The Worms games are among my all-time favourites, combining great multiplayer action with a good dose of strategy and humor. When I bought a Game Boy Advance, Worms World Party was among the very first games I bought, as I know how fun, addictive and replayable these games are. Worms World Party was pretty much as I expected it to be on GBA, with a few surprises, both negative and positive.

The graphics, menues, weapons and options should be very familiar to anyone who has played a Worms game before, and are easy to learn regardless. The graphics are fairly good, and is basically a low-res (the small screen doesn''t really need higher resolution) version of the Worms 2/Armageddon/World Party PC games. I was surprised to see that there is no option for creating new teams, nor creating your own names for your worms, a feature I enjoyed in the PC-games. Granted, there are quite a number of teams included that can be modified with the random name generator, which contains very many names, so it''s not a very big loss, but still such a feature is missed. The fact that you are unable to save your progress and modified teams is quite irritating, but not devastating. The in-game controls are easy and fairly well done, considering the lack of a mouse on a GBA. Your worms can walk, aim, change weapons, fire, make four different kinds of jumps and you can scroll around the landscape and pause the game, all with the limited number of buttons you''ll find on your GBA, and I find the controls easy to remember.

The ninja rope and the bungee are kind of unstable and hard to use, which I found irritating, considering I use these tools a lot on the PC-version. It does not matter too much, though, as your worms can jump further and fall longer (without taking damage) in this version. Besides this, the rest of the weapons and utilities in the game seems to work fine, with the possible exeption of flame-based weapons, which only burns for a single turn, and seem quite useless compared to most other weapons. And I have not been able to make Prod function properly, but that might be my own fault. The landscapes comes in 20 different shapes, each of which can be used with any of the terrain themes (ie. pirate, medieval, cheese, warzone, music etc.) The result is a quite varied choice of maps, although far from as costumizeable as the PC-version.