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Hotseat multiplayer won't get hotter than this!

Worms 2, the ultimate hotseat party game loaded with wacky action and cartoon violence, is now available on GOG.com for only $5.99.

So, you think that war never changes, huh? Wrong! This war is different. This war is wacky. This war lets you weaponize bananas, sheep, little old ladies, and priceless Ming vases. This war isn't fought to gain territories--in fact, here the terrain very often gets completely obliterated in the course of battle. This war demands that you forget everything you know about tactics and just flip the crazy switch!. This war isn't won by having a stronger moral backbone--in fact, none of the combatants has any sort of backbone to speak of. This is the war of the WORMS.

Worms 2 puts you in command of a small platoon of war-hardened worms with an unspeakable arsenal of deranged, but deadly, weapons at their disposal. Your goal is to eliminate the opposing team (or teams) by any means necessary (this may include the use of the Holy Hand Grenade or Mad Cow launch). The single player campaign provides quite a challenge, but its 45 missions probably won't be enough to prepare you for the unpredictable madness of the hotseat multiplayer, where covering your opponent's eyes becomes a valid way of winning the match. The game comes with a flexible level editor and the ability to customize your team with your very own voice packs, so there's a lot of ways to get even more fun out of wormy warfare. If you're looking for a game to spice up your gaming parties--this is it!

Important notice: this version of Worms 2 aims at improving your social life and encourages you to actually meet people in real life by only supporting hotseat multiplayer mode. That's correct--online multiplayer is disabled, but really: doesn't half the fun in Worms multiplayer come from trolling your opponents by pressing spacebar in the middle of their turn? Sure it does!

Invite some friends over today and blast them into cartoony oblivion in Worms 2, for only $5.99!
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KhalidYousif: Why would you do that?
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F4LL0UT: Oh my God, people. Don't you get it? Online multiplayer requires the developer/publisher to maintain servers for this. This game is like what, 15 years old (and was "replaced" by its sequels - if you want to play online get the newest Worms game). GOG has no control over whether their classic release still supports online multiplayer.
That's pretty much correct. There was no way we could make it work, so we decided to remove this unsupported feature from the game all together. It would be just annoying to see it in the menus, just pointlessly hanging there and mocking you, now wouldn't it?

If anyone felt offended by the humorous way we presented a lack of feature as an actual feature--we're sorry. But in our defense: this game really ROCKS hotseat mode.
Post edited September 06, 2012 by G-Doc
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keeveek: Did you cut off LAN functionality too? Why?
On a serious note: rest assure we went out of our way trying to make ANY kind of multiplayer mode, save hotsead, working in this game. But even the particular LAN protocols this game uses aren't supported on modern systems. If we're able to somehow make it work in the future (hey, we're open to your suggestions--just email support!), we will surely update the game.
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G-Doc: On a serious note: rest assure we went out of our way trying to make ANY kind of multiplayer mode, save hotsead, working in this game. But even the particular LAN protocols this game uses aren't supported on modern systems. If we're able to somehow make it work in the future (hey, we're open to your suggestions--just email support!), we will surely update the game.
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mk47at: I don't know if it works, but a quick search led me to a project named IPXWrapper.
It does not, unfortunately, work with Worms 2. The problem does not lie in wrapping the IPX protocol into something more modern (like UDP), but with the game code itself.
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G-Doc: That's pretty much correct. There was no way we could make it work, so we decided to remove this unsupported feature from the game all together. It would be just annoying to see it in the menus, just pointlessly hanging there and mocking you, now wouldn't it?

If anyone felt offended by the humorous way we presented a lack of feature as an actual feature--we're sorry. But in our defense: this game really ROCKS hotseat mode.
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keeveek: Did you cut off LAN functionality too? Why?
We didn't remove the LAN functionaity; it no longer works, despite all of the tech ninja-ry that we could throw at it. I dunno why.
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JamesBond007: If I remember correctly, Worms 2 never had online multiplayer.
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Shadowcat: No, you remember wrongly. I'm certain that I spent more hours playing Worms 2 online than any other game before or since.

That was in large part because the community was great! Friendly, polite, fun, and not infrequently astoundingly good at the game. You could virtually guarantee every game would be fun, though; even when your wormy butt was merely a bystander at a veritable masterclass in rope ninja tricks :)

I really didn't like some of the changes in Armageddon, though; and although I bought World Party, I never played it much.

Worms 2 was the pinnacle, for me. If something can be done about online multiplayer, I'll grab a copy immediately.
Unfortunately, even if bringing back worms 2 online features would be possible, the community itself has moved on to newer games and I doubt that simply putting up a worms 2 server would bring all those great people back into w2.