Retro Replay Review

Gameplay

The first good turn in Worms Revolution is still hard to beat: you spot an enemy near a ledge, adjust your angle, and commit to a shot that might win the round or send your own plan spiraling into slapstick disaster. It is classic turn-based Worms at heart. Teams take turns maneuvering across side-view stages and trying to eliminate one another with a large assortment of weapons. Familiarity is part of the comfort here, but it is also why the game quickly gets to the good stuff instead of making you learn a wholly different artillery game.

Its strongest new idea is water. Randomly generated levels contain pools, and terrain deformation matters because tunneling or blasting a route can send that water spilling elsewhere. A water pistol joins the arsenal specifically to play with this system, and washing a worm into a hazardous spot gives matches a more fluid sense of cause and effect. You are not merely calculating one explosion; you can reshape the ground and set off a chain of consequences that changes where it is safe to stand.

Interactive objects add to that improvisation. Destroy a giant box of rat poison and it releases a poison cloud; rupture a lighter-fluid can and the ground becomes a sea of flames. These objects can turn a seemingly quiet corner of the map into a trap, so it pays to look beyond the nearest target. The downside is the same thing that makes Worms funny: plans can collapse quickly. If you prefer a tactics game where every outcome remains tightly controlled, the shifting terrain and environmental hazards can feel more irritating than clever.

Classes add another layer without overwhelming the established formula. Their bonuses can improve qualities such as health recovery or movement, letting you lean toward tougher worms or more agile ones. Combined with extensive team customization, they give your squad a little more character. Solo play, AI matches, local multiplayer, and online multiplayer mean there are plenty of ways to use that squad, though this remains a game that shines brightest when another human is there to appreciate — or curse — a spectacularly bad shot.

Graphics

Worms Revolution uses a 3D engine while keeping the action on a two-dimensional side-view battlefield. That perspective makes the important information easy to read: you can see where worms are positioned, how terrain has been carved up, and where pools of water may spill once the ground gives way. The destructible landscapes are the visual star because every blast can leave the map visibly altered.

Story

There is no story premise here competing with the matches themselves. Worms Revolution is built around comedy-war skirmishes: customized teams of worms trade increasingly silly weapons and environmental disasters until somebody is left standing. That light touch is the right fit. You are here for the tale a match generates on its own, not for a campaign of dramatic plot turns.

The memorable moments come from emergent humiliation and comeback attempts. A worm that looked secure can be flushed away by redirected water; a well-placed attack can become a disaster when poison or flames spread in an unexpected direction. The game’s tone turns these setbacks into part of the joke, which helps soften the sting when your careful turn goes wrong.

That means the game works best if you enjoy supplying the personality yourself. Naming and customizing your team gives the nonsense more bite, especially in local or online play, where rival squads can develop their own running jokes. If you need authored characters and a narrative hook to carry a strategy game, this is not where Worms Revolution puts its energy.

Overall Experience

Worms Revolution is a solid refinement of an already durable formula. The series’ familiar aiming, movement, weapon selection, and turn-by-turn brinkmanship remain the foundation, while water physics and volatile scenery create a welcome reason to reconsider how you use the map. When those systems interact cleanly, a round has the kind of escalating chaos that makes everyone pause to see how far the damage will spread.

Not every addition changes the series equally. Classes are useful rather than transformative, and the basic rhythm remains recognizably Worms from the opening turn onward. That is either reassuring or limiting depending on your history with the series. Veterans get a capable variation with more environmental mischief; newcomers get a friendly entry point into a long-running artillery staple.

Give it a chance if you enjoy turn-based tactics that leave room for messy physics, lucky breaks, and laughter at your own mistakes. Go in expecting calculated shots to share space with ridiculous accidents, especially when water, tunnels, poison, and fire start interacting. For a little background on this particular entry, the Worms Revolution history and release information is useful, but the real recommendation is simpler: get friends involved, accept that your plan will occasionally explode in your face, and enjoy the rounds where it happens to somebody else.

Retro Replay Score

7.1/10