Bomberman World is a maze action video game developed and published by Hudson Soft for the PlayStation. The game was also re-released for PCs in 2002 alongside the TurboGrafx-16 version of Bomberman and Bomberman '93 as part of a compilation disc titled Bomberman Collection.

The Story Behind Bomberman World

When obstacles are blown up, items frequently drop from them. Higher points will result in a positive ranking (like Good Bomber) and low points will result in a negative ranking (like Worst Bomber). Bad Bomber is an option that allows a defeated player to hover around the edge of the map and shoot bombs onto the map in hopes of taking out other Bombers.

The battle armor is only used for the boss battles, meaning once the player advances to the next world, the battle armor will be lost. Setting the Bad Bomber option to "Super" results in the event that a Bad Bomber kills a Bomber, that Bad Bomber will come back to life. The ancient ancestors of the Bombermen managed to stop them by imprisoning the Dark Force Bombers within the Blue Crystal.

How Bomberman World Plays

When a game ends, the player is ranked on the number of points they acquired before they lost or won. This mode allows the player to play a special level with a predetermined amount of time to complete (only options are two-minutes and five-minutes), as well picking a selection of items to start with. There are other options that can be determined, like number of rounds to win in order to win altogether, time limit for each round, Sudden Death, Bad Bomber, and others.

It is unclear whether or not the rankings have anything to do with the game (because there is no High-Score board) other than being a self-accomplishment for the player to achieve the best ranking possible. Millions of years later, Bagular, appearing from another point in the time-space continuum, destroyed the Blue Crystal, thus freeing the villains. Higher points will result in a positive ranking (like Good Bomber) and low points will result in a negative ranking (like Worst Bomber).

Why Players Still Load It Up

It is now up to Bomberman to save the worlds from evil. To be able to complete each level, the player must locate and pick up all of the Crystals on the map. They also said that the single-player mode was monotonous and commented that the previous installments were better.

Long ago, there were four evil Bombers known as the Dark Force Bombers who sought to plunge the Bomberman world into darkness. There are different modes to play at, such as "Single Match" and "Maniac Mode", and the player or players are able to choose one of ten different unique maps to battle on, each map having a different twist and theme to the gameplay. GamePros Francis Mao praised the game's responsive controls, soundscapes, and crisp graphics, but felt that the angled perspective was not as effective as the direct camera view and that some backgrounds were too detailed to follow the on-screen action.

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