There comes a point in every gamer's life where in they experience the joy of playing a Worms game. Whether your memories of such an event come from childhood, misspent teenage years or a drunken misadventure in the name of nostalgia doesn't matter - Worms appeals to anyone and everyone, and that's exactly why the series is still seeing new releases twenty years after its creation. The strategy series has come a long, long way since the days of the Game Boy where visuals are concerned (where the worms were essentially a black, pixelated line), but the fundamentals remain exactly same today as they did two decades ago. Criticise Team17 for resting on their laurels all you like, but there's never been a need to reinvent, reboot or remake Worms - it's immune to the fads that take hold on the industry as a whole. The weponized Annelida sit on the fringes gaming culture, Holy Bombs at the ready to greet you whenever you decide to return. Playing Worms is like an initiation ceremony into gaming as a whole - never forget it.
Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.
