Vast Stadiums & Roaring Crowds For Blood Bowl II
March 6, 2014 by brennon
The original Blood Bowl game from Cyanide was pretty much a buggy mess. It was really badly tweaked for both console and PC and while they managed to get a lot of it sorted out by it's final edition the game just wasn't what Blood Bowl fans had been looking for. Blood Bowl II is looking a LOT better...
The guys behind the game seem to have vastly improved the look of the game breathing a lot more life and atmosphere into the experience. Added to that it appears as if the character models have jumped up in quality and the scale is now just insane.
The main thing for me however is that they keep the rules as tight to the actual board game as possible. Keep that on track and the animations between players and you will win over Blood Bowl players hearts. If not I imagine most will just go back to the FUMBBL version or the tabletop itself.
Let's hope we see some awesome gameplay soon.
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Its looking good! Too bad GW hasn’t put any effort into Bloodbowl the tabletop game, although Mantic’s Dreadball has got me covered these days.
What a cracking job cyanide are doing with this!
I may actually want to play this mmmm
I’ve enjoyed all of their digital incarnations so far, although I was always irritated by the way they would release each new edition as a stand alone game at full price when two extra teams, some extra pitches and some bug fixes really should have been sold as DLC.
..but yeah, I’ll probably pick this up 🙂
I hope they dice rolls are truly random this time instead of the way it currently is were al dice rolls are already pregenerated into groups in a table before the game begins, and then just randomly picks a group of dice from the appropriate table depending on how many dice are thrown.
And by the way, i see trollcrack in pic nr:3 😀
I hope this version will be available for Mac users as well… I completely missed the first one because of this. 🙁
I actually quite enjoyed the original, warts and all. My Undead team will rise again in this version!
When’s Dreadball coming? 🙂
If they made a Dreadball game, the whole world would hear me scream with excitement!!….screaming like a little girl……..
….but seriously, that would be awesome.
I agree with bobblehead. The fixed dice rolls destroyed anye njoyment I got from the first game. People swear it’s not fixes, that they’ve looked through the code themselves and found no ‘cheat’ code to help the AI win. But regardless, when my characters with high relevant stats fail to pick the ball up 9 times out of 10 and their skaven (notiously bad at picking the ball up arent they?) pick it up every time… something’s wrong. But these screens look amazing and I genuinely hope it’s fun to play this time 😀 @vonjunk I thought about doing a… Read more »
Never really been interested in Dread Ball, shots like this inspire me to think about giving one of these types a go both on a console and on the table top.
BloodBowl is the King. Long live the King!
I’m thinking a BoW Bloodbowl league could come to fruition.
Why oh why will GW not bring out a new version of this. I remember playing on the chunky polystyrene three part pitch in the early 90’s, it was awesome.
While they are at it they could also bring back Space Hulk, happy days!
and Mordheim….
Waiting for the day Cyanide bring back AT-43 ( they got the AT-43 I.P. when they bought Confrontation from Rackham ) …… the best sci-fi game i have played.
Bank of Altdorf… nuff said
Its where Blood Bowl rightly deserves to live on, I was on the first one and Ill be on with this hopeing its a direct cross over.
Didnt really get into blood bowl (computer game) but I still love playing Chaos league