Another New Playdom Game Surfaces: Wild Ones, a Social Take On Worms
Playdom has had a few game projects in the works; one is Tiki Farm, which Games.com discovered earlier this week. And, we just came across the alpha version of another: Wild Ones.
In a nutshell, the game has players create their own personalized animal avatar and wreak havoc upon other players in an explosive, last-man-standing shooter sort of game. The game could be described best as the child of the old PC title, Worms 2 from Team17. Actually, for all intents and purposes, it is Worms 2. Players scurry about a highly stylized 2D level of varying tiers, tossing grenades and bazooka shells at one another in a turn-based fashion.
The overall objective is to be the last of four players remaining. Each explosion takes a hefty chunk of life out of both the opponent and the landscape itself. In some cases, this land reformation adds to the depth of the game as it can not only impede where users can move, but if the land beneath you is destroyed, you fall into the waters below.
Each match can be played against either computer controlled bots, in a practice mode, or real opponents. And if human competition wasn’t enough, the game tends to drop random health kits and weapon caches (many of which are most curious… such as a bee gun) from the sky to aid to the mayhem. Furthermore, if a match takes too long, the water level begins to rise with each passing turn.
Of course, all of these features were in the Worms series. That isn’t to say that everything is a copy off the classic title, as there are a lot of differences: Worms fought in teams, health was lower, you could only fight one human opponent, and it had different unique weapons (i.e. the holy hand grenade or banana bomb).
What the new app does have that is distinctive, is that players are actually able to customize their avatar and even change its animal type. When you start out, all you have is a plain looking dog, but as you play and level up you will unlock a rabbit, panda, and monkey template for purchase (using currency you gain periodically or purchase). Moreover, higher levels also have greater access to purchasable weapons and more intricate level maps.
Again, the game is in alpha, so a lot is subject to change. Quite frankly, Worms was a fantastic game, so as far as game play goes, Wild Ones doesn’t earn any major complaints; well, except for that it is still basically Worms. It does, however, beg for the physics that the Worms franchise was known for. Wild Ones does have them, but they don’t feel as sensitive as Worms’ did (which is actually something you would want to copy). As an example, if a grenade landed at your feet, you were about to go sailing across the entire map. Also, the health seems a little high. It takes forever for a match to end; especially when health kits keep falling from the sky.
Also, since the game is in alpha, it’s not really possible to make changes to the core of the game anyway, but the shopping for weapons and accessories does add some uniqueness to the title. Moreover, with the social integration, it makes playing against your friends infinitely easier than its predecessor.
Thus far, Wild Ones already has over 300,000 monthly active users, and we will look forward to seeing how it does once alpha is completed.
December 18th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Wild things is fun
December 19th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
sali naman poh
December 20th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
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December 30th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Hey mr. where are the cheats dude pls sen dme cheats :P i need i keep losing all my battles i’ve lost my game please please please send me cheats have mercy
January 11th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
can u please put the price of all the wepons ammo and difrent animals
January 25th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
ammo is too expensive. or money is hard to come up with
January 26th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
sali na me
January 28th, 2010 at 10:40 am
I can no longer play wild one’s through facebook….WHY!!!! Please help!!!
January 29th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
i cannot play wild ones too the time stop?
February 5th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
lower the monkey prices money is to hard to come up with and the spcial powers more people will play if those two things happen
February 5th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
plz put digging again remember more popular
February 5th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
put digging again plz remember more popular dude more popular
February 11th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
your game sucks you need to get better connectio rates i hope that you erase the entire game awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww get a new connection cause i use to like the game till you retards messed up the connctios
February 11th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
i neeed cheats, please tell me how to get money and ammo faster!!!! please please……. please
February 16th, 2010 at 4:40 am
what is the name of the electric place there?
February 19th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
how do i dig with the rabbit? i seen some one do it today and it was not with the drill gun….. i just cant figure it out…. help
February 20th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
do u know if there r any cheats any 1
February 23rd, 2010 at 12:30 pm
I love that game!!! I play it on Facebook.com all the time!!!
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:51 am
hi is this game free because it really sounds good!!!!
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:52 am
gess what i love… you lol !!
March 15th, 2010 at 8:32 am
the game is just badass but i have only played it on myspace what is the difference between facebook and myspace………….
March 22nd, 2010 at 4:35 am
ist ein gutes game
March 30th, 2010 at 4:46 am
hello
April 10th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
ganda nito garabe
April 13th, 2010 at 5:11 am
l love this game its awesome l love the drill gun and laser cannon
April 16th, 2010 at 1:47 am
wild ones the best
April 20th, 2010 at 9:41 am
dude make another place other than facebook, and myspace plzz so it can make it even more popular and try to stop the laggg
April 20th, 2010 at 9:44 am
dude plz make it or probably most of the people will quit….
April 22nd, 2010 at 3:40 pm
i like this game
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:06 am
ths is another wild ones u know
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:07 am
ths is new wild ones game andits so coooool
May 14th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
i know how you can make money faster just open two internet maneger like mozzila and internet explorer open your main account one mozzila and the other account if you dont have two account barrow other account from your friend then create a private room join your 2 account together and then bet 200 on your main account and play your 2 account leave the other account that ist your main shot the other account that ist your main with your main account win the game with your main and you won 500.
May 19th, 2010 at 4:53 am
I love this game because is verry funny and I play very good, I playing evry time!!!!!:)
May 19th, 2010 at 11:53 am
Oi eu gostaria de saber como eu consigo jogar os selvagens o meu sempre para no 90%
obrigado!!!!
May 22nd, 2010 at 4:12 pm
alguin que me diga cual es la pagina de wild ones nuevo no el de facebook si no el que es en una pagina www???¿¿¿¿.??¿¿ por fa respondan me an dicho que es muy bueno y tine como una especie de casa donde guardas las mascotas :D quiero verlo para jugarlo XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD
May 28th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
yeahh bra your game is hectic but ammo should be easier to buy and you should make heeps more animals like parrots and shit :) ily you and your game never kill it bye bye xo
May 31st, 2010 at 6:50 pm
wild ones is awesome but you need to make more animals like bird tiger crocodiles elephant and stuff like that make more animail plz and do it quick lol
June 13th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Hi there, it would be awesome if u make some changes in wildones , like running around and kill eachother , and not have a timelimit like in world of warcraft, everybody run around at the same time and shooting, but u have like a cooldown on our attacks about 3 seconds and game time like 5-10 minutes and the one who kills most in 5-10 minutes win the game! That would be great and i think that you would get more members then. //William.
June 19th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
my friends are anoying me because thay are a higher level then me so plz plz plz plz send me cheats
July 9th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
well… there is a dino hack and you can be like haha i got a dino. wha t you do is…
1.go to pets
2.buy all the pets like relly all of them so you will need money
3.use the dogs time bone the cats scrach the monkeys climb the pandas punch the armidilos dig the bunnys jump the bats fly the hamsters grow on atleast one game and bet coins on each game you play.
dont now how it works but it dous worked for me.
if you have any qustions emal me at michaelvyse@hotmail.com
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July 12th, 2010 at 2:43 am
how 2 instal wild ones?
July 20th, 2010 at 8:23 am
wils ones is now stupid because it has membership member cool weapons and they always post sucks i like the hamster and the bat and then thier member wat a stupid membership i wil find u if i find u ill kill u in the penis
July 20th, 2010 at 11:42 am
Please ask me apologize for these actions please give me back my account from wild ones that I swear to hack volverre more porfa please
August 25th, 2010 at 9:23 am
cool!!!
September 1st, 2010 at 11:16 am
wild ones mega is super.
September 3rd, 2010 at 12:55 am
wild ones
September 19th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
I’m Lvl 34
September 21st, 2010 at 3:19 am
ddr
October 2nd, 2010 at 1:23 pm
como ven este es el mejor juego de todos junto con pet society bueno como ustedes ven solo se puede jugar en facebook no el juego el unico juego que puedes descargar haci es el worlm algo haci bueno en este juego yo soy nivel 42 estoy que paso al nivel 43 al nivel 43 te dan la game over nuke esa destruye casi todo el territorio bueno les dire algunas armas que conosco:missile,granade,minigun,baby nuke,nuke,mega nuke,game over nuke,slinhgot,alvin,tornado granade,missile chower,bomba rosada,pistol,invisivile posions.Y muchas mas gracias por aver visto este comentario.
October 19th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
como se descarga
November 6th, 2010 at 10:25 am
çok güzelya bu oyuna ayranım….
February 3rd, 2011 at 11:56 am
I love this game!!! I’m a Dragon at level 100 and i’m a member for the 10th time!!!
February 6th, 2011 at 3:52 am
me is super unlimited weapons in facebook
February 6th, 2011 at 3:53 am
me is super highyer lvl in facebook and unlimited weapons in wild ones
February 18th, 2011 at 8:54 am
la neta yo tengo el dragon el ornto armas in finitas
February 18th, 2011 at 8:56 am
o:)
May 6th, 2011 at 5:49 pm
im addicted at this game!!!
i want game over nukes over 9999999 times!!!
May 6th, 2011 at 5:51 pm
but i have about 324 game over nukes and a member have 521 treats and level 132!
September 26th, 2011 at 5:36 am
HOW DO IGET 99X OF AMMO
September 26th, 2011 at 5:37 am
ANSWER MY QUESTION PLEASE
January 28th, 2012 at 6:41 pm
i love this game im level 150 i got 1000 treats ace