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Blood Bowl Review

Release Date: June 26, 2009
Format: PC Windows, Xbox 360, PSP, Nintendo DS, Board Game
Publisher: Focus Home Interactive
Developer: Cyanide
Genre: Sports, Real-time strategy, Turn-based strategy
Players: 1-2 players offline/online
Our Score
2.0
VN:F [1.9.3_1094]
User Score:
154 votes
4.2

Blood Bowl Review

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The Short Version: While Blood Bowl is a faithful recreation of the boardgame, ultimately it feels like a budget title that you wont play for long. Its made worse by the fact that the Xbox 360 version is gutted sorry excuse for a port and without online leagues! If your interested in blood bowl, only consider the PC version but better yet, seek out the board game!


Blood Bowl Angry Review

What you’ll Like:
• The Turn-Based Mode is a faithful 100% recreation of the board game.
• Interesting seeing all the animations that you envisioned in your head playing the board game.
• The offline campaign has all the bells and whistles, sponsorship, cheerleaders, team management – Too bad its a bore to play.

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What you’ll Hate:
• The game feels like an Xbox Live Arcade title masquerading as a Full Retail Release. Not worth the $40.
• Online Leagues in the Xbox 360 Version have been Stripped out of the game. Your stats, upgrades, and progressions do not carry over into other matches at all.
• The “Real-Time” mode is a mess, whats the point? Its essentially a “pause-able” turn-based mode, without turnovers – I liked the effort to Innovate but It wasn’t executed. Why not try “real” football as in Mutant League?
• Poor Customization options for your team (only two team colors; blue and red – and you cant even choose!).
• Commentary gets annoying after the first hour of play, with no volume control and lacking video/audio options in pause menu.

Final Verdict:
Xbox: 2/10
A Worthless Insult

PC: 5/10
Average

The Board Game: 8/10
A Recommended Great Game!

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*Note this episode had a small error in the size of my “Telecaster”. Some of you may know my PC had crashed twice in the past week, I was able to recover this file with the help of the Angry Joe TechDivision! (my computer-smart followers over twitter/facebook), this was the only version that was recoverable, but its sure is better than it being lost forever. Big Thanks to you guys!

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Blood Bowl Review, 4.2 out of 10 based on 154 ratings
Posted by Angry Joe | 10 Mar 2010 | Game Reviews, News, Video Reel

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  1. cadeau
    cadeau says
    VA:F [1.9.3_1094]
    -2

    Howdy just wanted to give you a quick heads up. The text in your content seem to be running off the screen in Safari. I’m not sure if this is a formatting issue or something to do with browser compatibility but I thought I’d post to let you know. The layout look great though! Hope you get the problem solved soon. Kudos

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     Posted: 19 Aug 11 at 7:27am  
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  2. Roxas
    Roxas says
    VA:F [1.9.3_1094]
    -6

    I think this review was a tad biased

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     Posted: 26 Jul 11 at 6:37pm  
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  3. Julian Andreassen
    ODST says
    VN:F [1.9.3_1094]
    +2

    this game is awesome….. throughout the game, i just sat there making a chaos team only making mutations on them, well, it wasnt that super good, but i enjoyed it the time i played it

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     Posted: 05 Jul 11 at 4:26pm  
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  4. awsomeDualshock says
    VN:F [1.9.3_1094]
    +2

    didnt they make a second version on steam?

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     Posted: 11 May 11 at 7:23pm  
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    • The14th
      The14th says
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      No, but they did just release the Legendary Edition. The new edition adds in the rest of the teams from the tabletop game, a new story mode (which is a good way to feel out all the teams, know thine enemy), and it at least feels like they did some bug fixing. You get a discount on it if you already own the first release on steam (it was also severly marked down in the recent Summer Sale).

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       Posted: 10 Jul 11 at 4:23pm  
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  5. danik
    danik says
    VA:F [1.9.3_1094]
    +1

    aaa i would like to know what group it was in 1:10 :) )

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     Posted: 14 Mar 11 at 2:31am  
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  6. danik
    danik says
    VA:F [1.9.3_1094]
    +1

    OO MY GOD!! did he die there?? 1:15 holly fuck!

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     Posted: 14 Mar 11 at 2:19am  
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