December 2nd, 2008 Worms Blast
Worms Blast can give any modern puzzle game a run for its money.
While it’s changed publishers many times over the years, there’s one thing that UK-based developer Team17 has not changed, and that’s been the formula to its critically and commercially successful action strategy series, Worms. Now, after producing no fewer than seven Worms games using the same basic premise, Team17 has applied the fun Worms style to a fast-paced puzzle game. The result is a solid puzzler with an almost impeccable presentation.
Worms Blast has a clean, colorful presentation…
Keep in mind, this is a Worms game only in name and appearance, but is the game itself has much more in common with Taito’s long-running Bust-A-Move puzzle series. In Worms Blast, you’ll be presented with a vertical playfield with an assortment of different-colored blocks along the top and your character floating in a little canoe on the surface of the water below. Armed with a bazooka that produces randomly colored ammunition, you’ll want to launch ammo at blocks that match the color of your blasts, which will make those blocks fall. The control is extraordinarily simple, giving you horizontal movement across the surface of the water, vertical aim with the bazooka, and a single fire button, all of which can be customized on the keyboard to your liking. Unlike in the Bust-A-Move series, which has always maintained a very straightforward puzzle-game goal structure–clear all the blocks and win–the goals in Worms Blast are not always simply to clear the field. In fact, in many of the game’s modes, clearing blocks is the byproduct of other, more-specific goals, and in certain game types it’s actually undesirable to clear them.
Worms Blast features single- and multiplayer modes, both of which can be a lot of fun. In the single-player puzzle mode, you’re presented with a world map, marked with different location points. Traveling from point to point, you meet with a series of challenges, each one unique in its own way. Some are as simple as clearing all the blocks in the field before time runs out, while others charge you with clearing only certain colored blocks or clearing specific blocks using a limited number of shots. Some don’t involve clearing blocks at all, instead giving you the task of avoiding falling objects or dodging a big stone snake that’s slithering around the playfield. The puzzle mode presents you with constantly changing goals and an extreme level of challenge. The difficulty is pretty unforgiving from the beginning and can verge on being keyboard-smashingly frustrating. The game gives you unlimited continues in this mode, but considering its otherwise kid-friendly presentation, it’s doesn’t make much sense that the puzzle mode doesn’t ramp up the difficulty more gradually.
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