Worms Clan Wars

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Worms Clan Wars
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Developer(s) Team17
Publisher(s) Team17
Series Worms
Platform(s) Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Release15 August 2013 [1]
Genre(s) Artillery, strategy
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Worms Clan Wars is an artillery turn-based tactics game developed by Team17 and is part of the Worms series. It was released on Windows on August 15, 2013, but is now also available on Mac OS X and Linux.

Contents

A console port, Worms Battlegrounds , was released the following year.[ citation needed ]

Plot

Similar to earlier Worms games, the single player campaign features twenty-five missions across five environments: Prehistoric, Viking, Inca, Feudal Japan and the Industrial Revolution. The campaign story focuses on a character named Tara Pinkle (voiced by Katherine Parkinson), who serves as the game's narrator, as well as providing missions for the team. In addition to campaign mode, the game also features ten Worm Ops missions that feature time attack modes.

Gameplay

Gameplay follows on the earlier games of the series, in which teams of worms take turns to use a variety of weapons and items in order to eliminate the opposing teams. The game, like Worms Revolution , has four different classes each improved with new special abilities. This is also the first Worms game to add Steam Workshop support.

Worms Clan Wars has improved online gameplay. The game allows players to create clans and chat on WormNET, the game's own lobby and chat system.

Reception

Worms Clan Wars received mixed to positive reviews. It currently holds a Metacritic score of 73/100 [3] and a GameRankings score of 73.89%. [2]

In August 2013, it held a Metacritic score of 74/100 [5] and a GameRankings score of 72.50%. [6]

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References

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