

He looks loopy to begin with, but he also pulls assorted smirks, grimaces, and surprised looks throughout the game.Īs in every Jim game there's also a ton of bizarre stuff such as falling grandmas, flying pigs, and end-level cows. The star of the graphical show is Jim himself, who keeps things goofy with wonderfully wacky faces. Earthy Graphics And SoundĮarthworm's visuals are killer from the ground up. As Ps圜row tosses helpless puppies out of a window, you have to keep them from going "splat" by running underneath them and bouncing them off a big marshmallow. If your sense of humor leans toward the wicked, you'll enjoy the finger-whacking Puppy Love bonus rounds.

All the primo hardware is necessary to blow away a gang of bad beings that includes evil cats, extraterrestrial circus performers, and blunderbuss-wielding octopi. His standard weapons, of course, are the familiar Machine Gun and the Worm Whip, where Jim's Powersuit uses him as a weapon. Jim finds an arsenal of high-tech weapons littering the landscape, including mega plasma blasters, homing missiles, and the three-finger triple-shot gun. Our earthworm hero runs and guns through strange extraterrestrial worlds. In many ways, the action/adventure gameplay, while varied, traipses through familiar territory.but they're such fun and funny places to be! The ten worlds offer assorted challenges that keep the action fresh and the challenge maxed.

This time the bad bird space villain, Ps圜row, has put the snatch on Jim's girl, Princess What's-Her-Name, to marry her himself. It's Him, JimĮarthworm Jim 2 picks up where the last Jim left off. Thanks to Playmates, however, Genesis owners just might worm their way out of their depression this year. Game makers certainly deserve to be keelhauled for abandoning ship on 16-bit systems and leaving millions of gamers high and dry.
