Worms: Open Warfare cover art

Game entry

Worms: Open Warfare

2006 · Strategy · PSP, Nintendo DS · THQ

Worms: Open Warfare is listed in the GameForever catalogue but not in the duel pool: this game is never offered for a vote, its 1,500 points are never at stake and it does not appear in the world ranking. Its entry and its debate stay open.

World rank

ELO score

1,500

Wins

Duels played

0

The duel pool gathers the best-known titles of the catalogue, cover included, so that every match-up stays meaningful. It is recalculated with every catalogue update: this game may join it later. How a game enters the duels →

About Worms: Open Warfare

Worms: Open Warfare is an artillery strategy game.[2] It was developed by Team17 and published by THQ for the PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS.[1] There are several other Worms video games in the Worms series. The game marked Team17's return to its 2D roots.[2] The game spawned a sequel, Worms: Open Warfare 2, which is also available on Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable.

In Worms: Open Warfare, the player takes control of an army of worms. The goal of the game is to defeat the opposing army through reducing the health points of enemy worms using various types of weaponry while avoiding friendly fire and other obstacles. The weapons and gadgets you use in battle include grenades, homing missiles, bazookas, cluster bombs, banana bombs (a Worms staple), dynamite, air strikes, shotguns, and many more. You can also choose from a variety of settings to battle in and make your own schemes and teams.
The game is played in rounds with each worm starting with 100 hit points. Each team takes turns controlling one of their worms. The player is usually allocated 60 seconds per turn to move their worm around the battlefield and attack the opponent worms, though this time limit is customisable when playing non-career games. Only one attack is allowed per turn.
In addition to timing individual player turns, each round has a 20-minute time limit. If the round timer runs down to 0:00 before a team claims victory, every worm's HP drops to 1, creating a sudden death scenario. During the course of a round, crates containing health or weapons will occasionally drop and the water level will rise.

ELO progression

This game does not take part in duels: its score never moves, so there is no history to plot.

Head-to-head

As this game is never offered in duels, it has no match-up to its name.

In the same genre

All Strategy games →
  1. 29 Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings1999 · Strategy 1,897
  2. 30 Dungeon Keeper1997 · Strategy 1,896
  3. 45 StarCraft1998 · Strategy 1,882
  4. 60 Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia1999 · Strategy 1,862
  5. 66 Sid Meier's Civilization V2010 · Strategy 1,857

Keep exploring

The community

The debate

0 comments

Posting requires an account: log in or sign up.

The debate is yours to open.

Nobody has spoken up about this game yet. Say what it's worth, and the thread starts here.

See the whole Worms: Open Warfare debate →