Topic: Worms: A Space Oddity Announced for Wii

[mef]

Online multiplayer, unique controls await fans of the classic franchise.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=14315

 Battle Through Space in THQ’s Worms: A Space Oddity for the Wii™    

Challenge Up to Four Friends Anywhere in the World with New, Intuitive Controls Designed Specifically for the Wii Remote™    

AGOURA HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--THQ Inc. (NASDAQ:THQI) today announced Worms: A Space Oddity, the newest iteration of the popular turn-based strategy game, is scheduled for release in spring 2008. Retaining the humor synonymous with the Worms brand, Worms: A Space Oddity marks the franchise debut on the Wii™ with a fresh visual style, new environmental settings, intuitive controls and even more customization options. Players will be closer to the action than ever before, launching attacks through a wide range of gesture-based maneuvers only possible with the Wii Remote™.    

In Worms: A Space Oddity, players will enjoy the ultimate blend of classic Worms game modes and re-invented single-player missions, as well as multiplayer modes that include a host of all-new party games and even more customization options. The game takes advantage of the Wii’s intuitive controls, on-screen hints and the redesigned interface with an in-game help system. Worms: A Space Oddity demonstrates significant visual, technical and design advancement over its predecessors with a new visual style that abandons the traditional drawn approach and replaces it with a distinctive style inspired by classic Sci-Fi looks. The Worms battles take place across six planets, each with its own, unique environments and global events. The online multiplayer experience pits up to four Worms fiends from all over the world against each other.    

Worms: A Space Oddity is being developed by Team17 Software Ltd out of West Yorkshire, UK. Along with this title, two additional titles in the Worms series, Worms: Open Warfare 2 for the Nintendo DS™ and PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system and Worms 2007 for wireless handsets, are scheduled for release this fall.

[planetidiot]

I'm not holding out much hope that this won't be terrible, but it would be a nice surprise if it wasn't.  I don't know how they made the Dreamcast version of Worms so good, and the DS one so god awful.

[BlackNMild2k1]

This will be the game that I need to convince a hesitant friend to atleast try the Wii.
He is a Worms fanatic and we have had some very long play sessions with it on PS2.
So this game better be good, otherwise I might have try harder to convince him.

[Spak-Spang]

I am excited about this game.  I loved Worms on the PC...but if I can play it on my Wii it will be a better party and experience...and Wii Controls for the Weapons are exactly what we need.  Melee Weapons will feel so much greater when I can Whack somebody.  

And then Perhaps Fireballs and uppercuts and be performed classic Street Fighter Style moves.

[Morari]

CENSORED FOR YOUR PROTECTION

[Svevan]

Hopefully this will feature many songs from Bowie's psychedelic/space rock period.

[Shecky]

The 2nd DS Worms comes out soon, that's the title to look out for at the moment...

[planetidiot]

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Originally posted by: Shecky
The 2nd DS Worms comes out soon, that's the title to look out for at the moment...

Maybe they realized the first one was a glitchy unplayable piece of unfinished garbage.  I swear there's more polished homebrew on the DS than that game.