would actually pray for a Horrible Bus Accident. I wouldn't will such a horrid thing upon the ONM staff, though. They can just die in a fire instead.

Nice to see some new information about WOW2 get out, though (stop calling it WoW2, people - it's not a sequel to World of Warcraft).

this version is sounding already better then last one:cool:

Hey, I've just noticed that there doesn't seem to be a surrender

I hate ONM. I do. I really, really do. Lots, in fact. My hatred for ONM is only slightly less than the hatred I harbour for Avril Lavigne, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Celine Dion, and Westlife. Honestly, if those musicians went on a tour together I would actually pray for a Horrible Bus Accident. I wouldn't will such a horrid thing upon the ONM staff, though. They can just die in a fire instead.

Any reason why? Though, it was a lot better when it was NOM :p

Any reason why? Though, it was a lot better when it was NOM :p

No, it wasn't. It was good for a while when it was NMS, but then it went downhill, long before the name-change-every-few-issues period.

Any reason why? Though, it was a lot better when it was NOM :p

Everyone loves Magical Relevant RealVG Article (http://www.realvg.org/display.php?type=articles&id=63).

Speaking of which, I had a quick shuffle through the pages of ONM to find said screenshot when shopping in WHSmith's today. Looks interesting.

Err...RealVG seems to go to a page about HTTP

Fixed. Although if you'd hovered over the link, it would have been trivial to work out what the problem was.

Err...RealVG seems to go to a page about HTTP
Use this link - Paul put one too many http's in it:

http://www.realvg.org/display.php?type=articles&id=63

Has anyone scanned the relevant pages at all? I'd love to have a look.

I could tomorrow if you want

Yes please.

K, I have free time, but I'll have to set it (my scanner) up for Ubuntu, though.

I'll do it now.


K, I've got it working, for some reason the motor sounds different than in windows (no idea why) :p, but I'm trying to find the optimal resolution for it now.


EDIT2: Oh what the hey, I'll email them to you. What's your address?

Oh what the hey again, I uploaded them.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0UZDUCNG - Page 1
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=32UVFPT7 - Page 2

My word, what a horrendously annoying website that is. Took me ages to work out how to download those files.

Really? I thought that a page with just "Type this: [CAPTCHA] [here] [Download]" was simple enough.

Put it up on my host and made them jpeg instead.
Image 1 (http://www.4chan.eu/kscan_0008.jpg)
Image 2 (http://www.4chan.eu/kscan_0005.jpg)

It would be, if it wasn't surrounded by a full screen of assorted distraction.

When I say "ages" I mean "a few seconds". If it takes me a few seconds to find the sole purpose of a page, and then I have to wait another 45 seconds for no discernable reason, then click another link, that is about a minute longer than I would be waiting on, say, Imageshack.

Most people don't linger for a minute on any given website.

Oh what the hey again, I uploaded them.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0UZDUCNG - Page 1
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=32UVFPT7 - Page 2
Use Imageshack for images!
Failing that, use http://host-a.net.

Imageshack = my images were bigger than the limit (just slightly)

I love how ONM talk about Worms Open Warfare DS like it wasn't a festering putred pile of distented monkey vomit. Still, they're optimistic about the sequel (that said, they're optimistic about most things on a Nintendo console, so this really isn't indicative of anything).