Blood Bowl (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Blood Bowl

Blood Bowl is a combination of a tactical and sports game. The basics are extremely simple: two teams, one ball. The team that carries the ball into the opponent's end zone scores a touchdown, the team with…

45 26 June 2009

What Blood Bowl is

Blood Bowl is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Cyanide Studio and released in 2009. It was published by Focus Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Blood Bowl is a combination of a tactical and sports game. The basics are extremely simple: two teams, one ball. The team that carries the ball into the opponent's end zone scores a touchdown, the team with the most touchdowns at the end of the game is the winner. However, it’s how you decide to do this that makes things interesting, the ends justify the means! It’s not just the players you have at your disposal either. You can bribe the referee to look the other way as you cripple or trample annoying opponents and hire illegal wizards to give you a hand directly from the crowd… Blood Bowl severely tests the finest tacticians' strategies. There are many races to accommodate every player’s…

Description from the publisher · source

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 ninth of 95 entries we hold in the Warhammer series. It arrived 9 months after Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. The next entry was Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition in 2010. Its critic score of 45 is 20 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 holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 22 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Blood Bowl launched on 26 June 2009, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Trine Enchanted Edition, Trine and Prototype. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Trine Enchanted Edition, Trine, Prototype.

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