BloodBowl 3 Beta Preview
For our BloodBowl 3 Beta Preview, we get to go hands-on with the beta build of the latest entry in the BloodBowl franchise. For those who don’t know it, BloodBowl is a Warhammer turn-based football game. Think Mutant League football and turn-based actions and you are halfway there.
BloodBowl 3 Beta Preview Pros:
- Decent graphics.
- 9.01GB Download size.
- Full controller support.
- Graphics settings – resolution, screen mode, draw distance, anti-aliasing, post-processing, shadows, textures, effects, foliage, resolution scale, v-sync, and brightness. Auto-detect is available.
- Four races – Black Orc, Elven Union, Imperial Mobility, and Dwarf.
- Team creation entails picking a race, team name, and if you manually pick from the draft or use the automatic balanced option.
- Team customisation options are jersey/emblem, cheerleaders, coaches, stadium, dice, ball, and team motto.
- Tutorial match option.
- Online matchmaking.
- Maintains the ever-present humor.
- Navigation of menus is a lot easier and more straightforward.
- Still has high-quality cutscenes and opening cinematic.
- Officially licensed game.
- Three ways to play – hot seat, against Ai, and online.
- Fast loading times.
- American football-style gameplay.
- Still feels like this generation’s Mutant League Football.
- The excellent commentary team is back!
- Runs really well on max settings on a GTX 970 with 60fps.
- 12 default teams.
- You can buy game buffs good for one game.
- Taunt the enemy with a cool little window pop-up of them performing it.
- The stadiums have a lot more depth and atmosphere to them.
- Kick-off events can happen from how the weather affects the ball to extra turn bonuses or pitch invasions.
- Clearer easier to read pop-ups of bonuses and attacks/defenses.
- Uses the new ruleset to match the tabletop version.
BloodBowl 3 Beta Preview Cons:
- You have to set up an account.
- The cheerleader and stadiums are all the basic ones so you don’t know what to expect yet.
- Only one set of dice.
- Had a couple of hard lock-ups.
- Match settings are just how strict the rules are.
- No difficultly options.
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BloodBowl 3:
Developer: Cyanide
Publisher: Nacon
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Summary
I found the many new additions to not only be welcome but well thought out and executed. They have done a lot of work and it shows from the visuals to the tightening up of the gameplay. I have always loved the BloodBowl franchise and whilst 3 is shaping up well, its smaller adjustments and additions are not a huge game-changer. BloodBowl 3 still plays the same as the previous two games and whilst that’s good it’s also a bad thing as at the moment I’m not seeing huge amounts of reason to upgrade to the newer game. It is only a beta so it is very early on and I didn’t get to see a lot of the new things but what I did see did make sense.
