Worms Blast

by UBI Soft

Product Features

• Variable modes
• Puzzle-style gaming
• Great characters
• Hilarious humor
• Two-player action

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000640A3
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 22, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,426 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: GameCube

Amazon.com Product Description

In Worms Blast, the player controls one of eight worms while trying to sink his or her opponents' boats in single- or multiplayer matches. Combining familiar weapons such as the holy hand grenade, bazookas, shotguns, and grenades with new additions such as sea-monster attacks, meteor storms, and torpedoes, Worms Blast requires genuine skill and strategy to survive. The series' famed intuitive gameplay and cartoonlike sense of humor ensure the game will appeal to Worms veterans and newcomers alike.

Amazon.co.uk

Worms Blast is not a bad game. It's also not a very good game. In fact, it's possibly the most painfully average and obviously derivative game to be released all year. The regular Worms titles continue to be among the most popular party games around, but this is not a regular Worms title: this is a clone of Bust-a-Move (a.k.a. Puzzle Bobble) with the Worms license unconvincingly plastered on it.

In Bust-a-Move, you shoot multicolored bubbles up at a collection of bubbles as they slowly descend toward you. If you connect bubbles of the same color, they disappear, and your objective is to clear the screen. Worms Blast is essentially the same game--except that you shoot multicolored bullets at colored blocks.

While Worms Blast is pretty much identical to Bust-a-Move, it's not as much fun. Having to move your character back and forth across the screen gets annoying, and the controls--ridiculously simple as they are--still manage to be fiddly and counterintuitive. Unless you have a thing for cartoon invertebrates, there's not much reason to buy Worms Blast. Try Bust-a-Move instead; it's still available, cheaper, and much better. --David Jenkins

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun game but not the best, April 24, 2003

By 

"kyokyle" (Idaho USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Worm's Blast (Video Game)

I liked the worms games and when I saw this game I thought I might check it out. It really is not like the other Worm games at all. It is more like a puzzle game. I like puzzle games so thats why I got this game. The object of the game is to shoot the colored blocks that are above the screen. If you like puzzle games than you might want to get it. But if you like the Worms games don't get this because it is not like a REAL Worms game.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This is not Worms., September 3, 2002

By 

SleepyJD (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Worm's Blast (Video Game)

I give Team 17 credit for trying but this is just garbage. Why would you take an award winning formula and destroy it? Worms World Party was, and still is the best worms game yet, and it had just about zero changes from it's big brother Worms: Armageddon. This is frustrating, childish, and unbelievably retarted. The upcoming worms title, Worms 3, will break the ice and create a whole new gaming world for us all. Wait for it to come out Summer of 2003.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Worm's Blast, March 27, 2002

By 

Jonathan Hallet (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Worm's Blast (Video Game)

Worm's Blast is already out for computer and when I purchased it I expected an newer version of Worms World Party, or Worms Armageddon but it is an entirely different game. Worm's Blast is more of a puzzle game similar to BustAMove, and tetris. You must match the colors of the bricks up while being a selected Worm Character. Not my favorite game but that is just becuase it is not Wormish.!

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