I've already talked a LOT about Blood Bowl in various threads, so I will keep this review to commenting on the quality of this port. Long story short, it's adiquate for local multiplayer, but the single player is fairly dire.
Mechanically, it works mostly fine. There was a bug I remember running into fairly commonly in Legendary Edition on PC where it just scrambles a player or two once you set them up for the kick off and there's nothing you can do about it, and that only happened ONE time during the 30+ hours I put into this version. Going from using a mouse to a joystick and buttons takes a little getting used to, but ultimately it's very technically competent. A little note extra, there is actually a fair bit of announcer dialogue which isn't present in Legendary Edition in this game, for those that might care. That's likely in the original PC release of Blood Bowl as well though. Now, the single player I'm in two minds about. At first, I like it because it has a speed-up feature which essentially allows you to skip the AI's turns. This is a feature that (to the best of my knowledge) Legendary Edition, Chaos Edition, and Blood Bowl II ALL do not have, so that's really nice. What ISN'T so nice is how ABYSMAL the AI is. The AI is so brain stupid, it has terrible tactics that don't align with the races of the teams at all, it has terrible priority to the point where it will do a stupidly dangerous thing before even standing up its players, and it's just ultimately very little challenge for a remotely experienced player. It seems like they made ONE human-race AI, and then just used it for every race, which really isn't something that works well. Oddly enough, though, the AI in this game actually uses the "Blitz" extra-turn events that it gets, where the AI in Legendary Edition never does. Go figure O.o For those of you who like achievements, the 360 achievements for this range from interesting, to damn near impossible unless you're insanely lucky. Like, I was actually able to get the "get 12 KO's in a match" achievement just barely, but that was after many hours of crafting a team almost explicitly designed to do as many injuries and KO's as possible. Getting 3 interceptions in a game or 2 with the same player in the same game though, is absolutely ridiculous. I have no idea how you'd ever do that. Verdict: Not Recommended. The AI in this version is just so awful, I can't recommend it even though the team line up is just fine. Though you can get this version for five bucks, it's an awfully uncommon thing to find. Combine that with how much comparatively easier Blood Bowl II is to find, learn to play the game through, and how superior the AI is in that, and I can only recommend this to the most astute of Blood Bowl fans (such as myself :P)
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