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Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition

Inspired by the Warhammer Fantasy world, Blood Bowl is an ultra-violent combination of strategy and sports games. The Legendary Edition features 20 playable races, including 11 that are totally new, each…

60 28 October 2010 ESRB T

Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition is a sport developed by Cyanide Studio, released 28 October 2010 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition is

Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition is a sport game developed by Cyanide Studio and released in 2010. It was published by Focus Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Inspired by the Warhammer Fantasy world, Blood Bowl is an ultra-violent combination of strategy and sports games. The Legendary Edition features 20 playable races, including 11 that are totally new, each offering its own game style! Make a competitive team, train it and buy the best equipment. Brutal victory after victory, improve your players' skills to make them into true Blood Bowl players! This is a no holds barred bonecrunching sport! Even if tactics are your favoured route, you can also choose from a large selection of incredible and vicious moves: bribe the ref, devastating spells or illegal weapons… Blood Bowl Legendary Edition also includes new stadiums and new game modes such as…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person 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: Legendary Edition is the tenth of 95 entries we hold in the Warhammer series. It arrived a year after Blood Bowl. The next entry was Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes in 2012. Its critic score of 60 is 5 points below the series average of 65. The highest-rated entry is Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning at 90.

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How it was received

Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Pentium 4 2.4 GHZ/AthlonXP 2400+, 1GB (XP)/ 2GB (Vista/7) of RAM and 128 MB 100% DirectX® 9 and shaders 2.0 compatible (NVIDIA GEFORCE 6600 / ATI RADEON X700 or higher) Not compatible with SLI. Intel, SIS and Via/S3G graphics controllers non-supported. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB.

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What it launched against

Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition launched on 28 October 2010, within three weeks of Fallout: New Vegas, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Call of Duty: Black Ops. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fallout: New Vegas, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Call of Duty: Black Ops.

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Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition — frequently asked questions

When did Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition come out?
Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition was released on 28 October 2010 for PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition?
At minimum, Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition needs Pentium 4 2.4 GHZ/AthlonXP 2400+, 1GB (XP)/ 2GB (Vista/7) of RAM, 128 MB 100% DirectX® 9 and shaders 2.0 compatible (NVIDIA GEFORCE 6600 / ATI RADEON X700 or higher) Not compatible with SLI. Intel, SIS and Via/S3G graphics controllers non-supported graphics, 5 GB of storage.
How many GB is Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition?
The PC version needs about 5 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("5 GB"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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