Behind the Scenes of Worms: Battlegrounds with Team 17

You could say that British game development studio Team 17 has been around the block. Established back in 1990 (when its primary platform was the Amiga), the group of roughly 75 employees makes up one of game development’s longest running studios. Its most successful franchise, “Worms,” debuted in 1995, and has since sold some 60 millón de copias en todo el mundo. Tomorrow, the studio will release “Worms: campos de batalla” para Xbox Uno, which promises to be the best entry in the series to date; with the most weapons, the biggest maps, and the finest single- and multiplayer experiences, it’s certainly the most comprehensive. Add to that an all-new, feature-rich implementation of clans, as well as a cool new companion application—and a game presented with beautiful 1080p graphics running at 60 cuadros por segundo—and series fans have something to be excited about.

Para los recién llegados: “Worms: campos de batalla” is a turn-based strategy game in which you choose your own team of worms, decide what class they’ll be (Pesado, Soldado, Científico, or Scout), and customize them with different accoutrements. Want a team of worms styled after your loved ones or favorite pop culture references? How about outfitting your worms with silly pirate hats? There’s even a level editor, in case you want to roll your own battlegrounds.

“Thanks to the increased power of the Xbox One hardware, ‘Battlegrounds’ is the ultimate version of ‘Worms’ to play with friends, around one machine or online,” says Debbie Bestwick, CEO. “’Worms’ has always been a sociable game to play with friends, and this is the ultimate experience.” Team 17 has created a brand-new single player game, with a storyline and a platformer-like experience, capitalizing on the Xbox One’s extra physics processing power to create all manner of devious contraptions and bizarre machinery for players to overcome.

In many ways, the game is centered on the social aspect – starting your own clans, and working together to make those clans powerful. The Xbox One SmartGlass companion application connects all of this together; it allows you to engage with the game and your clan members, even when you’re away from your Xbox One. Want to know who the movers and shakers are in your clan? Want to know who isn’t pulling their weight? Want to keep tabs on how your clan is performing when you’re on the road? The companion app provides wide range of useful stats in a clean format, without cluttering up the game’s interface.

Some new weapons have entered the mix as well. “The Winged Monkey is as bonkers as you would expect,” says Bestwick. It’s essentially a winged monkey that flies into the game, with objects of your choosing in tow. Previously, objects could be decimated along with the landscape that contained them; ahora, they’re individual entities that react to physics. Some have special properties, like exploding into a burst of flames, water or poison. “The Winged Monkey can fly in with any one of these objects for you,” says Bestwick. “It’s completely up to you how you use it, whether that’s to …leer más