Blood Bowl Review
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.
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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67 thoughts on “Blood Bowl Review”
My son seen me watching this episode and said to me “Dad why is he calling that football ?” because i live in Australia, football to me is Rugby League (GO Cantabury Bulldogs) He then asked do monster really play football ? heheh i couldnt stop laughing. But the funiest thing of all was he walked back up the hallway singing “Angryyyyy Jooooooeeeee”
one of the best ways they can improve this to make it not have that lackluster of play is make it a rpg element Nfl blitz type game i enjoyed it how it is but then i look at it as more of a turn based RTS but meh everyone has their opinion
I found it for $10 at Gamestop the other day (for the 360) and picked it up. I figured “Hey, I don’t want to spend an outrageous amount on the board game, and even though Joe said it sucked, I figure it’s worth $10 for the chance to at least try Blood Bowl”. We’ll see if I’m right, haven’t gotten around to playing it yet.
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I think this review was a tad biased
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
didnt they make a second version on steam?
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).
aaa i would like to know what group it was in 1:10
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OO MY GOD!! did he die there?? 1:15 holly fuck!