Blood Bowl
The year is 2488 and all the races of the Known World come together in a celebration of pride, honor, skill and mindless violence. NAF Blood Bowl. Welcome to MicroLeague’s PC version of the award winning game…
Blood Bowl is a sport developed by MicroLeague, released 31 December 1995 on DOS.
What Blood Bowl is
Blood Bowl is a sport game developed by MicroLeague and released in 1995. It is available on DOS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The year is 2488 and all the races of the Known World come together in a celebration of pride, honor, skill and mindless violence. NAF Blood Bowl. Welcome to MicroLeague’s PC version of the award winning game from Games Workshop, Ltd. Blood Bowl is an epic conflict between two teams of armed insane warriors. Most have no idea why they are waging such ferocious battles, but they like it. Players pass, throw or run an inflated pig’s bladder into their opponents’ End Zone, while the other team, naturally - or unnaturally - tries to stop them.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Warhammer series
Blood Bowl is the second of 95 entries we hold in the Warhammer series. The next entry was Warhammer: Dark Omen in 1998. Its critic score of 50 is 15 points below the series average of 65. The highest-rated entry is Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning at 90.
How it was received
Blood Bowl holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 12% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 16 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Blood Bowl launched on 31 December 1995, within three weeks of Suikoden, Neo Turf Masters, Tales of Phantasia and Loaded. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Suikoden, Neo Turf Masters, Tales of Phantasia, Loaded.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Quick answers
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