Worms crawls out of the App Store ground

We’ve been loving up those iPhone Worms for the last couple of weeks, after we paid Team17 a visit at its underground Yorkshire lair for an exclusive hands on with the anticipated iPhone invertebrate war.

The game went live on the App Store over the weekend and brings the immensely popular turn-based artillery game from the Amiga to the iPhone, with a spruced up rendition that was built on the foundations of the recent PS3 edition.

All the eccentric weaponry we’ve come to expect from the wriggly warmongers has been fully included (the jet pack, exploding sheep, concrete donkeys and ninja ropes are present and correct, you’ll be glad to hear) with carefully redesigned controls for each and every aspect to ensure the game remains as playable as ever on the touchscreen.

Already mumblings can be heard echoing around the interwebs about the lack of multiplayer, but rest assured the online battles are in the works for Worms’s updates. The game will soon feature full wi-fi, Bluetooth and 3G multiplayer connectivity, with the servers currently being built at the Team17 studios, so there’ll be no reliance on outside servers to get you connected to a slithery siege.

The iPhone 3GS already boasts an improved framerate, and will soon have additional particle effects, refractive water reflections, shaders and possibly even bubbles when your Worms drown.

So now is the ideal time to train your wriggly warriors in the fine art of invertebrate destruction, so you’re prepared for war when Worms goes multiplayer.