1994 Super Hero Is Back This Time in HD – Earthworm Jim HD Review

Groovy……

Earthworm Jim is back, this time on the PSN in beautiful HD.

For those who don’t remember 1994, it was an awesome year. It was also when an ordinary earthworm acquired, through a series of cosmic craziness, a space suit that mutated the puny earthworm into an intergalactic Space Hero. It was on the Sega Genesis and it ate many hours of my 14 year old life. I downloaded this bitch yesterday and ran through the first couple of levels no problem.

Gameloft ported the original game and apparently added some new bonus levels and 4 player split screen, plus washed the whole thing in HD. The result, FANTASTIC. If you are a fan of the 2-d side scrolling action than this is the game for you. The game is dated, but that’s a good thing! All the original humor is still woven into this game and I was cracking up while busting out my mad skills. Some highlights with my 1^st run thru include, launching a cow using a refrigerator, racing my arch nemesis Psy-Crow in a wormhole after every level to get to the next one, blasting crows and rabid dogs with my space gun, using my earthworm head as both a whip and helicopter, rode a rouge hamster, and beat 3 bosses. My demise finally came during a bungee battle where I had defeat a mutated snot by bumping the booger into the cliff walls to break its line all while avoiding this space snot doing the same thing to me and contending with a 1 eyed monster that chomped at me every time I was near the bottom, word.

It looks like I will be seeing all my favorites in this game, PsyCrow, Major Mucas, Rusty the Snowman,  Bob the Killer Gold Fish, Evil the Cat, Chuck and Fifi, and Queen Slug Butt all to save Prince-Whats-Her-Face(that is her name for reals). There is so many original charters in this game I could on and on and on……

Lets face it, its all about gameplay and the HD translation is perfectly. If you used to play this game back in 94’ than you know 1 thing, this game IS FUCKING HARD!!! Luckily Gameloft gave you 4 levels of play, easy, normal, hard and Original. Original was so hard it got its own damn category.

I haven’t tackled the multiplayer yet, but I hear you can run through the levels split screen style with 3 other friends, sound like mayhem.

This throw back is priced at a cool $9.99, so even cheap ass mofo’s like yourself can afford it. If you own a Playstation 3 or X-Box 360 download this game TODAY, don’t be a pansy.

Earthworm Jim HD get 4 worm filled meat slabs

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