This game has built on the aspects that players disliked about the move to 3D and made the funnest game so far.
The game stays true to all the others, keeping the same theme and originality. The key differences are the customisation to weaponry and characters, which allows a lot of distinction over Internet play.
The graphics and sound are in these games, key. The graphics stay the same cartoony, wacky style the series have always had and needed, but more importantly the sound and speech is as hilarious as ever. The variety stays the same, and it all fits in with being able to add clothing to your worms, as you can mix or match sound banks to themes.
The gameplay is much the same as it always would, with all the different areas. The game still has missions, challenges, excellent multiplayer and everything else from the previous games. Also added onto this game is trophies, in which you have to perform certain tasks to win these. Another factor of the games value and playability is buying new maps, sound banks, customisation and schemes. This requires money, which you can earn by completing missions (and sometimes in a certain time).
However, the main reason for the games value is, as always, wormnet. Despite the fact the latest 3d games have had major problems due to gamespy I feel, covering wormnet with bugs, so much that Worms Forts could barely move online, this game has managed to clear these difficulties and you will rarely have trouble hosting, getting into games or breaking down in the middle of a game. The games online playability returns in this game, and certainly brings the series back to full strength. Thanks to Team17 deciding to work alongside Codemasters, this is their best game yet. Now all the game needs is a different online host - or even Team17 doing it themselves as for W:A.