Earthworm Jim

The characters are of a good stature, they all have an original look and have excellent animation. The animation must be seen to be believed, it's some of the smoothest ever seen in a video game in my opinion. Small graphical touches like snot coming off of your opponent in the bunjie jump levels or Jim's humorous waiting animations round out the beautiful graphics.

The clear voice effects and music score make this game friendly to the ears. Earthworm Jim is a stand-up comedian and sometimes, he just likes to sing. The booming and sometimes hilarious sound effects are really cool too.

Earthworm Jim is one of the better games for the Sega Genesis, with it's very diverse and a little strange levels and creative characters it is sure to be a game that will have you hooked for a while. You will be doing everything from racing a crow in a space suit to bungee jumping with a chunk of snot.

Jim the Earthworm is one character to remember. The earthworm dressed in a robotic suits who fought enemies was complex. He could run, shoot, swing on hooks and use power-ups for the blaster. I remember how good the in-between levels looked, when Earthworm Jim was placed in a semi-3D environment to race against Psycrow. Unlike other games, Jim didn't have to fight the bosses, but to find their weaknesses and exploit it. This was something new during an age of violent fights between chracters and bosses.

A worm is hiding in his hole, trying to escape a hungry crow. Wondering if it is safe for him to come out, I he sticks his head out. He looks left and right, unaware of a suit falling from the sky.

By the time the worm sees the suit coming, it is too late to get out of the way. The suit lands on top of him, completely covering his body.

A strange interaction of the worm's flesh and the suit's particles creates a mutation of the worm's body and brain, transforming him into "Earthworm Jim." The suit has come from a battle in space where Psy-Crow is trying to retrieve a stolen suit. Amidst the chaos, the suit gets lost and and sees Jim and the suit, and thus begins the chase.

Earthworm Jim Suits Up For Action.

A Slim but powerful Jim:

Here's the deal. Jim (regular worm) gets hit by a falling indestructible robonic suit and becomes superhero-size. On his tail is a bounty hunter named Psy-Crow. You gotta take out Queen Pulsating, Bloated, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-Filled, Malformed, Slug-for-a-Butt, and save Princess What's Her Name (the Queen's less-than-identical sister). Whew. Talk about yer rough day for a grub.

Jim's relationship with the suit is somewhat tenuous. Sometimes Jim can control the suit, and sometimes the suit controls Jim's movements and actions. Often Jim is just a suit accessory. You use the worm as an additional appendage while moving head over hand across chains (the second hand is holding the Plasma Blaster). Jim is used as a whip, as a jump rope, and for tons of sight gags that humiliate our invertebrate hero and no doubt make him feel like a...well...worm.

Segmented Fun fur The Whole Family:

Earthworm Jim requires you to bring all your game-play talents to the table. This isn't some blind run-'n-gun that has you just holding down the shoot button while running to the right. You get plenty of practice with your Plasma Blaster (it fires in 64 directions), but you'll also have a fine time learning the intricacies of Worm Whipping your way up collections of hooks, Head Helicoptering through seas of spikes, controlling a submersible pod (with very limited air) through rock mazes, riding a rocket through waves of asteroids while fending off Psy-Crow, chasing a runaway suit while in pure lowly worm form, and more.

Jim was created by the same group of game hounds that did the work on the blockbuster Genesis tide Aladdin. They've even, improved the animation processes that made Aladdin so spectacular. The result? Jim is a visual feast, as well as a heck of a game. With his hilarious digitized great cartoon sound speech effects, and tons of keep-you-inter -in-the-volume-on tunes, Earthworm Jim will have you waiting with baited breath (sorry) for your turn at the controls.

Overview:

There's joy in Mudville. Inspired greatness is about to make the processors on your Genesis squeeze out every bit of their power. Who'd have predicted there'd be all this fuss over a lowly, dirt-eating, pink-sectioned worm? Earthworm Jim from Playmates Interactive Entertainment and Shiny Entertainment is about to make the Action fans of the world a bunch of very happy gamers. This one-player cart sets new standards for originality, varied play types, and sheer gotta-play-it frolic. One thing, though — this cart is no cakewalk. Jim's gonna kick your butt, and even worse, you're gonna like it. This is a game that should cause fear in the hearts of average programmers the world over.

Bovine Bewilderment:

One of the great conundrums of the game is the Launching of the Cow in the first stage. You send the longhorn sailing by whipping the fridge. Keep your eyes peeled, and you'll see your flying steer / in each level. Why all the beef? We're not tellin'. There's no way you're gonna milk the answer out of us.

Deep Sea Tubes:

Jim checks out the fine art of hamster riding. Use the Fire button as your Chomp button.

Intestines (Exclusive Genesis Level):

The Genesis version of Earthworm Jim has more powerful compression techniques than the SNES. The extra space gets you more music, more sounds, an exclusive level, more animation sequences, and more overall fun. We're betting this makes you feel really guilty about those poor Nintendon't owners who are missing out. Sure. Yeah, right. Check out the Intestines level for yourself.

Jim, When Left in His Own Devices:

One of the many wonders of Jim is the number of idle animations he has in this version (that other system has fewer because of compression differences). The Genesis rendition has eight constant animations and a few that relate to individual levels (find 'em).