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Hotseat multiplayer won't get hotter than this!

Worms 2, the ultimate hotseat party game loaded with wacky action and cartoon violence, is now available on GOG.com for only $5.99.

So, you think that war never changes, huh? Wrong! This war is different. This war is wacky. This war lets you weaponize bananas, sheep, little old ladies, and priceless Ming vases. This war isn't fought to gain territories--in fact, here the terrain very often gets completely obliterated in the course of battle. This war demands that you forget everything you know about tactics and just flip the crazy switch!. This war isn't won by having a stronger moral backbone--in fact, none of the combatants has any sort of backbone to speak of. This is the war of the WORMS.

Worms 2 puts you in command of a small platoon of war-hardened worms with an unspeakable arsenal of deranged, but deadly, weapons at their disposal. Your goal is to eliminate the opposing team (or teams) by any means necessary (this may include the use of the Holy Hand Grenade or Mad Cow launch). The single player campaign provides quite a challenge, but its 45 missions probably won't be enough to prepare you for the unpredictable madness of the hotseat multiplayer, where covering your opponent's eyes becomes a valid way of winning the match. The game comes with a flexible level editor and the ability to customize your team with your very own voice packs, so there's a lot of ways to get even more fun out of wormy warfare. If you're looking for a game to spice up your gaming parties--this is it!

Important notice: this version of Worms 2 aims at improving your social life and encourages you to actually meet people in real life by only supporting hotseat multiplayer mode. That's correct--online multiplayer is disabled, but really: doesn't half the fun in Worms multiplayer come from trolling your opponents by pressing spacebar in the middle of their turn? Sure it does!

Invite some friends over today and blast them into cartoony oblivion in Worms 2, for only $5.99!
Worms 2 was the first PC game I ever got; even got the original package and the game somewhere lying around still. I have some really, really fond memories of the game and it's the sole reason I really became a Worm-fanatic. It's a damn shame the online multiplayer's disabled though in this version...otherwise I guess it would've been an insta-buy. I guess I might still pick it up at some point nevertheless. Meanwhile, wholeheartedly recommended for anyone who's into these kind of games and has enough friends / family to play this game with in hot seat regularly.
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G-Doc: That's pretty much correct. There was no way we could make it work, so we decided to remove this unsupported feature from the game all together. It would be just annoying to see it in the menus, just pointlessly hanging there and mocking you, now wouldn't it?

If anyone felt offended by the humorous way we presented a lack of feature as an actual feature--we're sorry. But in our defense: this game really ROCKS hotseat mode.
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keeveek: Did you cut off LAN functionality too? Why?
We didn't remove the LAN functionaity; it no longer works, despite all of the tech ninja-ry that we could throw at it. I dunno why.
I'm definitely experiencing technical difficulties with this release. It runs just fine at first, but the game hangs itself after any match. Here's a more detailed description of my problem.
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keeveek: Did you cut off LAN functionality too? Why?
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TheEnigmaticT: We didn't remove the LAN functionaity; it no longer works, despite all of the tech ninja-ry that we could throw at it. I dunno why.
It does not work, because of this:
http://www.worms2.com/main.html?page=home&area=news

News #2

Worms using an old version of DirectPlay, which is incompatible with DX9. If you want to get it running again, you have to write a wrapper that catches all the DPlay Calls and translates them in something DX9 can understand (or into something more general like standard UDP (http://code.google.com/p/dpwrapper/)).
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mistermumbles: I'm definitely experiencing technical difficulties with this release. It runs just fine at first, but the game hangs itself after any match. Here's a more detailed description of my problem.
Thats interesting. Because Im on a quadcore 64-bit win7 and my original worms2 cd from back in the day runs fine, with some minor gfx derping but still it runs x)
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TheEnigmaticT: We didn't remove the LAN functionaity; it no longer works, despite all of the tech ninja-ry that we could throw at it. I dunno why.
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Ubivis: It does not work, because of this:
http://www.worms2.com/main.html?page=home&area=news

News #2

Worms using an old version of DirectPlay, which is incompatible with DX9. If you want to get it running again, you have to write a wrapper that catches all the DPlay Calls and translates them in something DX9 can understand (or into something more general like standard UDP (http://code.google.com/p/dpwrapper/)).
There already is a Glide wrapper for 3DFX voodoo enabled games... now you're telling me theres an old directX wrapper? SWEET! ^^
Post edited September 06, 2012 by caffinemasta
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caffinemasta: There already is a Glide wrapper for 3DFX voodoo enabled games... now you're telling me theres an old directX wrapper? SWEET! ^^
unfortunately: no

the developer dropped his work, so someone else has to pick up his work and finish it :)
incoming. This is my favourite worms. The cheesy cut scenes, the music and the worms sheer class. Wishlisted for now but will pick up later.
Great release! This is a classic.
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grviper: So "some features don't work" is now a positive feature?
Now? Bug = feature is very old. I like this image: http://liferaycms.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/bug-feature.jpg?w=630
This game is largely considered the best in the series, and it is good, but my favorite is definitely Worms United, the first one.

Still a great release. GOG is on a winning streak these last two weeks.
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GOG.com: Important notice: this version of Worms 2 aims at improving your social life and encourages you to actually meet people in real life by only supporting hotseat multiplayer mode. That's correct--online multiplayer is disabled, but really: doesn't half the fun in Worms multiplayer come from trolling your opponents by pressing spacebar in the middle of their turn? Sure it does!
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grviper: So "some features don't work" is now a positive feature?
'twas a joke, but it IS true that the hotseat mode kicks ass in Worms.
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einexile: A better question might be why is GOG releasing a game for a publisher which has taken down its servers but declined to make the software available for players to host? This was a harmless enough act in Worms 2's case, but it's an insidious strategy in the industry today, and in the long run it threatens the whole idea of classic gaming.

The rolling obsolescence of yearly iterations we've been seeing for some time at EA Sports is fast becoming a major long-term strategy for publishers of all types of game, and will someday render thousands of games unplayable forever. The only word that really captures what these people have planned is arson, but perhaps more importantly to you it's a dark cloud on the horizon for GOG.
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keeveek: First of all, mutliplayer in old games is pretty much dead without a need to disable servers.

Secondly, It's a perfectly normal situation that developer is shutting down servers after some time, when it's not affordable anymore.

Third, games are not "forever", expecting to all multiplayer features being functional after 12 years is naivety.

Fourth, some older games (like Worms 2) use old coding and old technology that is no longer supporter in new machines and there's no option to make them functional.

Fifth, I'd rather see games released here without multiplayer working instead of not releasing them at all. GoG informs in advance that mp is not working, so there's no harm.
+1.

keeveek for president. Of Poland.
Post edited September 06, 2012 by RafaelLopez
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RafaelLopez: +1.

keeveek for president. Of Poland.
Soon...!

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m63r56Q6eX1qlax6f.gif
Incooooming!
Great release to kick off the first week of september.
Worms?! I love worms!

Anyone that loves worms should also like Hedgehog, which like to kill each other for free on win/mac/linux systems.
http://www.hedgewars.org/

For anyone that doesn't know if they like killing worms, try killing a hedgehog. Like I said, they die for free.