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- Platform: Windows Vista / XP
- PEGI Rating: Ages 16 and Over
- Media: DVD-ROM
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Blood Bowl - The game of fantasy football. Based on the famous War hammer Fantasy world and American Football, Blood Bowl is a combination of a classic strategy game and a sports game. It's also an incredibly brutal game, where you lead your team through bone crunching leagues to compete in the prestigious Blood Bowl Cup! Create your team from the 8 playable races: Humans, Orcs, Wood Elves, Dwarfs, Skaven, Lizardmen, Chaos or Goblins and manage them as they gain experience through the many championships and tournaments taking place in the Old World.
No holds barred : Bribe the referee, foul your opponent as they whimper on the ground, hurl devastating fireballs from the stands or even sneak a chainsaw on the field, whatever it takes to defeat your opponent... But don't ever forget the ultimate purpose of the game: Get the ball into the End Zone and score touchdowns!
Two completely different game modes
Play the authentic turn-based Blood Bowl experience thanks to this faithful adaptation of Games Workshop's famous board game. Live the game in Real Time and unleash Blood Bowl's wrenching frenzy for spectacular and intense games!
A huge single player game
Take part in a complete Blood Bowl campaign and win trophies in 15 Championships and Cups. Each victory will allow your team to gain Star Player levels and new pieces of performance enhancing equipment.
The multiplayer competition at its best
Choose your own competition rules and create your own Championships.
Create a team online and take part in Leagues and Tournaments over the Internet to climb to the top of the official rankings!
Create your own Private League with your own competition rules and organize your own Tournaments!
Product Description
Blood Bowl is the videogame adaptation of Games Workshop's famous board game of the same name.No holds barred : Bribe the referee, foul your opponent as they whimper on the ground, hurl devastating fireballs from the stands or even sneak a chainsaw on the field, whatever it takes to defeat your opponent... But don't ever forget the ultimate purpose of the game: Get the ball into the End Zone and score touchdowns!
Two completely different game modes
Play the authentic turn-based Blood Bowl experience thanks to this faithful adaptation of Games Workshop's famous board game. Live the game in Real Time and unleash Blood Bowl's wrenching frenzy for spectacular and intense games!
A huge single player game
Take part in a complete Blood Bowl campaign and win trophies in 15 Championships and Cups. Each victory will allow your team to gain Star Player levels and new pieces of performance enhancing equipment.
The multiplayer competition at its best
Choose your own competition rules and create your own Championships.
Create a team online and take part in Leagues and Tournaments over the Internet to climb to the top of the official rankings!
Create your own Private League with your own competition rules and organize your own Tournaments!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I bought the game because I loved the idea of Blood bowl, and have been a determined Games Workship gamer for many years. When I found out that the makers of Chaos League (a game I enjoyed) were actively pursuing making a fully licensed version of the game they originally ripped off I held out high hopes.
This game unfotunately is a step backwards. From the unattractive screens and menu system, to the spectacularly uninteresting game animations, poor sound, atrocious commentary (the original Chaos League was at least humour filled) and a really quite unappealing single player challenge.
Throw in the online system being a bit flakey and all in all this is a disappointing product.
On the bright side:
1 - this is Blood Bowl. It's authentic, it ticks many of the boxes for boardgame players (though nothing beats holding the dice in your hands) and if you have a few mates then you can certainly set up an interesting competitive system.
2 - The support from the community and the company appears to be strong, which may ensure that this unpolished product may get better.
A couple of my friends really enjoy it and play it online, however out of the 3 I'm the only one to have played Chaos League and to therefore have some point of reference for just how little this title has been developed.
This game unfotunately is a step backwards. From the unattractive screens and menu system, to the spectacularly uninteresting game animations, poor sound, atrocious commentary (the original Chaos League was at least humour filled) and a really quite unappealing single player challenge.
Throw in the online system being a bit flakey and all in all this is a disappointing product.
On the bright side:
1 - this is Blood Bowl. It's authentic, it ticks many of the boxes for boardgame players (though nothing beats holding the dice in your hands) and if you have a few mates then you can certainly set up an interesting competitive system.
2 - The support from the community and the company appears to be strong, which may ensure that this unpolished product may get better.
A couple of my friends really enjoy it and play it online, however out of the 3 I'm the only one to have played Chaos League and to therefore have some point of reference for just how little this title has been developed.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I have bought this game already by the end of july over amazon.de and I am truly happy with this game. It had a lot of bugs in the beginning and there are still some stupid connection issues but once you get the game started it is a blast. Now after already 7 patches most of the functions and skills work properly. I hope they fix the opening ports problem soon. I only play the classic mode which is 1:1 identical to the rules of the original boardgame. The real-time mode is supposed to be a mess so I have never bothered trying it out for myself.
In order to be able to play this game you have to read the living rulebook which can be easily found on the internet. Otherwise if you haven't played the original you will have a pretty rough start. The single player mode is only for practicing. The AI is pretty lame, so there is no real challenge there whatsoever. But the true genius lies in the multiplayer leagues. You can either play single matches in the public league or start or join a private league. Private leagues are the best part in this game. You can create your own league with costum rules and start competing with your friends.
The graphics are quite nice for a "low-medium" budget game like this. The sound effects and sport commentators are great but unfortunately this game is completely lacking any music, but you can just switch on your winamp.
This game is a truely great adaptation of the original with all its brilliant and frustrating moments( the dices can really drive you mad). The only thing bothering me right now is the small amount of teams. The board game offers almost 20 here you get only 8. I miss my vampires, high elves, dark elves, the undead and so on. But I am sure there will be some updates coming.
So if you are in for a great strategic sport chess game I highly recommened it. A victory tastes delicious if it comes with a gallon of elf blood :-)But if you are looking for a sports game, don`t bother with this one.
In order to be able to play this game you have to read the living rulebook which can be easily found on the internet. Otherwise if you haven't played the original you will have a pretty rough start. The single player mode is only for practicing. The AI is pretty lame, so there is no real challenge there whatsoever. But the true genius lies in the multiplayer leagues. You can either play single matches in the public league or start or join a private league. Private leagues are the best part in this game. You can create your own league with costum rules and start competing with your friends.
The graphics are quite nice for a "low-medium" budget game like this. The sound effects and sport commentators are great but unfortunately this game is completely lacking any music, but you can just switch on your winamp.
This game is a truely great adaptation of the original with all its brilliant and frustrating moments( the dices can really drive you mad). The only thing bothering me right now is the small amount of teams. The board game offers almost 20 here you get only 8. I miss my vampires, high elves, dark elves, the undead and so on. But I am sure there will be some updates coming.
So if you are in for a great strategic sport chess game I highly recommened it. A victory tastes delicious if it comes with a gallon of elf blood :-)But if you are looking for a sports game, don`t bother with this one.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I started with the xbox 360 version of this game but then discovered the xbox version had a lot of stuff removed to speed up load times so for half the price i tried the PC version and was stunned by the amount of extra goodies i found like graphical armour upgrades and realistic hair and being able to see mutations on your chaos and scaven teams. theres also online leagues, some thing the xbox version only hints at but dosnt let you join.
So if you like bloodbowl get the PC version
So if you like bloodbowl get the PC version
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Good Fun
Good Fun game. Quite a tactical game which requires a bit of working out. I played the board game and this is a faithful representation. Read more
Published 4 months ago by K. W. McKee
Blood Bowl
Good game - but the required cliks to move things ae not intuative, and it is a very heavy processor user. This does give it good graphics however.
Published 7 months ago by Ian Shaw
Great game
If you like the board game then you will definitely like this game. It's got everything from the game, the rules, the violence, the humor and the atmosphere. Great entertainment.
Published 10 months ago by A. Met
Blood Bowl, no more, no less.
Pros-
A faithful port of the board game to the PC.
Beautifully designed players, again, faithful to the board game. Read more
A faithful port of the board game to the PC.
Beautifully designed players, again, faithful to the board game. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Kenndo
Near-perfect board game conversion!
Bloodbowl is a near-perfect conversion of the board game into a computer game with online capabilities.
Fun AI one-player mode plus good online matches! Read more
Fun AI one-player mode plus good online matches! Read more
Published on 5 May 2010 by Angus1903
Well, it's Blood Bowl...
This is a review of the single player aspect BTW. Have only played one Multi-Player game. Also there seems to be a "Blitz" mode but I have only played the classic turn-based... Read more
Published on 8 April 2010 by Colm De Cleir
Supremely addictive.
I first encountered Blood Bowl in the mid 1990s as a tabletop game which I played with friends. The rules were detailed, but at their core, pretty simple and the board game was... Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2010 by Gillyfish
Good fun but internet play sucks
A very good adaptation of the tabletop game, has all the rules right and is easy to control. I've only played it turn-based as I bought it mainly to play as if it were the board... Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2010 by Dan in London
Dual Screens
I am unable to load this game properly as I run dual screens - the graphics pixelate constantly and I am unable to play.
Still trying to find a solution to this.
Still trying to find a solution to this.
Published on 2 Dec 2009 by Mr. A. Wallis
played a couple of games...
And got beaten 14-0 in every single one of them. the players team mates AI is non exsistant so dont expect to just pick up and play this game right away after installing it. Read more
Published on 29 Nov 2009 by Mr. Iain A. Morrison
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