Worms 3D (Windows)

Worms 3D
Developers: Team17, Feral Interactive (Mac) Publishers: Sega (EU), Acclaim Entertainment (US) Platform: Windows Released in US: March 11, 2004 Released in EU: October 31, 2003 This game has unused areas. This game has unused graphics.

To do: There are a couple of weapons that only appear in some versions, or don't appear in any version or... or something like that. Examples include the Ming Vase, Concrete Donkey, and Mega Mine.

The first entry of the few three dimensional Worms games that exist, it may not have gameplay as engaging as the 2D Worms games but it has a lot of charm and style in many ways.

Worms 4: Mayhem later on has improved on the Worms 3D art style and gameplay greatly.

Unused Graphics

E3 Demo 2003 Flag

Inside "bundle01.xom", there exists an E3 Demo flag named "FE.E3.Logo".

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  E3 Demo 2003 flag.

Unused Weapon Icons

The weapon icon sheet inside "bundle01.xom" includes several cut weapons;

• 3rd column, 4th row; White Headband ( Kamikaze, but has no Japanese flag this time? )

• 3rd column, 6th row; Napalm Strike

• 4th column, 1st row; Super Banana Bomb

• 7th column, 5th row; a never seen before in the series Laser Gun!... and the Flamethrower in place of it in the Mac port strangely enough.

Original	Mac

The Flamethrower's "Weapon Options Menu" icon however stays intact in both versions, the Mac port simply being higher resolution.

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  Flamethrower ( Mac port, original is same but lower res. ).

Unused Wormpedia Images

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  wpd_niagra.tga

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  wpd_megamine.tga

Inside "Data\Frontend\Wormapedia" there are 2 unused Wormpedia weapon info images for... "Niagra"... ...and the "Mega Mine", which can said to be only extremely rarely be found in weapon crates, it seems the developers wanted to keep the weapon as secret as possible so that there isn't even a Wormpedia entry for it compared to other rare secret weapons such as "Concrete Donkey" and "Lottery Strike".

"Temporary" Mission/Map Thumbnail

A different icon for the "Beautiful Balloon" mission, is used when a map has no thumbnail image.

While all mission icons normally exist only in the "Levels" folder, this one exists both inside "bundle01.xom" as "FE.TempMission" and inside the "Data\Frontend\Levels" folder as "Mission_Balloon.tga", possibly to ensure it appears consistently when a map lacks a thumbnail.

Unlike all the other final mission icons this one has no curved corners, also when looked closely the water looks somewhat different compared to the final water.

Mission_Balloon.tga / FE.TempMission	Mission_BB.tga ( Final "Beautiful Balloon" icon )

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  The Temporary Thumbnail working as intended, appearing when there's no set thumbnail for a map.

Cut Missions

Hide and Peek

Travel around the sea monster's body and get to the middle island and collect the crate that holds the Fire Punch, then kill the enemy.

Don't leave yourself exposed when the turn timer ends as the enemy has a shotgun and you have just the right amount of health (75) to die to it with 3 shots (-25 per shot).

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  Hide and Peek

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  Briefing Thumbnail

The Crocketeer

Frequent random explosions happen in random spots of the map.

After the enemy takes a turn the match gets softlocked.

The mission is most likely to just survive until all the enemies kill each other.

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  The Crocketeer

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  Briefing Thumbnail

One Small Step

Very similar to "In Space, No-One Can Hear You Clear", likely an early version of it.

Compared to aforementioned mission; In here you start with no weapons other than the Jetpack and are poisoned every turn even after getting Healthkits and you need to collect several healthkits for the weapon crates that hold 2x Bazookas to spawn at all, the landscape is also quite different obviously.

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  One Small Step

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  Briefing Thumbnail

Unused Landscapes

There many unused landscapes such as debug/test landscapes, slightly different versions of already existing landscapes and some interesting completely unique landscapes.

Unique Landscapes

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  pirate.xom,wormisland.xom,w.xom: Notice the faint worm face on the volcano?

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  piratetest.xom

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  piratetest2.xom

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  e3multi.xom

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  random.xom

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  md random1.xom

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  md random2.xom

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  md random3.xom

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  md random4.xom

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  md random5.xom

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  md random6.xom: This one uses improper textures, notice the christmas tree and the skis.

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  md random7.xom

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  md random8.xom

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  md random9.xom

"Earn Your Crust" versions

From most close to least close to the final version:

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  Original "Earn Your Crust" for comparison

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  e3demo.xom: Different roofs ( Windmill, Houses ), no steps leading to windmill, no platform on top of windmill.

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  4player.xom: Same differences as e3demo + different island shapes, different wood texture, different chimney smoke.

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  ps2test.xom: Same differences as 4player + no fence in front of house, house & top left house chimneys has eye texture, different grass, rock & dirt textures, mushroom decorations instead of grass, no chimney smoke.

"Please No More Islands" versions

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  2player.xom: Likely the map used in the demo version, looks to be same as the original. (?)

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  vscpu.xom: Original but with snow effect.

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  pdemo.xom: Original combined with "pdemo.xom".

"Apple Core Island" versions

Same landscape, crustier apple.

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  e3single.xom: The apple's turned gray... yuck!

Debug & Test Landscapes

Just some run-of-the-mill testing purgatories.

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  aitest.xom

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  animstest.xom

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  assaultcourse.xom

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  cratetest.xom

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  flattest.xom

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  jeggett.xom

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  mike.xom

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  normaltest.xom

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  pdemo.xom

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  stevesflattest.xom

Trophy Oddity

After clearing each campaign mission, a trophy is awarded based on how much time it took. Gold and silver trophies are mildly challenging to get, while bronze trophies seem intended as the fallback for clearing the level at all. However, there is in fact a time limit for obtaining a bronze -- it's just 999 minutes, which on most missions isn't even possible to exceed due to the mission itself having a time limit or level gimmick that will end it long before this mark. Eight specific missions have no such limitations, and can be cleared earning no trophy at all.

Also, for some reason, "Trial of the Damned" and "Beautiful Balloon" have bronze time limits of 9999 minutes instead of 999, which doesn't matter because both of them have round timers.

(Source: Big Yellow)