It isn’t a huge problem, but it’s a strange first impression to go into a game expecting a clean presentation and be met with pixelated opening screens pulled straight from the year 2001. While the battles (the parts that matter most) can now be viewed in 1080p, the title screen and menus are still their old, fuzzy, 4:3 selves. When it happens (or when any Steam notification comes up), the notification window covers a good chunk of the bottom right corner of the screen, where wind velocity and weapon information live. It goes the other way too intentionally taking a screenshot will inadvertently bring up the actions. These don’t come up frequently and there are ways around it, but I have already taken a few errant screenshots because of it.

The Steam integration is a little wonky, since the default screenshot button is F12, which is used in game to select the “Skip Go” and “Surrender” actions. While those are all welcome additions, some feel half-baked or manifest in unexpected ways. Steam features like leaderboards, achievements, and trading cards are all here. Controller support is in for those who are more familiar with the console versions. Resolution can now go as high as 1920×1080. The trailer below does a good job summarizing what is new in this remastered version. Rig: AMD Phenom II X2 555 3.2 GHz, with 4GB of RAM, ATI Radeon HD 5700, Windows 7 64-bit To that end it works, but despite the upgrades it can’t help but feel like an old game with a fresh coat of paint. So now we have Worms World Party Remastered, bringing the wormy strategy up to today’s standards of HD visuals and Steam integration.

Me, I never actually played World Party because I was still spending countless hours on Armageddon. Released as a followup to the almost universally lauded Worms Armageddon, some viewed it as a welcome refinement to a great game while others saw it as a too-same iteration that only served to split the online community. Worms World Party has always been a divisive entry in the long-running series.

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