Kotaku: worms 2: armageddon

This Week On Live Arcade: Worms And The King Of Fighters

Mike Fahey — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:00:00 MDT

Two completely different types of combat hit the Xbox Live Arcade service this week, with Worms 2: Armageddon and The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match.

Worms 2: Armageddon is the sequel to Worms Armageddon, released 10 years ago for the Dreamcast, PC, PlayStation, and Nintendo 64. The gameplay is tried and true: use various weapons to take out the opposing teams' worm soldiers, taking into account trajectory, wind, and the sheer enjoyment of worm killing.

The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match takes The King of Fighters '98, adds a few more characters, and kicks the whole thing up a notch with Xbox Live support for a little 1-on-1 action. Sure, The King of Fighters XII comes out in a month, but this one has Mai in it.

Both games will be available early Wednesday morning for 800 Microsoft points apiece.

Worms 2: Armageddon Crawls To Live Arcade Next Week

Mike Fahey — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:00:00 MDT

When Team 17 tells us that a game is coming out "real soon", they mean real soon, with the proper sequel to 1991's Worms Armageddon hitting Xbox Live Arcade a week from today.

Team 17 passed along the first trailer for the game just week, shooting out a follow-up email afterwards teasing a release date in the very near future. Well that very near future is very near indeed. Seven days separates you from more Worms action than you can bisect cruelly with a stick. In fact, if you go to the original post, you can see that Team 17 updated the YouTube vid with the July 1st release date, making this post completely unnecessary. Forget I said anything. Just go to that post, and dance along with the music.

Worms 2: Armageddon LAUNCH DETAILS! [Team 17's Facebook - Thanks Scott!]

Worms 2: Armageddon Trailer Full Of Armageddonness

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:40:39 MDT

Even more classic Worms-style gameplay is coming to Xbox Live Arcade with Worms 2: Armageddon, a proper numerical sequel to Team17's 1999 classic turn-based strategy game Worms Armageddon.

Worms 2: Armageddon's trailer highlights the changes coming to the XBLA version—and eventually to the PC and Mac—including new vertical levels and other landscape types, all-new weapons and much more. Team17 tells us we can expect the game "soon, real soon," so keep an eye peeled. (We didn't see the game listed under Microsoft's planned "Summer of Arcade" promotion, so hopefully that "real soon" will be sooner than we anticipated.)

Until then, might not be a bad idea to hook up the Dreamcast (or PlayStation or Nintendo 64) to get some Worms Armageddon practice in.