Worms Ultimate Mayhem squirms onto Steam Sept. 28

The PC version of Worms Ultimate Mayhem will reach Steam on September 28, a one-week delay from its previous pronouncement of war. Launch dates for operations on the Xbox 360 and PS3 are still to be determined.

Along with today's debut delay announcement, Team 17 brought out a new "customization" trailer. The clip features some of the 100 fashion items available for the Worms, and shows off the "weapon factory," which allows players to customize how some items in their arsenal deliver sweet, wormy death.

Worms Ultimate Mayhem (Single Player)

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WORMS™ ULTIMATE MAYHEM – 'PIMP YOUR WORM' WITH CRAZY CUSTOMISATION!

Release date for PC version on Steam also updated

London, UK – 19th September, 2011 – Ministers of madness Team 17 today announce that their much anticipated collection of enhanced 3D chaos, Worms™ Ultimate Mayhem, will now be making its anarchic arrival on Steam for PC on Wednesday 28th September 2011, wriggling back one week later than originally announced. Team 17 have today also released another helping of Worms™ based video-madness, with a look into just how ludicrously customisable Worms™ Ultimate Mayhem really is, in their brand new 'Customisation' trailer.

Worms™ fans the world over have always loved making the pink little blighters their own, be it with hats, speech banks, or just plain naming them silly things. Worms™ Ultimate Mayhem ups the ante by providing more options than ever before, with well over 100 ridiculous customisation items. Players can customize what their worms wear, with a huge selection of silly hats, hands, gloves, moustaches and glasses available, and also what gravestones and speech banks the worms have. The game modes are also highly adjustable, enabling players to tailor the individual game settings to their own tastes. There is also a 'Wormpot' feature, which allows even further game style adjustments, with over 1,000,000 possible combinations! Players can even create their very own Machiavellian weapon of mass destruction in the 'Weapon Factory'; decide how it is launched, what effect it has and even what it looks like. There is very little you can't customize in Worms™ Ultimate Mayhem!

Worms™ fans can still pre-order Worms™ Ultimate Mayhem for PC from Steam now, with pre-purchase bonuses including a 10% discount on the game, a special 4-Pack offer with a 25% saving, and also a discounted 'bundle deal' with Worms™ Reloaded.

Worms™ Ultimate Mayhem will be released for PC from Steam™ on Wednesday 28th September 2011. The final release dates for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation®3 versions are still to be confirmed.

Reader Comments (14)

HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH!

*big explosion*

ugh... kind of cringe worthy. You would think Team17 had already learned that Worms doesn't work in 3D

@Shiroi Kaze
Shit, Team 17 hasn't even learned to program Worms correctly in 15 years. Same stupid bugs, with new ones each itteration, and still the same godawful AI.

@Jennacide

TEAM 17 is a one trick pony company we all know that, for a company who is more than 20 years old that has done nothing but worms games, looks like all their creativity was left with the amiga market. I really wonder what is going to happen when people finally see that they have been selling the same game for so many years, you could play the amiga version of worms right now and there is virtually nothing new compared to the last release. I can´t believe people still pays for this same old game.

@Shiroi Kaze Worms works great in 3-D. No need to be all anti because you can't work the rocket launcher in three dimensions.

@SeeJohnson you're exactly right... it was me not being able to shoot in 3d... that must have been all the reviewers problems too that gave the game an average rating.

@Hunter141072 Your obviously too young to remember the awsomeness of Superforg they've all also done the Alien Breed games.

@Hunter141072 It all went downhill when Andy Davidson left, at least for the Worms franchise.

@Domino2097

The opposite my friend, as i said they LEFT their creativity with the amiga market, back in those days team 17 created many kind of games, this days??? well, i challenge you to name 5 different games of team 17 of the last 10 years without the word WORMS on it.

@MtlAngelus

Now that you mention him, team 17 should have a statue of andy davidson right in front of their offices, really if he hadn´t been on that amiga show and offered worms to team 17 right now they would have diapered from the whole industry, that or we´d be talking about superfrog 37, i wonder how much money does andy sees right now for securing team 17 future?? oh yeah....none..... well, at least i hope they have that statue.

played the xbox version in Iraq numerous times.

If this were any other company I'd wonder if they bothered to finally learn how to write netcode, but alas it's Team17, so that question would be naive in asking. I know the answer: they didn't.

They need to do worms game proper justice and build a 2D pc game from the ground up. The last game was a lame port over from consoles. I miss the Worms 2 and Worms Armageddon days. Only thing that ruined those games was the netcode.

I think you mean "customisation", according to the trailer.