Blood Bowl

Once upon a time, in a decade far far away, a game existed that allowed you to pit two teams of upgradable, armoured, gridiron-inspired and generally badass players against each other in order to throw a metallic orb around a futuristic, industrial...

Blood Bowl seems to be the result of a fiendish coupling between extremely inflexible Warhammer lore and a studio hamstrung by licensing requirements. It's not exactly intuitive, and requires significant investment and patience to see...

Version Reviewed - PC What is Blood Bowl? Based on Games Workshops long-running, dice-throwing board game, Blood Bowl is a fantasy football game, loosely based on American Football and set in the Warhammer universe, where, goblins, orcs, trolls and...

Each of the races play into stereotypical strengths and weaknesses on the field, like Orcs favouring a ‘blitzkrieg’ style approach while Elves prefer agility and long passes to secure touchdowns. Much like the table-top game of Warhammer...

Consider Cyanide's previous title Chaos Legion, a 2004 strategy title that was pretty much Blood Bowl - a turn-based, hyper-violent ode to American football in a fantasy setting - in everything but name. Games Workshop were a bit miffed with...

Despite the interface and graphics problems, Blood Bowl is fresh enough that most turn-based gamers will find it both surprising and exciting. There arent many games available for any platform which provide the same quirky, but strategically...

Since they can be turned off or disregarded, none of these flouncy additions take away from the fact that Blood Bowl is, at its core, a highly competent conversion of a classic tabletop game. It needs more team customisation options (two-colour strip...

In 1987, Games Workshop decided that football didn’t feature enough Orcs with spiked armor. So, it transformed the old gridiron sport into an ultraviolent tabletop game of war. Over twenty years have passed since the birth of Blood Bowl - and even...