BloodBowl 3 Beta Preview

by Jim Smale · February 3, 2022

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.

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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.

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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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