Generally speaking it's a great game, it's essentially a combination of Worms 3D and Worms 4 Mayhem, featuring most (if not all?) the content from both as well as a lot of new content, so it's pretty much the perfect 3D Worms game. Unfortunately, and I don't know if this is a GOG exclusive issue, but it seems to have framerate issues on higher end monitors. I'm running the game on a 6700XT and a 170 Hz 1440p monitor and I've yet to be able to get anything resembling a smooth framerate, also the refresh rate option in the launcher appears to be broken: - If I set it to 170 Hz the framerate drops to about 60 -70 FPS and is choppy bordering on unplayable. - If I set it to 60 Hz the game appears to be running at 170 FPS but it feels more like 50-ish FPS. From what I've seen people have experienced similar issues on Steam as well, but I haven't been able to find any concrete info on what's causing it. I'll update the review if I do.
Cannot recommend it enough, especially on sale when it's so underpriced you need to have a lawyer present to buy it.
Pros: + Great world design, lots of interiors and open areas both of which are very detailed and interactive. + Good writing, at least for the main quest(s). + Combat is basic but pretty satisfying for the most part. + The original score absolutely slaps. + The weapons and vehicles are very well modeled/animated, to the point where it makes even the latest FPS games look antique. Neutral: ~ The licensed soundtrack is pretty bad, though I think that was intentional given the nature of the game. ~ The driving is pretty bad, cars are very slow and sluggish despite supposedly running on the "super fuel" of the future. However it uses actual simulated physics as opposed to just making every car drive like it's on rails and some aspects like the suspension model are actually quite impressive. Bad: - Buggy, even after so many patches it still gives Bethesda a run for their money. - Very demanding hardware-wise but it never feels like it puts it to good use. - Quest design is linear and aside from the main questlines the rest are fairly generic assassination or fetch quests. Also what few RPG elements it has feel shoehorned in just for the sake of selling it as an RPG. - Character progression is over engineered. - Balancing is non existent, you can mow down a warehouse full of corporate mercs like a school shooter at a day care then get one-shotted on your way out by the crack dealer in the nearby alley. - Vehicle crash physics are also non-existent, in fact the vehicles don't seem to take much damage at all before they explode. - Can't keep playing after the ending, instead the game reloads a checkpoint and rewards you with whatever items were exclusive to the ending you picked, thus ruining both immersion and continuity at the same time. - Marketing pretty much spoiled the entire story. - Hardly any customization aside from the character's appearance. - Half a f***ing hour long credits that can't be skipped, keep in mind this game has like 5 endings.
The fact that they have the nerve to charge 60 EUR for this crap 5 years after release is hilarious to say the least, it wasn't even worth that much at launch. Not even close.
This is aimed mainly at people who already own the original game and are only interested in what the remaster offers on top of that. If you're a new player I strongly suggest looking for another game because this one is absolutely NOT worth 40 EUR whether it's remastered or not. It's one of those mid-2000's games that hasn't aged well at all and the remaster does very little to address that. THE GOOD: - They re-made all the vehicle models from scratch and this was easily the original game's weakest point when it came to visuals. - They also remastered the weapon models and this is one aspect of the visuals they managed to pull off without a fault. The weapons look amazing, they're nice and chunky, the metal looks like metal, etc. THE BAD: - Performance takes a massive hit and the game doesn't look nearly good enough to run worse than GTA5. - The MSAA was replaced with TAA which makes everything look smeared as you'd expect. They did add a sharpening feature that somewhat compensates for this but it's way too subtle to make a big difference. - The water looks notably worse than in the original, - The audio is just as broken and horrible as it was in the original game and this is the one aspect of the original game that needed attention the most. - The volumetric lighting is overpowering, fogs up the city and makes the colors look bleached, especially on clothing and hair. If your character previously wore black or white you'll be surprised to find out that neither of those are an option anymore, only greys. Likewise if your character was previously African then you've just been downgraded to Indian. This isn't social commentary it's just how bad the lighting is. - The facial hair is still just a painted on texture and it looks even worse now because of the aforementioned lighting. - They removed some clothing itens: the TF2 masks, the demo items as well as a few other items that were apparently removed to avoid controversy.controversial.
Not worth writing an in-depth review so here's a summary: POSITIVES: - Good learning curve. - Decent graphics for this price. - Cutesy art style that doesn't go overboard. NEGATIVES: - Difficulty... there isn't any to speak of. You're never in any danger of dying unless you're clumsy enough to fall into the sea and even then there's hardly any penalty for it. In terms of the actual farming/ranching it's more of a grind than anything even remotely challenging. - Traversing the open world is very frustrating, it feels like it's made up of multiple linear levels stitched together. You have the means to traverse the map like you would in most open world games but you will usually be met with an invisible wall forcing you to take pre-determined paths instead. It's very easy to get lost in as you have nothing to help you find your way around apart from an extremely vague map. - Resource gathering very tedious, the game encourages you to travel far for better resources but when you get there your inventory will most likely be full already as you can only carry 4 items at once. - It features many interesting mechanics but none of them seem to really serve a purpose. It has a day/night cycle and you can sleep to skip the night time but there's absolutely no reason to do this as you'll never become exhausted. It also has a market system but given the size of your inventory and the lack of any practical way to store items there's really no raeson not to sell what you have immediately. Honestly though, the biggest deal breaker for me had I known about it would be the fact that the Steam version received free exclusive DLC despite costing less than the GOG version, so technically the GOG version is incomplete. The GOG version also doesn't come with a demo despite the fact that the Steam version does. If there's one thing I can't stand it's when developers show platform bias.
