Worms World Party

Like its predecessors, Worms World Party is a side-scrolling video game involving controlling a team of worms and using a collection of weaponry to eliminate any opposing teams. The worms can walk and jump around and use tools such as the ninja rope and parachute to move to otherwise unreachable locations.

The worms have an arsenal of dozens of weapons, ranging from longbows to bazookas and from fireballs to Holy Hand Grenades. There are also an array of special weapons, such as Armageddon (meteor shower) or the infamous Concrete Donkey. Some of these weapons are present in the worms' initial arsenal while others can be collected from randomly appearing crates during the game. For some weapons, such as grenades, holding the launching key longer shoots them further.

After releasing Worms Armageddon, Team17 had plans to develop a fully three-dimensional iteration of Worms, resulting in the 2003 launch of Worms 3D. Worms Armageddon was meant to be the final game in the series using two-dimensional visuals, but Sega approached the company and asked them to develop an online version for the Dreamcast. Worms World Party is the first Worms game in which Andy Davidson, the franchise's creator, had no involvement since his departure from Team17 (Davidson later returned to the company in 2012).

Worms World Party was ported to Pocket PCs by JAMDAT Mobile on 3 October 2003. There was a port due to launch on the Gizmondo platform, but that was ultimately cancelled because of the console's short lifespan.

The Dreamcast, PC, Game Boy Advance and N-Gage versions received "generally favourable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. The main complaint in the individual reviews is that the game was too similar to Worms Armageddon with merely incremental improvements. Mike Wolf of NextGen said of the Dreamcast version, "Even with the online issues, this is Worms at its finest – quick, easy, fun worm-blasting action." Miss Spell of GamePro said of the same console version, "While true to the series, the simple 2D graphics don't push the Dreamcast's capabilities.

The heroic music and the comic voices are the best part of the game, which isn't saying much. All in all, you'll want to let this one off the hook." Edge called the same Dreamcast version "a purchase that can't be justified if you only plan to experience the oneplayer [sic] side."