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" Release Date: May 30 (Europe), June 3 (North America) Platforms available on: PS4, Xbox One Developer: Team 17 Publisher: Team 17 Genre: Strategy Not only is Worms Battlegrounds the series&amp;#039; first outing on Xbox One and PS4, but it&amp;#039;s the biggest entry in the franchise to date, with more weapons and single-player content than ever before. There is a strong sense of deja vu, however, with in-game action that&amp;#039;s similar to every other Worms game dating all the way back to the 90s original. As such, battles once again takes place on a 2D playing field, with teams of murderous worms taking it in turns to blow each other into oblivion. The lack of change isn&amp;#039;t necessarily a bad thing if you&amp;#039;ve been away from the franchise for a while, but long-time fans will find it hard to get excited about a game with so few additions.  The simple pick up and play game style is part of the Worms charm, of course, but there are also one or two signs that the series is getting a little long in the tooth. The visuals, for example, are bright, colourful and smooth, but hardly befitting of a next-gen console.  Enemy intelligence is much less of an issue in multiplayer, which is where the game really shines.  There are also a few too many occasions where it&amp;#039;s hard to tell where the foreground ends and background begins, making it difficult to judge where to jump and fire weapons. Speaking of jumping, the way units move and leap is slow and imprecise, making platforming sections a little frustrating.  Enemy soldiers, meanwhile, flit between master tacticians with perfect aim, to witless worms without a clue. It&amp;#039;s a tad inconsistent. Enemy intelligence is much less of an issue in multiplayer, which is where the game really shines. Players can participate in classic team-based deathmatches, create and join clans, or attempt to destroy enemy forts while defending bases of their own. Games against human opposition naturally feel much more tense, with online opponents adopting different strategies, either playing a cautious game or acting with reckless abandon.   When human opponents do make mistakes, you tend to feel a sense of relief and a renewed feeling of hope, whereas computer errors feel like a cheap get out of jail card. It&amp;#039;s perhaps even more enjoyable in local multiplayer where you can taunt your opponent and laugh at their mistakes. Just remember, what goes around, comes around. Disappointingly, while there is a level editor, it&amp;#039;s difficult to create anything that really stands out from the options already available. It doesn&amp;#039;t allow for the same creative freedom as level editors in games like Trials Fusion or LittleBigPlanet, but it does at least add an extra level of replayability.  Players can be much more creative customising worms and clans, giving each unit funny names, outfits and best of all voices, which you&amp;#039;ll hear through the DualShock 4 controller. The Touchpad, meanwhile, works well for quickly selecting weapons, while the light bar changes colour depending on your unit&amp;#039;s health, which is another nice feature.  It&amp;#039;s perhaps even more enjoyable in local multiplayer where you can taunt your opponent and laugh at their mistakes.  Team 17 has once again insisted on a single-player mode, which isn&amp;#039;t nearly as much fun as multiplayer, but not a bad place to start if you&amp;#039;re a newcomer to the series.  Both the nonsensical story and &amp;#039;Worms Ops&amp;#039; missions introduce players to the various weapons and skills needed for multiplayer, with one or two of the later levels providing a real challenge.  The story, which is narrated by The IT Crowd&amp;#039;s Katherine Parkinson, is predictably nonsensical, although the straight delivery of some of the more outlandish lines will make you chuckle. With weapons like exploding sheep and cows, concrete donkeys and poisonous Whoopsie Cushions, however, the in-game action is where Worms Battlegrounds is at its funniest. Worms Battlegrounds continues to impress in multiplayer, offering more of the same team-based battles and outrageous weapons. But i&amp;#039;s not the most unique or exciting Worms release, and you&amp;#039;d be hard pressed to pick it out of a lineup.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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