It is fun playing around with that game, no doubt, but as I already told you I think it's lacking depth and will be boring in a couple of weeks.
Yeah, it needs a lot of support from the community to set up custom leagues, schemes and communities. The +1 or 0 leaderboards aren't particularly appealing.
But meh, I played 16.8 hours on wednesday evening and thursday combined, that has to be a new rec for me
By the way, as for the review part, a few more hinters:
- Single player campaign is very tedious. The puzzles are cool (though simple), so are the races (I know, opinions vary), but most 'missions' are ordinary deathmatch on random levels with increasingly difficult opposition. It's pretty darn boring. I'm also disappointed by the fact that it's just the W2A missions copied to PC.. no new ones I think.
+ The hats, worm skin colour, custom team names and worms and most of all the steam-avatar that gets shown in game (as replacement of a flag) allows you to be creative and make pretty funny teams.
- The maps selected for ranked matches are random.. 60-70% of games played in BnG channel are played in a cave or worse, on a vertical map (worms stuck at the bottom can only shoot zooks up to 1/3 of the map
).
+ The AI is much better than in WA. More random too... enemy worms can do amazing shots (like shotgun you when you're piled with an other enemy worm) or blow themselves up for no reason. I've seen CPU worms use parachute, so yeah, they are much smarter than before. Simple darkside and piling strategies of WA deathmatch are hard to execute this time.
- As much as the voice chat sounds fun it's annoying most of the time cause of the excessive background noise or the echo of the game playing in the background. And yeah, the *coughing* too. There should be an option to put it off automatically, you can only shut it down by altering the options while playing the game.
+ The bananabomb kicks ass. There's about 7 nana's coming out, sometimes one of them lands half a map away from the initial blast! Very random, very explosive.
+ There aren't many noobs online. At least 75% knows how to use the rope fairly properly. Sure, some weapons are still unknown to people (Some dude tried to kill me with a lightning attack, not knowing it actually adds 30 health..
, but the game seems much more newbie-friendly.. you know, it's easy to pick up, while it's much harder for pro's to easily win a game. Most games are pretty darn close.
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