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Jason Dunn
08-12-2003, 01:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pocketgamer.org/showthread.php?s=&postid=17550' target='_blank'>http://www.pocketgamer.org/showthre...s=&postid=17550</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/wwp20.jpg" /><br /><br />"Thanks to the kind people at Hexacto (especially Eva Jando), Mike and I both got a copy of Worms World Party for the Pocket PC to take a sneak peek at. What follows then, can't be called a review, and shouldn't be taken as such. The game is still at least six weeks from release and so any bugs I've found are will most likely be fixed by then. Hopefully, some of the ideas I've suggested will also be implemented too!"<br /><br />Looks like a cool game, albeit very similar to Snails. They're going to have to work hard to beat Snails!
dean_shan
08-12-2003, 01:24 AM
This is why I have been holding off on buying snails. I've been a huge worms fana for years. I love those games.
droppedd
08-12-2003, 01:46 AM
I introduced WWP for PC to my dorm freshman year. There were multiplayer games with 5 or 6 people going constantly on my floor - made it awful hard to get any work done :)
takotchi
08-12-2003, 02:45 AM
It's very similar to Snails because Snails is a rip-off of Worms in the first place. :razzing:
droppedd
08-12-2003, 03:13 AM
yeah - the Worms franchise has been around for quite a long time - since 1995, as a matter of fact, when there wasn't even a Pocket PC OS. There have been several games, including Worms, Worms 2, Worms Armageddon, Worms World Party... and a bunch of others i'm sure i'm forgetting.

But i can't wait - the one thing really missing in Snails is the Super Sheep from WWP :)
beq
08-12-2003, 05:20 AM
Man I love Snails, can't wait for this. I never get tired when you exit the game and some Snail groans "Awww" :D
Certified Optimist
08-12-2003, 07:38 AM
Love Snails, but Worms has got the Ninja rope... (read the review)...
rhmorrison
08-12-2003, 07:57 AM
YES, I have been waiting for this since it was announced over a year ago!
I bought and really like snails but WWP will beat it hands down if the implementation is anything like the PC version and having read the review I would say that it come pretty darn close.
JoshB
08-12-2003, 05:28 PM
The Worms franchise has been around for a while, and Snails is a virtual newborn on the scene, but Scorched Earth is the spiritual Granddaddy of them all! :D

Hmm. How come someone hasn't ported Scorched Earth to the Pocket PC?

JoshB
Llew Silverhand
08-12-2003, 05:33 PM
Closest thing to Scorched Earth is Atomic Cannon. At least that's the closest I have found. Try it out at Atomic Cannon (http://www.isotope244.com/atomic_cannon_pocket.html)

Llew
droppedd
08-12-2003, 06:24 PM
oh man... scorched earth... i loved that game.

Maybe we should get even more old school and ask for a port of that old QBasic gorillas game where you throw the bananas at each other. Now that was a down-to-the-basics grandaddy of Worms.
Kati Compton
08-12-2003, 06:57 PM
The Worms franchise has been around for a while, and Snails is a virtual newborn on the scene, but Scorched Earth is the spiritual Granddaddy of them all! :D
Actually, I thought Artillery Duel pre-dated Scorched Earth.

My husband reviewed the very first Worms game for the Amiga in 1995 or 1996. :)
beq
08-12-2003, 08:50 PM
Closest thing to Scorched Earth is Atomic Cannon. At least that's the closest I have found. Try it out at Atomic Cannon (http://www.isotope244.com/atomic_cannon_pocket.html)
Heh I remember us coding a simplified version of this game back in high school...