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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!
I was going to buy it with some friends only for the sole purpose of playing it online (since we live in different countries).

But I noticed that you have disabled it so I changed my mind.

Why would you do that?

Please enable the online/network multiplayer functionality so we can buy it.

Thanks.
Team 17 releases are always welcome here

Hope to see the entire anthology of Worms here one day, including the awesome 3D ones
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bazilisek: Yeah, but it's not a very good joke.

"We don't have feature X, but who cares as it's for losers anyway, amirite?"
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gameon: Agreed. I don't appreciate GOG saying that people who play online games are social rejects.
They work for a game company, they're the biggest social rejects here!
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GOG.com: 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!
I remember the hotseating sessions when the first game appeared, it was really funnier and much better than current online gaming.

Wacky Wheels (a 90's pc copy of Mario Kart) was also a lot of fun because two players could easily play it on the same keyboard. :)
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Toast_burner: From what I hear the Polish have a similar sense of humour to the British. It's called sarcasm.
These blurbs are usually written by GOG's resident Americans, though. For an international audience, no less. But be that as it may, I still think the joke is in poor taste ("the product we're selling is defective, isn't that a riot?"), regardless of the nationality of the person who made it. Feel free to disagree.

(Please note that I'm not at all upset GOG couldn't get the multiplayer component to work for whatever reason; I'm sure that they would fix it if they could.)
Instabuy, awesome stuff.

Edit: bit of a shame about the multiplayer....
Post edited September 06, 2012 by MonstaMunch
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gameon: Agreed. I don't appreciate GOG saying that people who play online games are social rejects.
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Toast_burner: They work for a game company, they're the biggest social rejects here!
lol, nice one mate ;)
Bitches whining about everything, oh my, what else is new.
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KhalidYousif: Why would you do that?
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.
Post edited September 06, 2012 by F4LL0UT
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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. GOG has no control over whether their release still supports online multiplayer.
Exactly. Multiplayer servers were disabled years before GOG even showed up on a map.

Play by hamachi and shut the hell up already, people.
Post edited September 06, 2012 by keeveek
Great release, I cannot wait to see Worms Armageddon on GOG.
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bazilisek: These blurbs are usually written by GOG's resident Americans, though. For an international audience, no less. But be that as it may, I still think the joke is in poor taste ("the product we're selling is defective, isn't that a riot?"), regardless of the nationality of the person who made it. Feel free to disagree.

(Please note that I'm not at all upset GOG couldn't get the multiplayer component to work for whatever reason; I'm sure that they would fix it if they could.)
It would have been simplier for them to just put a simple apology (and looking at the responses probably would have been the better choice)
But I find a casual joke to be more friendly than a formal apology. It adds to the charm that makes GOG great.
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bazilisek: Yeah, but it's not a very good joke.

"We don't have feature X, but who cares as it's for losers anyway, amirite?"
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gameon: Agreed. I don't appreciate GOG saying that people who play online games are social rejects.
You shouldn't have any problem with what gog said here then, as they quite clearly didn't say that. I feel bad for you that you can't appreciate such wit, maybe if you got out more and played less online games....

[thats a joke, I play online games sometimes too, just messing with ya. :). ]
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keeveek: Bitches whining about everything, oh my, what else is new.
Recursive bitching is recursive.
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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. GOG has no control over whether their release still supports online multiplayer.
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keeveek: Exactly. Multiplayer servers were disabled years before GOG even showed up on a map.

Play by hamachi and shut the hell up already, people.
Wait... do you mean that the IPX/SPX or TCP/IP LAN works in it and is not disabled?