![]() The new classes freshen things up nicely, and are joined by the usual wide array of moves, weapons and gadgets, many of which have a double function in that they destroy your opponents while expertly tickling your funny bone. Heavy and Scout Worms are exact opposites – the former being powerful, durable yet relatively immobile, the latter being nimble and fast moving, yet as weak as a kitten. Soldiers are your reliable all-rounders, Scientists can generate more sophisticated weapons and also boost your team’s health on each turn. Four types of Worm are introduced for you to play around with – each with their own foibles, and their own strengths and weaknesses. ![]() Worms veterans would probably have liked an option to skip this and launch straight into the action however, it does a grand job for newcomers, and like the rest of the game the narration from Matt Berry, playing the role of a faux wildlife documentary maker, gives everything a tremendous comedy bent. Proceedings begin with a comprehensive, if lengthy, tutorial. The cartoon art style, which has remained pretty much a constant factor across the years and looks sharp, bright and cheerful on the OLED, belies a surprisingly deep strategic experience, which is helped along this time around with some nice new additions and platform-specific bells and whistles. Time-honoured turn-based artillery combat is once again the order of the day, with splendidly old-school anthropomorphic worms doing battle within an all-new engine, on a 2D plane with 3D backdrops, or what is known in the trade as 2.5D. It has been home to some of the best versions of other multiplatform titles – check out Rayman Origins or Virtue’s Last Reward for proof – and now it can rightfully claim to be the best place to play at being violent invertebrates, thanks to this great version of Worms Revolution. The Vita doesn’t trade in throwaway ports and shovelware, however. Nearly two decades of total wormage have passed, and so the announcement of yet another version – this time a Vita port of a year-old instalment – had some folk scratching their heads and asking: “Do we really need another one?”. You can check out the full list of compatible Vita games right here.Born in 1995, I am comfortably old enough to be Worms’ father, if the long running Team 17 franchise were a person, which it is not. While the PS TV will support nearly 700 titles available at launch, it doesn’t play everything. ![]() There, the device will retail for £85/€100 and include a voucher for three digital Vita games: Worms Revolution Extreme, Velocity Ultra and OlliOlli. The device will launch in Europe one month later, crossing the pond on November 14. It comes with 1GB of built-in storage out of the box, meaning that while a pricey memory card isn’t necessarily required, folks won’t be able to get too far without one. ![]() PS TV will be available standalone for $100 or as part of a $140 bundle, including an 8GB memory card, The LEGO Movie Videogame and a DualShock 3 controller. The new set-top box plays a selection of Vita games, PSP titles, PS One Classics, PS3 games via PlayStation Now, and can stream PS4 content via Remote Play. PlayStation TV launches across North America starting October 14, Sony announced today. ![]()
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