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Worms 2

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Worms 2
Worms 2 cover
Developers
Team17
Publishers
Retail, Europe and North America MicroProse
Retail, Russia Russobit-M
Retail re-release Sold Out Software
Digital Team17
Release dates
Windows November 21, 1997
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Side view
Controls Direct control
Genres Artillery, Strategy
Series Worms
Worms 2 on HowLongToBeat
Worms 2 on IGDB
Worms 2 guide on StrategyWiki
Worms 2 on MobyGames
Worms 2 on Wikipedia
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Worms 2 is a singleplayer and multiplayer side view artillery and strategy game in the Worms series.

Since Windows XP, the game would fail to launch after playing the intro cutscene. The Worms 2 Plus community project fixes the underlying issue, and also restores the multiplayer menu in the GOG.com version, making it a required installation on modern systems.

General information

Worms Knowledge Base article
Unofficial Worms Wiki
Dream17 Softography
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Multiplayer menu disabled in this release; can be re-enabled by Worms 2 Plus.
Windows
A demo is available.

Essential improvements

Official patch

The latest official patch is 1.005, available from GameFront.

Worms 2 Plus

Worms 2 Plus is a bundle of software and assets by various authors in single installer.

Compatible with retail and GOG.com versions.
Makes the game run on modern computers with extra features and content.
Restores the multiplayer menu entry for the GOG.com version.
Installing Worms 2 Plus
  1. Download the latest version here.
  2. Launch Worms2_Plus_*.exe installer.
  3. Always launch the game by running <path-to-game>\frontend.exe.
Do not set any compatibility settings on any of the game's files
Make sure only one copy of the game is installed to avoid it launching the wrong application

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Team17SoftwareLTD\Worms2
<path-to-game>\Teams\Internet.dat[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
The team file is stored in <path-to-game>\Teams\W2TEAM.st1.
Last landscape is stored in <path-to-game>\Saves\land.dat.
User levels are stored in <path-to-game>\Levels\*.lev.
User weapons are stored in <path-to-game>\Weapons\*.wep.
User options are stored in <path-to-game>\Options\*.opt.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

Launcher video settings.
Launcher video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Use the Widescreen resolution and Windowed fixes.
Ultra-widescreen
No letterboxing for open islands, letterboxed to 1916x854 in caverns.
4K Ultra HD
No letterboxing for open islands, letterboxed to 1916x854 in caverns.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Through the Windowed hack with Border set to 0 in the .ini file.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Through the Windowed hack, as VerticalSync in the .ini file.
60 FPS
Capped at 60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

ReSolution plugin
Supports resolutions up to 32767x32767
Letterboxing starts at sizes greater than 6012x2902 for open-island maps, and 1916x854 for closed-cavern maps
Supports multi-monitor setups and zooming with the windowed mode hack (see below) and manually adjusting the total screen resolution in the settings file
Alt+ Enter will optionally switch between borderless fullscreen window fill and a nonfullscreen window.

Windowed

Windowed mode hack
Supports both regular and borderless windowed mode
Performs an external conversion of the 8-bit palette to 32-bit, resolving the color issues and improving performance on modern systems.
Can be combined with the ReSolution plugin to change the window dimensions, zoom and resize the game
The "VerticalSync" setting, enabled by default, synchronizes the displayed frame rate with the monitor refresh rate.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Short of worm responses, there is no speech.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Uses DirectSound defaults. Can be force-disabled using the windowed hack with "UseFGCGetForegroundWindow" set to 1.
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio
Can be replaced by .ogg files via Worms 2 Plus.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Danish
Dutch
French
German
Polish
Local retail version only.
Brazilian Portuguese
Language also available in the European version.[1]
Russian
Spanish
Swedish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
6 Hot seat
LAN play
6
Online play
6 See Worms 2 Plus


Issues fixed

Black screen after quitting the game (GOG.com version)

Launch the game via the <path-to-game>\frontend.exe[2]
If the previous step still does not work, do this next step.
Install Worms 2 Plus and run it from frontend.exe[3]

Audio/video synchronization issues in intro movies (GOG.com version)

Download the 7-Zip archive found here and extract its content in the game root directory, overriding already present files.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 1 8-bit
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 75 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 50 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7.0 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

  1. YouTube - last accessed on 2023-08-25
  2. Verified by User:Orzelek303 on 2017-12-15
  3. Verified by User:Diegoelcapo1231 on 2021-06-30