Product Description

Worms 4: Mayhem is returns to the series' roots, and our brave invertebrates are back to knock ten shades of hell out of each other in open arenas.

With players controlling the worms in single player or 4-player team games, everyone's armed with a massive variety of wild weapons, as ingenious as they are incendiary.

And for the first time in any Worms game, you can let your imagination run riot and create your own weapons! Using a genius device, called Weapons Factory, you'll be able to create your own weapon and enjoy the freedom to annihilate your opponents in your own unique way. You want to make Exploding Chickens or Toilet Bombs? You got it.

The worms' armoury of brilliantly conceived classic weapons return and is built on with even more devilish devices. Plus, prepare to cause chaos and humiliate your enemy with a host of new weapons that create new strategies and gameplay possibilities including the Poison Arrow, Sentry Gun, Tail Nail and the Bovine Blitz, which unleashes a bombing raid of cows.

The customisation options don't stop at crafting new weapons. Another first is the ability to customise your worms, choosing their hair, hands, faces, glasses and dying words--all with Worms trademark humour.

The multiplayer mayhem and single-player shenanigans are spread over five themed zones--Jurassic, Camelot, Arabian, Construction and Wild West--and, throughout the enlarged landscapes, the entirely destructible scenery is back with even greater effect.

In single-player modes there's even more beyond the day-to-day business of destroying worms. Through the 25 missions, you're also charged with objectives such as recovering items or smashing scenery. All the single-player maps are available to play in multiplayer mode, along with a further set of 20 multiplayer-specific maps.

With bold levels, an improved 3D camera and animation system, a stunning arsenal delivering comedy kabooms, the loveable, customisable, yet entirely destructible, worms are back in force.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4391 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Codemasters
• Released on: 2005-08-05
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows 2000
• Number of items: 1

Customer Reviews

Worms 4: Bring the pain
If this is the first time you've heard of Worms then you need to re-assess yourself. Back in the heyday when the original was released, it created the term "Gamer" for a good deal of us. The mere fact that such cute things could interact with one another in a most violent fashion was indeed strange but not at all unwelcome.
It'd be hard to find a copy of this game today, but if you have some emulators, go and find the game and give it a go. Not just to be retro, but to educate yourself in the evolution of a particular game style.

Which brings us to Worms 4: Mayhem.

Firstly, I must voice my complete and utter disappointment with Worms 3d and Worms Forts: Under Siege. Those games were very poorly balanced and there were a great deal of flaws that made the Worms genre unbearable for a time. But now, Team 17 has gotten a hold of their design issues and eradicated a lot of problems.
First off, the control style is very easy to get used to (Wind, Bazookas etc) and you have an easily understandable tutorial if you're new to the game which means you can start blowing everything up at your will.
The games see's many classic weapons return in their cartoony design style, so admittedly it's hard to take the game seriously, but it's more than fun.
New weapons include the strange "Inflatable Scouser" whereby you release a Scouser from your grip and he wanders around until he walks into an enemy, then he proceeds to eat him, then inflates himself, floats into the sky (very high...) and explodes, releasing the worm to fall to his death.
As for the story of the game itself, your bespoke team is the class of "The Professor" who decides to take your team on a field trip through time which goes awry.
The flying time machine breaks and the course of the game is about your team trying to get back to the present. The story is actually really stupid, but its the gameplay that makes it worthy of playing. The turn based blow each other to hell style of play is tried and true, and it makes a glorious comeback here.

The A.I is extremely well balanced. Depending on the difficulty you set a team to in a Deathmatch is quite literally believable. With lower level worms throwing grenades or even dynamite to their feet, whilst the maximum level worms will kill your whole team within barely a few turns. So you can measure yourself against an excellent system depending on how your feeling.
For those of you that know, Worms Armageddon was a very successful title in the Worms series. But one thing that people seemed to want more than anything was a weapons factory. I.E Create your own guns. Someone did actually create such a mod for Worms Armageddon, I think it was called the Worms Tinker...whatever it was, Team 17 got the message and have put a factory into the game that allows you to customise your own destruction through either a thrown weapon, an airstrike or a launched weapon. There are a great deal of possible combinations, so you are quite literally spoilt for choice.

If you don't like the idea of story play and want instant action, Deathmatch does just that. Select your teams, select your rules and if you want it extra stupid, then behold the Wormpot! This nice little invention allows you to modify other rules of the game to hilarious effects. Some of these include "Low Gravity", "Double Damage", "Fast Walk" and a whole host of others. The ones I mentioned are the ones I use in most matches as I can guarantee laughter, no matter your age.
Maps can be generated randomly or you can use presets built on or maps you can unlock from the single player, so again, choice isn't limited.

Alternatively, if fighting real people is your game, then plug it in and play on-line! That has to be the most fun I've had in a long time. Not just for the killing or destruction, but for learning brand new tricks and moves that allow you to massively reduce the abilities and effectiveness of the opposing teams. Simply fight and learn.

I've given the pointers that make it fun, so I recommend you try it...very much so. This game doesn't get five stars because of the cartoony styler of the game. If there was a complete remake with gore, better models and better voices...possibly even human teams, then this game would bring the world to its knees.

Go now and buy!

good fun but stick with all 2d worms games
worms has always been a fun game, but if you want the best fun from a worms game get a 2d one as the 3d ones are fun but seem to lack class and major enjoyment. The voice banks are pretty dull and some of the classic wepons are missing. So if you want a worms game with a lot of differnt options then get this other wise stick to a 2d worms game which is alot more fun.

OK but a bit easy
A brilliant game with lot of new guns and gadgets. But the story mode is a bit easy. I completed it in about two and a half weeks. However it is really good. ENJOY!!!!!!!