Posted on: April 3, 2024

Puntolory
Verified ownerGames: 469 Reviews: 5
Close to Perfect, yet still great fun
Worms Ultimate Mayhem is a revised version of Worms 4: Mayhem, one of my favourite childhood games and one that thanks to this new edition I've been going back to due to the geniune enhancements it features. However, it is not perfect by any means: it may have some performance problems on modern PCs that require some tinkering to solve and features some other oddities - between a bug specific to the GOG version (thankfully fixable by running a specific file in the install folder) and non-functional controller support requiring you to use third-party software to map them to k+m. Worms 3D content is included, but only partially, since there are only a portion of multiplayer maps available, with an obligatory sepia filter (removable via the Anniversary patch mod), only one music track from the original game for each map theme and no speech banks. Worms 4 content is also missing since the European language speechbanks are missing and we got one remixed track out of the two present for each map theme in the original. Now, all of this may sound harsh, but honestly I still have to recommend it. WUM is still a strong version of 3D Worms with some geniune improvements at least in my opinion (such as the secondary camera that follows the action while you move your worm during retreat time) that may very well be the reason I go back to this game every now and then. The missing content from past versions is the one thing that sticks out as a problem to me, though this mostly makes me wish that the original Worms 4 and especially Worms 3D (besides content differences, a very different game in gameplay from W4 that deserves to exist on its own) were also available on GOG. Hopefully one day they will. Note: the GOG version lacks online multiplayer. This may be a problem for you, but one advantage is featuring no online achievements; so, if you like to go after those, this version of the game is actually doable and more enjoyable to pick up to 100% compared to the Steam version.
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