Worms Battlegrounds
Developer	Team17
Publisher	Team17
Series	Worms
Platforms	PlayStation 4 Xbox One
Release	EU: 30 May 2014 NA: 3 June 2014[1]
Genres	Artillery,strategy
Modes	Single-player,multiplayer

Worms Battlegrounds is a 2Dartilleryturn-based tacticsvideo game developed and published byTeam17 and was released on 30 May 2014 for thePlayStation 4 andXbox One. It is a console port ofWorms Clan Wars, released previous year.^[2][3][4]

Set within a world history museum, thesingle-player story follows the player's worms attempt to retrieve the concrete donkey's stone carrot from Lord Darius-Mesmer, a worm who is using it to try to take over the world. The game is narrated by Tara Pinkle, aLara Croft parody who is voiced byKatherine Parkinson.

Worms Battlegrounds is an artillery turn-based tactics/strategy game. Gameplay follows on the earlier games of the series, in which teams of worms take turns to use a variety of weapons and items in order to eliminate the opposing teams. It continues to use the mechanic that was introduced inWorms Revolution, whereby players could select their worms from four different classes: Soldier, Scout, Scientist and Heavy, which all had different play styles unique to each class.

The game includes a total of sixty-five weapons and utilities. Among the ten new weapons is a teleport gun, which was created in response to criticism that the ninja rope wasn't authentic compared with older games. In an interview withDigital Spy producer Davd Wood explained: "We had to completely throw out the physics system forRevolution,Clan Wars andBattlegrounds, because we wanted to bring in dynamic water, we wanted to bring in physics objects,"^[5]

The Xbox One version enablesXbox SmartGlass to keep track of stats, while the light bar on the PlayStation 4'sDualShock 4 controller changes its color depending on the status of the player's worm.^[6] The speech from the worms can also be heard through the DualShock 4's internal speaker.

The first additional downloadable content pack forWorms Battlegrounds was titledAlien Invasion, and added various items to the game. It was released in January 2015. The pack adds a new game mode called 'Body Count' in which the player scores points for killing worms, as well as adding more campaign levels for the player to complete. In addition, weapons were added to the game, such as the Plasma Blaster, Energy Orbs and a UFO Strike, as well as adding various new customizable items to decorate the player's worms. The pack also added five trophies and achievements to its list.Alien Invasion was released on January 12 for Xbox One and January 21 for PlayStation 4.^[7][8]

Worms Battlegrounds received mixed reviews. It has aMetacritic score of 62/100 and 70/100 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions respectively.^[13][14]

• 2014 video games
• Artillery video games
• Multiplayer and single-player video games
• PlayStation 4 games
• PlayStation Network games
• Strategy video games
• Video games developed in the United Kingdom
• Video games featuring female protagonists
• Worms (series)
• Xbox One games

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