I did find that the few short cut scenes between matches featuring two commentators, who explain the very thin story line, seem to have received the short end of the stick with very basic and blocky animations and design. Animations for the players are what you’d expect from turn based games, with regular animations acted out on the spot, making them look as silly as ever, but hilarious at the same time.
This art style allows Blood Bowl 2 to provide unrealistic looking characters as well as stupidly over the top armour for Orcs and Ogres. The overall graphics have a cartoony/fantasy style to them and they really compliment the game’s whole premise. The animations are nothing short of what you’d expect from a Warhammer game and really add that fun twist to plays. To really focus this mechanic the game offers slow motion, and quite gory finishing animations to excite the player. You should understand that Blood Bowl 2 offers something that other sports games doesn’t – the ability to render enemy team mates unplayable by cracking them over the head, thus allowing you to run the ball to the end zone just the way you want to. Which brings me to my next point the glorious visuals and animations. Although I feel it isn’t particularly newbie friendly, I definitely think a lot of my personal problems came from my brain not letting the information sink in due to the fast nature or perhaps it was more down to the fact I was concentrating too hard on just knocking the big orcs to the floor in order to watch the gory animation! The online feature is a nice touch to Blood Bowl 2 as it makes a great past time at parties or gatherings allowing more than just the internal two people to play the game, thanks to its table-top like game play. I tried this with a friend who had also never played the game and still I lost miserably. The game does offer a multiplayer mode which allows you and a friend to go head to head in a “friendly” match – as friendly as caving each other’s skulls in can be – and battle it out to be champ. The tutorial at the beginning of the campaign was enough to walk me through the basics, but after that, the game pushed me out of the doors and made me figure the rest out by myself. I played the campaign for a good few days and really got a decent feel for the game, nether-the-less, it still struck me as quite a confusing sport to pick up for someone not used to this type of game play. My understanding of turn based games OR American football is next to nothing so going into this game I had no idea what to do… and to be honest, I still don’t.
You control each player one at time, planning routes for them to run and trying your hardest to knock out enemy players along the way.
Unlike other American football games, there are no set-plays provided and I personally see that as a real plus as it leaves this up to you and really pushes you to think outside the box. Each round is made up of two halves of eight turns or until one side scores a point.
11 teams mixed up of multiple races, with the main goal revolving around who can smash the most heads together before leisurely walking the ball into the end zone. Offering an experience not found by any other NFL game and creativity that goes way past the likes of other turn based games, Blood Bowl 2 will have you smashing faces and show-boating for endless hours of fun.Ī typical match consists of 11 vs. Blood Bowl 2 takes place within the GamesWorkshop universe and pits orcs, humans, dwarfs, elves and many more against each other, but this time on the football field.