Earthworm Jim

"Eat Dirt"

This morning, I: wake up, go to school, come home, take a look at my Xbox, PS2, PSX, and Sega Genesis.
I turn on my Sega Genesis. In the mood for something randomly stupid, I pop in Earthworm Jim (before
turning on the console, of course) and play that sucker until my Sega is starting to warm up. It was fun
bungie jumping fighting against a hunk of snot, riding a giant hamster, and dueling against a chicken
thing riding on the back of a rocket ship. I get off my Sega after finishing the game, feeling like the
game wasn't missing something: It had something it shouldn't have. Which was the enemies that can't die.
That, and those minigames in between every level. Listen to it in the text below.

GRAPHICS
Well, these are some very nice graphics for Sega Genesis. I own over 50 Genesis games, and Earthworm Jim
ranks upon the highest when it comes to graphics. It's not THE best for Sega, but great nevertheless.
The game has nice animations, and I have yet to see it slow down. The graphics could be called
equivalent to games like Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure (You're a worm, though.) Good graphics, but you
shouldn't judge the game on just that. Some of the enemies can't die unless you use a plasma gun,
which there are hardly any of on each level. Some levels have none.
8/10

SOUND
The music in this game is funny, and you'll like it, I think. The music in the level ''What the Heck?''
is classic Hell music, and switches to... Well, play it for yourself. Varied sound effects, for all
different actions that Jim does. The music isn't ground breaking, but you might find yourself
humming the tunes to Evil the Cat's battle music. The music in the minigames is ok, but nothing
special.
7/10

GAMEPLAY
A whopping 24 megs. Yeah. Well, for 24 Megs of pure play action (It even says so on the box!) it did
a good job of fitting it all in there. It's not as good gameplay as Gunstar Heroes (one of the best
games ever) but you can do quite a bit, including shooting while jumping, attacking with your gun
at just about any time, in any direction, and there are a lot of things Jim can do. Now if only he
could shoot and jump...
7/10

CONTROL
Ok, this is where it gets choppier than all the other elements of this game. The controls are not
the best. I died three times while trying to get past this stupid bubble level (you are in a glass
bubble, and control what direction you go in...) and a few more times on the battle against the
snot. The minigames have good controls, but shooting while standing on a narrow platform is bad.
You have to start shooting and THEN aim to hit enemies that are diagonal to Jim. Not good controls.
Not good. One more thing, you can't switch weapons. You have to use one weapon until you are out
of ammo. Also not good.
5/10

REPLAY
This game is kind of a thing you can only do once or twice... No passwords make it so you can't
go to your favorite part of the game, but there are cheats for that. Cheater. Uh, the game itself
is pretty long, but the mini games ARE ALL THE SAME. I mean, they could at least add some extra stuff
like aliens or UFOs or something. The snot game is really cool though. Hard, but one of the most fun
parts of the game.
6/10

OVERALL
Well, given the average of the elements, the average score would be a 6.6. But being the nice guy
that I am (cough) I will give it a 7. Actually, it get's another .4 for being so randomly stupid.
7/10

Randomly stupid is a good thing.

Reviewer's Score: 7/10, Originally Posted: 04/26/02, Updated 04/26/02