Worms Battlegrounds Critic Reviews

Worms Battlegrounds is a fun game that can be enjoyed solo or when playing against others. The core gameplay that made earlier Worms titles so great is here, but with many refinement added to it.

All eventualities considered it's a matter of refinement rather than revolution for PlayStation's best-loved worm-based series, with developer Team17 tinkering and toying to make Worms Battlegrounds the most definitive entry in the series to date.

Worms hits the next generation with a good game, as fun as always and with a new clan system that expand its online features. However, the formula doesn't seem to evolve, so maybe the series deserves a rest.

If you don’t like the series this won’t convert you, but if you do, well, you already know what you’re getting.

If you are new to the Worms series, or if you have done away with any of your previous generation consoles, then Battlegrounds is a great place to start, or update to. However, if you are still playing older iterations, it doesn’t really offer enough to warrant you moving on.

Strictly on its own merits, Worms Battlegrounds is a fine game. However, weak graphics and a lack of technical innovation really hurt the experience.

Technically sure-footed and still a wonderful multiplayer experience. But overpriced and more rehashed than a Cheech and Chong movie sequel.

Listen, it’s a Worms game. It’s the same as every other Worms game. It has exploding sheep and comedy regional accents. That’s the joke, take it or leave it.

This is a competent game, but it’s barely a refinement of a release that you’ve almost certainly already played.

Worms Battlegrounds continues to impress in multiplayer, offering more of the same team-based battles and outrageous weapons. But it's not the most unique or exciting Worms release, and you'd be hard pressed to pick it out of a lineup

The next-gen debut of the beloved Worms by Team 17 can be fun especially if you try the multiplayer modes. Besides that there's nothing here that you haven't seen or played before.

If the game left less to chance, perhaps we'd be somewhat more ready to join their ranks.

Team 17 took a simple idea, blowing up enemy worms named after your mates with an arsenal of ridiculous weaponry, and turned it into one of the most iconic and fun memories in gaming. But that was 1995 and here we are in 2014 realising that not much has changed in nearly two decades.

Not much has happened over the twenty years that this series has been active and the latest installment offers the same entertainment multiplayer that we have been used to. Worms Battleground feels a bit old from the beginning, mainly because of the lack of new content together with some problems that should’ve been fixed by now.

Worms Battlegrounds' shot goes wide. Clearly. It never takes the advantage from the power of Xbox One and PS4, and even makes us nostalgic of the old Worms. That would be forgivable if the game had avoided some technical issues in the collisions and the AI. It's still fun when you play with your mates though.

That those thrills are buried beneath so much frustration, however, is utter madness.