Update: Commenter Troy points us to an interview on The 8th Circuit, which has a few details on Earthworm Jim HD's multiplayer. According to Gameloft's Anne-Joelle Casenaz, the XBLA and PSN versions will feature "brand new levels with exclusive enemies and up to 4 players in co-op multiplayer!" So there you go: It's co-op.
According to a list of Achievements unearthed by Xbox 360 Achievements, it looks like the upcoming Earthworm Jim HD will feature some form of multiplayer. There are two Achievements for multiplayer, one awarded for being "'No. 1' in each Xbox Live multiplayer level" and another for completing all multiplayer levels. It's hard to imagine how multiplayer would work, though GamerBytes offers up the possibility of speed run competitions or a multiplayer variant of the snot bungee mini-game.
We'd also suggest that the space races between levels could work as well. Also, given the title of the second Achievement is "World Partnership," the multiplayer could be cooperative in nature.
Reader Comments (28)
Posted: May 27th 2010 10:21PM Special Agent Steve said
Personally, I think we should just bury it.
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Posted: May 27th 2010 10:11PM Special Agent Bob said
i dont know why but ever time i see jim i get this wiggly feeling
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Posted: May 27th 2010 10:19PM TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2 said
Maybe it'll just be the rocket racing segments...
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Posted: May 27th 2010 10:30PM Barkley610 said
Im ready for some worm whippin' right now. When's this comming out?
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Posted: May 27th 2010 10:40PM TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2 said
I tried worm whipping once... Spent two nights in jail
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Posted: May 27th 2010 10:42PM MystileArmor said
In about 30 seconds, if you keep worm whippin' it fast and steady.
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Posted: May 27th 2010 10:43PM laser beams said
i want to see what else they are doing to update this game. i hope that they revamp certain gameplay elements- because as much as i loved the earthworm jim games- there were parts that made me want to throw my controller through the TV. bad collision on the sprites led to unnecessary deaths, the space race with psycrow was always obnoxious and that goddamn bathysphere level... holy crap, did that raise the ol' blood pressure when i first played these games in jr. high.
i still love the idea of an HD Earthworm Jim remake, though. i want some screenshots!
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i still love the idea of an HD Earthworm Jim remake, though. i want some screenshots!
Posted: May 27th 2010 11:24PM (Unverified) said
This interview dishes a little bit of detail on the multiplayer if you were interested
http://8th-circuit.com/?q=content/exclusive-earthworm-jim-hd-interview-anne-joelle-casenaz
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http://8th-circuit.com/?q=content/exclusive-earthworm-jim-hd-interview-anne-joelle-casenaz
Posted: May 28th 2010 3:12AM sicsided said
It did, but they didn't have the IP ownership to actually create anything off of it. The original designer still retains ownership of the TJ&E IP and says he is actually talking with SEGA/someone else in regards to the franchise. So basically they jumped the gun and threw it up on the poll without securing ownership.
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Posted: May 28th 2010 12:16AM gettinmoney662 said
Because this is supposed to be a "professional" news site.
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Posted: May 28th 2010 12:33AM sonicspike41 said
<rant>
It's a site and it has an editor. A good majority of the terms and phrases used here would break in a spell checker anyways, so it wouldn't really be all that easy to automatically check every post unless you constantly add new words to the spell check dictionary.
My guess is that the editor is more concerned with the information presented and the tone of the post. That way it doesn't imply more than it should, and it doesn't reveal or spoil anything.
But really, we're all human. We all make mistakes.
</rant>
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It's a site and it has an editor. A good majority of the terms and phrases used here would break in a spell checker anyways, so it wouldn't really be all that easy to automatically check every post unless you constantly add new words to the spell check dictionary.
My guess is that the editor is more concerned with the information presented and the tone of the post. That way it doesn't imply more than it should, and it doesn't reveal or spoil anything.
But really, we're all human. We all make mistakes.
</rant>
Posted: May 28th 2010 1:15AM Voshempa said
I didn't notice it, but on the topic of why point it out, I think it's like an itch where you just have to scratch it. I'm sure the OP understands that people make mistakes. In the same way that we're all human and make mistakes, we're all human and will point out mistakes, differences, and moles. After all, how would we know about mistakes if they were never pointed out. That's all that happened. There wasn't any hate or disrepect towards the site, so that's a plus.
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Posted: May 28th 2010 12:30AM Fata1Stryke said
That would be cool, I'd like to see something like that. Splosion Man's co-op was quite well-designed IMO.
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