Blood Bowl

26. June 2009

Combined rating

User + critics

based on 17 ratings

Strategy Turn-based strategy (TBS) Real Time Strategy (RTS) Sport

PC (Microsoft Windows) Xbox 360 iOS Nintendo DS PlayStation Portable

Summary

Blood Bowl is a combination of a tactical and sports game. The basics are extremely simple: two teams, one ball. The team that carries the ball into the opponent's end zone scores a touchdown, the team with the most touchdowns at the end of the game is the winner. However, it’s how you decide to do this that makes things interesting, the ends justify the means! It’s not just the players you have at your disposal either. You can bribe the referee to look the other way as you cripple or trample annoying opponents and hire illegal wizards to give you a hand directly from the crowd… Blood Bowl severely tests the finest tacticians' strategies. There are many races to accommodate every player’s profile (23 in the Chaos Edition, 20 in the Legendary Edition, 9 in the Standard Edition) and even more strategies for experimenting. Winning a game requires a strong game-sense and a lot of self-control. For the player's enjoyment, omnipresent humour and the use of spells, weapons, and other non-regulatory actions place Blood Bowl outside of the classic sport simulation genre.

Developers

Cyanide Studio

Publishers

Focus Entertainment

IGDB user rating

80.8

15 ratings

Critic rating

45.0

2 ratings

Combined rating

62.9