Worms Headed to Xbox Live Arcade?
Oh. God. Yes. The 2D Worms games have been among some of my favorite ever, and now it looks like they’re making their way to XLA. Does this indicate the presence of an omnipotent, guiding hand? We can’t rule it out. Stolen shamelessly from Gaming 360:
“Actually, MS did contact us about this last year and there have been forward moving discussions. We do see it as a pivotal and perhaps ideal place for the series to land, a view shared by various XB360 Live Arcade planning folks.
However, for one reason and another (to be honest, mainly our obligations with PSP/DS) the development didn’t happen (actually we were on the XBLA dev list around E3 time) but now that we’ve experienced just how awesome XB Live is on 360, we’ve resurrected the conversations. I wouldn’t expect it anytime shortly (and it won’t be a quick port of Armageddon etc) but it is on the agenda.
Also, if it did make it, it’d be a 2D version with a lot of downloadable content - which is something Live Arcade is very cool about.”
Marvelous. What XLA needs now is some turtles. I was thinking mutant ones, preferably between the ages of 13 and 19. If there’s time left over, make them ninjas.
January 17th, 2006 at 11:00 am
aaaaaaayyyyyyyiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
More XLA content!!!!
C’mon guys, where’s Defender dammit!?!?!?!
January 17th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
honestly, i wish they’d just port armageddon (and ditto goes for the DS/PSP versions, except, y’know, make the control schemes inventive and logical for their respectively platforms), as no other worms game was nearly as perfect.
January 27th, 2006 at 12:55 am
3-D worms?
I dunno… I just want my Armageddon back.
January 27th, 2006 at 12:59 am
hm….. I may get a XBox if TMNT were to be included….. but you’d have to contact whoever has the license to the ninja Fab Four right now first. Gotta keep the lawyers happy, y’know….. ;)
January 27th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
Funny, I’ve actually been playing Worms World Party with my students during lunch. I can’t seem to get Armageddon to run on my Athlon 64 lappy, but World Party runs fine.
February 14th, 2006 at 8:17 am
I have to agree with Alex in that an online, DS version of worms would be perfect. The stylus would be perfect for it. This would be the original of course, none of the 3d nonesence
August 19th, 2006 at 10:06 am
I have Worms for NDS and it sucks. With the tocuhscreen they could have made that game awesome - dragging back catapults etc - also graphics are a bit poo. I’m trying to find an XBOX homebrew port of Worms anything or to run it on my PS emulator for xbox. There is no game as ‘party’ friendly as worms!