Worms Battlegrounds allows four players to share a single controller! They don’t even have to have their own Xbox Live profiles, either. Good news for local multiplayer fans who haven’t picked up four Xbox One controllers just yet. But B is the fire button and X brings up the menu – those two should really be reversed. Pick Modern and A becomes the jump button, which rocks. Battlegrounds starts out the same way, but also offers a Modern control option. The Xbox Worms games have always suffered from a somewhat unnatural control scheme in which the X button jumps. With a whopping total of 65 weapons and items to choose from, battles will be even more varied 9and crazier) than ever before. New items include the Aqua Pack, Winged Monkey, and Mega Mortar. Initially, you’ll only have access to basic armaments like the bazooka, grenades, and dynamite. Much of the fun in Battlegrounds comes from the humorous arsenal of weapons at your disposal.
Players take turns controlling one of their Worms and trying to kill off as many of the other teams’ Worms as possible. Each player gets a team of four Worms, which now come in four classes: Soldier, Scout, Scientist, and Heavy. Whether battling the CPUs or engaging in 4-player local and online matches, Battlegrounds plays just like every mainline Worms game to come before it. There are even checkpoints now, reducing the frustration of falling into a pit, getting blown up, or otherwise dying. You’ll command a single Worm (or a full team, depending on the level), navigate mazes and platforms, and complete various objectives beyond just killing enemy worms. The actual levels are far more structured than before. The story’s pretty much an excuse to provide wacky intros for each stage and justify the history-based environments, but it does lend Battlegrounds a greater sense of import than previous Worms games. Under the direction of the oddball narrator (who ranges from funny to annoying), players must break into the museum and get the Carrot back. Artifact in-hand, Mesmer and his army of hypnotized Worms have holed up within a museum. The evil Lord Crowley Mesmer has stolen the Stone Carrot, a magical artifact that helped create the Worms World. Worms Battlegrounds (an enhanced port of last year’s PC game Worms: Clan Wars) actually starts out with a mildly cinematic introduction voiced by British actress Katherine Parkinson. Your team competes against one or more AI teams in a series of deathmatches (with occasional puzzle levels or ninja rope challenges breaking things up), but that’s it. Although Worms games tend to feature fairly lengthy single-player campaigns, they don’t usually have a story or much connective tissue holding them together.
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