07 April 2009

Team17's Worms World Party
Finally Makes Its Long-Awaited Debut On N-Gage

Team17's Worms World Party, the highly-anticipated multiplayer online game has just gone live and is available for download within the N-Gage application.

As usually, all you have to do is navigate to the Showroom tab, select 'Update Now' and it should appear at the head of the available games list. Alternately you can get it from the game's website, where it should be available within the next few hours.

Already a huge international gaming success in the PC and console market, the just released N-gage version of the game retains the wacky gameplay, great sound effects and eye-popping graphics.

Game is massively updated from its original, award-winning N-Gage version and includes vibrant graphics allowing the player to visualize enemy terrain, while retaining all of the functionality in a reduced size.

With N-Gage's enhanced 3D gaming capabilities, Worms World Party levels sport a slick new look including the much-loved, hilarious Worm animations.

New for this outing is the addition of the zany Worms voice taunts which really bring the game to life. Worms World Party features six level themes inspired by the best of the Worms series featuring the hot lava fields of hell, the freezing ice caverns, an arid desert, pirate islands, alien space worlds and tribal rock environments. Fans will also enjoy all the classic weapons, including the Super Sheep and the much fabled Holy Hand-Grenade.

On N-Gage Arena, up to four players can compete with one another across the globe with online death-match gaming. Online options will include matchmaking to help easily find people to play, a friends list and a high-score leaderboard.

Worms World Party also takes advantage of the new N-Gage Points feature that rewards skilful players for in-game achievements such as battling enemies and retaining all their Worm crew, or blasting multiple adversary Worms in a single move.

Adam Comiskey - International VP THQ Wireless commented, "Worms has always been a great success on mobile devices and the N-Gage technology has allowed us to produce the most advanced, faithful and visually impressive mobile edition of Worms to date."

"Worms is an excellent fit with the new N-Gage service," added Gregg Sauter, Director of 3rd party publishing, Nokia. "N-Gage is all about fun games that are easy to pick up and hard to put down - which is the Worms experience in a nutshell."