Not only killed the successor warriors of the first 3 of Rayman games, but also make Murphy's promise in Rayman 3 sounds like a trashtalk just like that is the lowest blow to the franchise. Ubisoft stopped caring about the winning boy mascot of theirs could've been the key to their huge success in the future and they just ignored this fact. WHY DID U DO THIS TO US UBISOFT?!?! Words cannot even express how heartbroken I was as a child when I realized they dumped Rayman for eternity. Something that I can never forgive to Ubisoft as I live and so is the bottom tier rating is what this game deserves and nothing more.
S tier game. I love it!
Here comes a quick yet detailed review about pros and cons: Pros: - Fairly cheap and affordable for someone who really enjoyed it. (But I doubt that ever happened to you.) - Useful tutorial which give you basic idea of the game. - Mostly only fun to play with friends and via LAN sessions. (As of you have no other options.) Cons: - Bazooka and Grenade dealing little to no damage compare to everything else you can ONLY use in a building. - Too slow paced to be enjoyable of fair measures as of every event and turn takes like forever. - Mouse controls can be really underwhelming and is making the game unfun when it comes to aim and see where your worms are. - Campaign designed to be almost unbeatable and enemy AI of course usually want to take out your Weapon Factory first so you don't stand a chance against it anyway. - Mainsource of multiplayer using GameSpy which is dead forcing you to use a VPN to play multiplayer at all. - AI sometimes doing really cringy moves ruining the turns for itself and sometimes for you as well. - Collecting stars to build your powerful buildings to access new weapons with them ONLY is an authorized killjoy and it can be done via just destroy the first unstable lowest level tower which holds the entire chain of buildings for you kinda forces you to use better buildings to fortify yourself better and prevent yourself losing important buildings. - Why do you even bother destroy the enemy buildings if you can kill the worms with those weapons and that makes you win easier? Overall: There's just too many problems with this game and mostly all worms games ended up being better than this one. One of my classmates gave me a disc which had this game on it. Was kinda okay for a worms game back then. The idea was really great having buildings to use in battle, but seeing how undeveloped the game itself really ruins most things about it. It cannot be more than 2/5 stars total or just a 3 of a scale of 1 to 10.
I remember when tried playing it on my former classmate disc recently and just didn't work as of massive incompatibility issues and Windows 10's problem solving skills when it comes to compatibility is utterly useless. The itself game offers a deep empire, army, religion magic and territory defense gameplay. For my nostalgia, this game was not as good as I imagined, but for sure a game what you usually pick back up to play it. Here are the pros and cons of what the game really has: Pros: - Maximum compatibility on GoG and nowhere else. Just buy it HERE and HERE ONLY if you want to play it properly! The game really worth it's cost. - Long duration RTS gameplay leading you through history as you micromanaging your resources and important units defending your empire. - Semi-valuable upgrading branch, but really expensive gameplay-wise and sometimes doesn't even worth it. If you want to really upgrade one thing in your army, then it has to be shooters range. Cons: - Getting necessary resources might be really difficult as your empire develops, because you can only recruit a limited amount of townspeople to work for you and there's literally no way of increasing their maximum capacity. - The tutorial just show you what you would learn by yourself anyway, it doesn't really tell you much about what hotkeys you must use for quality of life purposes what I find really underwhelming. - AI usually ambushes you without you having enough time to prepare and is designed for players, who's micromanaging skills are topnotch. For the test measure of your skills in the game you have to play A LOT to know what you are capable of. - There's no advanced scouting your territory besides the stone age given wolves which are running around and they have literally no other purposes just to scout and die to a random enemy he meets. It could've even had something new to use. Overall: It's kind of a 3.5/5 stars of what I would give to the game, but there's no option like that.
What kind of price is that for an old game I can basically get for free anywhere else?! Also Herkules is missing from the ominous "Disney Collection". These two are death sentences to your reputation.
