Nous nous y attendions mais nous pouvons désormais vous le confirmer : le mercredi 1er juillet sera le jour de l’arrivée de Worms 2 : Armageddon sur le Xbox Live Arcade. Ce sera donc le second Worms à sortir sur le service de Microsoft après la sortie du premier en mars 2007. Celui-ci avant reçu un bel accueil mais avait toutefois déçu beaucoup de monde du fait de son contenu plus que limité.

Worms 2 : Armageddon corrigera cela en proposant une nuée de nouveautés dont 5 armes inédites, le retour de plusieurs armes symboliques comme le Super Mouton, la batte de baseball, le parachute, le napalm et l’incontournable Sainte Grenade !

Le jeu sera bien entendu blindé de contenus en toute sorte qui sont détaillés en anglais ci-dessous. A noter que les Avatars seront présents. Le tout sera proposé au très sympathique prix de 800 MS Points, le même prix que le premier à sa sortie en somme.

SENSATIONAL NEW WEAPONS !

• Sentry Gun! Defend your position with this deadly guardian.

• Electro Magnet! Attract or repel deadly metallic explosives with this unique item.

• Bunker Buster! Use this vertical missile to dig out enemy Worms that have snuck away!

• Buffalo Of Lies! The Donkey’s nemesis, this Trojan Buffalo will cause havoc!

• Super Bunker Buster! Devastating below ground charge!

RETURNING CULT FAVOURITES FROM ARMAGEDDON (in addition to all WORMS weapons)

• Super Sheep! Take your fluffy flocking friend to the air! A controllable, flying super sheep!

• Holy Hand Grenade! Hallelujah! The Deity’s weapon of choice!

• Concrete Donkey! It’s back! As mad and wildly destructive as ever!

• Napalm! Love the smell of burning Worms in the morning?

• Petrol Bomb! This cocktail packs a mighty roasting for enemies. Lob one today.

• Armageddon! Not quite the end as we know it, but it could be for your enemies!

• Parachute! A roper’s best friend! Drop huge heights with wind assist…

• Drill! Dig to victory with the pneumatic drill.

• Baseball Bat. Whack out enemy Worms for a home run cheer!

• Earthquake! Can you rumble the opponent?

• Poison Strike! Germ warfare!

NEW GAME FEATURES

• All new high definition, widescreen artwork

• Reworked audio-visuals throughout

• Fire! Persistent fire eats and burns away the landscape. Hot stuff.

• Crazy Crates! Start with basic weapons and shop as you go!

• Fort Mode! Start teams on your own bases.

• Rope Racing mode.

• Massively enhanced & improved game physics & reactions.

• Speedier, more direct gameplay.

• All new high-definition audio (sound effects, music)

• Speak your mind! Massive variety of comedy voice sets with many all new.

• All new crazy achievements.

• All new extensive customisation, Worm Hats, voices, graves, dances, colours, forts!

• Uses NXE Avatars to reflect game status in game!

• All new Single Player adventure combines death matches and puzzles.

• Win tokens in the all-new 30 chapter single player campaign to win prizes in the game SHOP, unlock new landscapes, voices, hats and more.

• Enhanced CPU AI for more challenging single player games.

• Improved online handling, including host migration for network play.

• All new leaderboards and leaderboard objectives.

NEW GAMEPLAY LEVELS

• 5 all new landscapes graphical types modelled on the original Armageddon style. Battle in Medieval England, Cheese Moon, Construction site and more.

• 130 base landscape styles (compared to just six on original) for diverse play levels.

• Vertical Levels! Play on tall, narrow strips or caverns as well as traditional ‘wide’ levels.

• Mix combinations of landscape type, style, your own game rules and more to create thousands of possible levels and hundreds, if not thousands of hours of replay value.