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Blood Bowl
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Our Price: $35.65
List Price: $39.99
Your Save: $ 4.34 ( 11% )
Sales Rank: #1706 (lower is better)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Southpeak
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Amazon Maximum Age: 20
Amazon Minimum Age: 144
Brand: Southpeak
EAN: 0612561500518
Format: DVD-ROM
Manufacturer: Southpeak
Model: 50051
Release Date: 2010-01-26
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
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Blood Bowl Features
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- Two completely different game modes: play the authentic, turn-based Blood Bowl experience or live the game in Real Time Mode
- A huge single player game; take part in a complete Blood Bowl campaign with 15 Championships and Cups or choose your own competition rules and create your own Championships
- Develop your team by gaining new levels and pieces of performance-enhancing equipment
- The multiplayer competition at its best; create a team online and take part in leagues and tournaments over the Internet
- Create your own online Private League with your own competition rules
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Blood Bowl Description
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Blood Bowl - the game of fantasy football. Based on the famous Warhammer 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 bonecrunching leagues to compete in the prestigious Blood Bowl Cup! Create your team from the 8 playable races: Humans, Orcs, Wood Elves, Dwarves, 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 onto 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!
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Blood Bowl customer reviews:
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The computer version we waited for!
Blood Bowl is one of the storied board games. A combination of hand painted miniatures, board and comprehensive rules it commands a devoted following. Blood Bowl games are a staple in any gamming room BUT the game was never successfully computerized. The first try resulted in a better than nothing game that had the title and some of the ideas but lacked the depth and complexity of the board game.
This version maintains the depth of the board game while adding a real time game. Based on the "live rules" and faithful to them, this is a very good computerized version of the board game. The turn-based game is the board game with an assistant handling all the rules and die rolls. In addition, there is an opponent always ready to play and no set up or clean up time required. In the "Blitz Mode", you play in real time with all the rules and options included.
The graphics are a joy! The true to type races are in constant movement. Cheerleaders, refs and spectators add to the eye candy. The varied places for the pitch show real thought and care.
There is a learning curve! This is NOT a beer n pretzel game and that carries into this version. In addition to many rules, you will need to master the computer controls. It took me a couple of tries and some reading to just move my players. Now I am adjusting to dangers or advantages in selecting their path. Blitz mode beckons but right now the traditional turn based game is what I play.
The Internet contains a very active Blood Bowl presence. The computer game is well represented and fully supported by the developers. When ready, there is a full on-line world of competition waiting for me. The game's AI is not bad and very lucky on some forums or a cheater on others. The important thing is this game has an AI that plays rather well and can win or tie a good deal of the time.
This version contains the new Dark Elf race in addition to Humans, Orcs, Dwarfs, Skaven, Lizardmen, Goblins, Chaos and Wood Elves. Each fully animated race has different strengths and weaknesses. When you learn to win with one race, switching to another produces a new set of challenges. We hope to see additional races from the board game added over time. The Dark Elves were a free download from the Blood Bowl site.
The game allows you to play single turn based or real time game with predefined teams for all the races. There is a full campaign version included and instructions for on-line play in leagues.
What is Blood Bowl? Many years from now, in a world very different from ours, where magic works and the races are always at war, they found a copy of football rules. Little by little, the game stopped war by allowing the races to work off their aggressions and frustrations on the pitch. They did not really understand all of the rules and modified the game to fit their personalities. Bribing the Ref, fouling a player, injuries and death are all part of a normal game. Watch out for the fans, that twelfth whatever is a clear and present danger!
Not ready for prime time.
It may be that i'm a long time fan of the game. But the game just does not thrill me as any of the other versions. It doesnt feel complete, which it isnt, just go to their website to realize why i say that. Also some of the controls dont feel as intuitive as in some versions of the game.My opinion, wait for the new version.
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