New Worms 4 trailer, details

By Ellie Gibson Published 3 June, 2005

Guns. Lots thereof.

A new trailer for Worms 4: Mayhem, due out on PC, PS2 and Xbox this summer, is now available on Eurofiles.

Publisher Codemasters has also revealed some of the new weapons we can expect to see in the game, including our personal favourite - the Inflatable Scouser.

Simply fire him off and he'll wander across the terrain to meet his target worm, before grabbing it, inflating himself and floating up to a set height - or until he collides with something. The Scouser will then explode and the worm will fall, losing some health points if it hits the ground - and all of them if it ends up in drink.

Then there's the Starburst Rocket, which sounds not unlike the excellent Super Sheep of previous games - strap your worm to a rocket, fly him around till he finds a target and then zoom in for a huge explosion that'll blow any nearby enemies sky high.

The Fatkins Strike involves sending a big chubby missile in to cause huge craters and general carnage, while Flood will unleash storm clouds and torrential rains, drowning any worms who are too close to the water.

Poison Arrow explodes into a cloud of poisonous gas, causing worms in the local area to vomit their guts up, and Sentry Gun protects your territory against enemies on the move. Plus there's a Sniper Rifle for picking off opponents from a safe distance.

If all those aren't enough to satisfy your appetite for mass destruction, you can always design and build your own devices in the all-new Weapons Factory.

But don't go thinking you can just invent the atom bomb and be done with it - you only get a certain number of points to divide up between each weapon's specifications. So if you select a Homing feature, for example, you'll have less points to spend on the amount of Damage the weapon causes.

You can design everything from special grenades and guns to tailored air strikes and unique projectiles, and optional components include monkeys, hamsters and buckets of sick. Marvellous.

Worms 4: Mayhem is out on July 29.

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About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • skybluesam86 #1 7 years ago

    Oh how I wish this uni network didn't block BitTorrent!

  • Bhav #2 7 years ago

    According to IGN, the games out 30 JUNE, not 29 July.

    http://pc.i gn.com/objects/724/724207.html

  • TheRealBadabing #3 7 years ago

    Why they don't release one of the original worms with multiplayer on xbox live arcade I will never know.

    Would have thought that was a bit of a no-brainer...

  • QuickBen #4 7 years ago

    ...and the DS is just begging for a 2d version of Worms as well.

  • RealFolkBlues #5 7 years ago


    Indeed, particularly with the onset of a free wi-fi network.
    Edited by 1 at 05/06/05 @ 03:11

  • Dodgymat #6 7 years ago

    Bhav - IGN are out of date, July 29th has been confirmed by the publisher.

    Babading - I second that, I still play W:A online to this day.

    QuickBen - "Worms will come on DS & PSP since thats our franchise" Martyn 'Spadge' Brown, Team17.

    I've got the W4 Xbox Demo from June OXM (UK) & I have to say it plays & feels miles better than W3D/Forts. Quite looking forward to it now.

  • spadge #7 7 years ago

    Worms is coming to DS & PSP. More details & shots will be available later in the year following an official announcement from the publisher... until then nothing more from us :) We believe the hard core people will be happy with the number of dimensions involved, but we're implementing the game how it would work best on those screen sizes.

    Worms 4 (demos available on all formats soon & prior to release) will be released July 29th. I sincerely hope that this doesn't move and with any luck it shouldn't. The feedback we've had on W4 has been great and we look forward to reaction of the demo (btw we will also release an online demo prior to release on PC).

    To answer another question before it arrives; we are not developing Lemmings for NDS. Lemmings is a sony owned IP and we are developing the title for them, for PSP - a NDS version is unlikely to happen and all aspects of this should be discussed with them (Sony) and not Team17.

    Edited by 1 at 05/06/05 @ 19:12

  • crashVoodoo #8 7 years ago

    worms was better in 2d, i loved it on dreamcast although that was before i tried the PC version which shat over it

    it just got unwieldy and cumbersome when it moved to 3d, felt like 3d for 3ds sake, sorry.
    Edited by 1 at 05/06/05 @ 21:53

  • spadge #9 7 years ago

    I can appreciate what you're saying. W4 is a big improvement over Worms3d (which certainly wasn't 3d for 3d's sake - or else we would have succumbed much earlier!). I'd suggest you at least try the demo when you can and see if it doesn't rekindle some good memories for you :)

  • adcworks #10 7 years ago

    I was a fan of Worms until 3D also. Still, I bought the XB Worms 3D and funnily enough I was playing it the other night with my girlfriend. When I asked her if she'd like to play XB (and she doesn't play games) of course Worms appeared to be the friendly option that she could get into. No such luck, she totally switched off after 1 game of attempting to use the controls. She's a smart person but I also find the controls counter-intuitive (esp. the camera rotation) and the lack of 2D aiming aids. I don't buy that you can't figure out a 2D projection of the 3D positions at all.

    Still, looking forward to the demo so I can see how things have come on.

  • spadge #11 7 years ago

    Hi there,

    The controls for the camera have been hugely improved for W4, as has the game cam. With regards to 2d aiming aids, we tried quite a few of these during development and none really seemed to benefit the game at all. Things are improved hugely in Worms4 due to the new ground tech thats used, the maps are larger and also the wind is far, far less brutal. Combine this with better cameras, controls and more forgiving mechanisms and it all feels much more comfortable.

    There is still some skill involved in a number of the weapons (thrown grenades and rope) but we didn't believe that the total eradication of skill was necessary :)

    I think a demo was on OXM recently.

  • adcworks #12 7 years ago

    cool, well i will certainly check out the demo and perhaps run it past the girlfriend and see if she'll play with me again. worms that is.