Each of your players can be moved, or instructed to do things like attack opposition players, pick up or run with the ball. The actual Blood Bowl games, happily, are quite fun to play – in part due to the fact that they only bear the loosest resemblance to American Football, so there are no hideously complex plays or the like to memorise and execute. Unfortunately, when plunge into some action, their commentary swiftly becomes annoyingly repetitive.
The single-player campaign is linked and commentated on by a vampire and an ogre, called Jim and Bob respectively, who come out with some mildly amusing banter that revels in the mindless violence which forms a large part of the game. Visually, it conjures images of heavy metal tribute bands.īeyond the aesthetics, it has a jokey, unsophisticated, again heavy metal-type vibe. Imagine painted Dungeons & Dragons figurines brought to digital life and you’ll pretty much have a handle on its look. It’s easy enough to negotiate, whether you’re navigating its menu systems or engaging in some gameplay, and the leap to the current-gen consoles has added hitherto undreamt-of levels of crispness to the graphics, although visually it won’t impress you if you prefer your games to belong to the artier end of the spectrum. The original Blood Bowl game had a distinctly amateurish feel to it, with an infuriatingly unintuitive interface and graphics that were best described as rough around the edges, but Blood Bowl 2 has more or less banished such flaws. Which is only to be expected, since it was derived from a Games Workshop board game.
And as if that wasn’t unfashionable enough, it’s also turn-based. Conceptually, it requires its audience to possess a wide streak of geekiness, since it somehow manages to combine American Football and Warhammer, complete with orcs, dwarves and the like. If you feel that modern games have become rather too similar, then Blood Bowl 2 might pique your interest: there’s certainly no mistaking it for anything else.
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