Worms Forts: Under Siege | Xbox

About the Game

Worms Forts: Under Siege is a turn-based strategy game where 2-4 players battle it out with a team of 4 worms with the help of weapons and forts. Each player takes timed turns bombing, shooting, causing natural and unnatural disasters, punching and blowing up the opponent’s worms. Each worm has a set amount of health and once that health is depleted or the worm drowns that worm is dead. New to the series is the ability to construct buildings to aid in the fight.

Gameplay & Core Systems

Players can build hospitals to resurrect dead worms, science labs to increase their firepower, strongholds to base their operations in and protect worms, towers, keeps, castles and citadels to deploy weapons from their tops and weapon factories to produce multiple weapons around them at the start of each turn taken. Along with these typical buildings you can create Wonders which your opponent has two turns to knock down and if they don’t succeed you win. If they in turn build their own you must destroy it to win the game. Along with the typical Worms -style weapons like the mini gun, bazooka, rocket launcher, earthquake and homing pigeon (a homing missile in the form of a pigeon), worms will also have weapons to destroy buildings like the trebuchet, fridge launcher, nuclear strike and the Trojan Donkey (which you get to place where you like and it remains there until it explodes, how long it takes to explode is not known).

Modes & Ways to Play

As with the other Worms games, in multiplayer there is a number of options to choose from to set up a match against other people, including allowing the CPU to play.

Presentation & Atmosphere

Players can choose schemes (selection of pre-set weapons and game options), landscapes (the type of playing field - Roman, Egyptian, Samurai and Old World), Fortpot (a slot machine that randomly selects three game options from the many available), game settings (wins required, turn time, etc.), worm health and sudden death settings.