Worms (series)

Worms is the name of the game series this wiki is all about.

Description
Worms is a turn-based, artillery, strategy and puzzling game series. The goal of the game is to eliminate all Worms in the enemy's team. This goal can be achieved by using weapons to reduce the enemy Worms' HP to zero, or drown them. The match can also be won if the other team surrenders. Each team has weapons to defeat the enemy team. The game contains normal weapons like the Bazooka, Shotgun and the Uzi, but also unusual and bizarre weapons like the Concrete Donkey, Super Sheep, Banana Bomb, etc. The players will just get a specific amount of weapons, while other weapons, utilities and additional health can be found in Crates which drop from the sky.

The game also contains less common schemes like Rope Racing, where the players should get from the start to the finish as fast as possible while only using the Ninja Rope. Players will use the Worm-like acrobats or Tarzan, who swings from rope-to-rope.

History
The very first Worms game was originally made by Andy Davidson. Back then, it was called "Total Wormage" (possibly a reference to "Total Carnage"). He entered the game in an Amiga game contest and failed. But Andy Davidson did not give up. Instead, he took it to the European computer show, where he met Martyn Brown, the co-founder of Team17. Team17 agreed to help him develop and publish the game, and the result is what we see today.

Andy, often described by his co-workers as "a bit mad" left Team17 after (or around) the release of Worms Armageddon, and told fans that he was working on a new, 3D game unrelated to the Worms series (although supposedly containing many Worms references and in-jokes), but this has not yet materialized.

Games in the series
The Worms series consists of multiple games which can be categorized into different generations according to the game engine on which they are based:

Worms Battle Rally was supposed to be released in 2004, but it was cancelled for unknown reasons the year before. 

Platforms
There are a lot of classic platforms used in the first generation games. All four of the generations have Microsoft Windows.

Press quotes
"Britsoft hero to the core, Team17 have been making milestone games for pretty much every platform since it's first games for the Amiga back in 1990. Alien Breed, Body Blows, Assassin, Project X, Worms, Worms 2, Worms Armageddon, Worms: World Party - Let's face it, we've grown up with these games, and we're going to have tears in our eyes whenever they're mentioned for years to come." "Team17 has spent many, many rainy days in Worms heaven, dreaming up every permutation on a theme you could possibly devise. This game has more modes than you'd have thought humanly possible!" "Four-player Worming is almost as much fun as a night in with Britney Spears and a bottle of baby oil." "Team17 have proved with Worms that, whatever the technology of the day, it is gameplay that still counts the most." "If you are even slightly into online games at their best, you'll want to get hold of this game right now."
 * PC Format
 * Gamesdomain.com
 * DC UK Magazine
 * Stuart Dinsey, MCV
 * Dreamcast Magazine

Franchise awards
The Worms series has won a lot of franchise awards such as:

"Most original game" "Best game" "Most original game" "Best game" "Best strategy title" "Strategy game of year" "Best strategy game" "Multiplayer game of year"
 * EMAP Awards
 * BBC's Live & Kicking
 * ECTS Awards
 * Micro Mania Awards
 * PSX Developers
 * EG Monthly
 * Trophee d'or
 * GMBH

Trivia

 * The Worms in the games are somewhat as long as an average earthworm if compared in reality. It was mentioned it the Wormopedia that the Worms are about 3 inches or 7.62 centimeters tall.