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Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition

Blood Bowl 2 smashes Warhammer and American football together, in an explosive cocktail of turn-based strategy, humour and brutality, adapted from Games Workshop's famous boardgame. The Legendary Edition…

86 5 September 2017 ESRB M

Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Cyanide Studio, released 5 September 2017 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition is

Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Cyanide Studio and released in 2017. It was published by Focus Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Blood Bowl 2 smashes Warhammer and American football together, in an explosive cocktail of turn-based strategy, humour and brutality, adapted from Games Workshop's famous boardgame. The Legendary Edition contains all the official races from the Blood Bowl board game, including the sly Goblins, as well as a brand new race, the Kislev Circus and their ferocious Tame Bears! Experience new game modes such as the brand new Solo Career mode, or the new Challenge mode, which will put your wits and skills to the test through crazy and challenging game situations.
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How it plays

Its themes are comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Warhammer 40,000 series

Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition is the 63rd of 136 entries we hold in the Warhammer 40,000 series. The next entry was Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach - Sons of Cadia in 2017. Its critic score of 86 is 15 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader - Void Shadows at 100.

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How it was received

Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 15 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition launched on 5 September 2017, within three weeks of Destiny 2, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II and Doki Doki Literature Club!. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Destiny 2, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II, Doki Doki Literature Club!.

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When did Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition come out?
Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition was released on 5 September 2017 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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