Worms: A Space Oddity (Wii, 2008)

Hi! this is my first review. It is for team17's Worms: a space oddity. Worms: A space oddity is the latest in a long running series of worm games. It is a turn based strategy game with deformable landscape, 10 weapons, 5 different tools, randomly generated landscapes and, of course, cute little worms intent on killing each other. All these things keep this game fresh for a large number of game plays. While retaining the essence of all the previous games, it lost several key aspects of the previous titles in the series, such as only a fraction of the weapons provided in the previous games and a comparatively short single player mode, with 36 missions. This is, of course, still a lot of missions, but the game play of the missions themselves is quite unsatisfying with mostly modified cpus as your enemy. Another thing about the single player missions I found unsatisfying is that, in order to beat some particular missions, you have to find parts of a space ship usually buried under landscape. This is all just fine, but the only way to get to them is, of course, by blowing up the landscape. If you blow the landscape too close, the spaceship part explodes, forcing you to redo the entire mission. Each mission takes approximately 10-20 minutes and having to redo them is frustrating as heck. Moving on, there are six different minigames that are both fun and entertaining. However, only one minigame is available initially with the other five being unlocked through single player mode, making five of the minigames quite unaccessible to casual gamers. Moving on to other aspects of the game, I found blowing up enemy worms with a complex arsenal quite satisfying, with the added bonus of ticking of my sister as I do it. Also, creating my own landscape with personalized weapons was a quite satisfying to me. However, with only limited customization of my own worms, the possibility of a strong customization was stopped short. As I said before, the essence of the previous worm games is still present, making this game great for casual gamers. If you are a dedicated worms fan, I recommend Worms 3d for the gamecube, or, if you have a pc, worms4 and worms armageddon/world party. Thanks for reading!