Review: Blood Bowl 2 – Legendary Edition (PlayStation 4)

Blood Bowl 2 smashes Warhammer and American football together, in an explosive cocktail of turn-based strategy, humour and brutality, adapted from Games Workshop’s famous boardgame.

Pros:

• Really nice graphics, Captures and visualise the Warhammer universe perfectly.
• 7.26GB Download size.
• Six save slots.
• Eight new teams- Amazon, Goblins, Halflings, Ogres, Denzins, Vampires, Elven union and Kislev circus.
• Challenge mode- Take on set scenarios.
• Endless league.
• MP- Online expands with more options like the ability to add AI teams.
• Three difficulties- Easy, Medium and hard.
• Three camera options- Blood Bowl 1, Blood Bowl 2 and free.
• Four modes- Campaign, League, Friendly and challenges.
• Opening tutorial with ongoing pop ups and a help section.
• Platinum trophy.
• Turn based strategy game within a football setting.
• Excellent voice work.
• Campaign- Build your own team, Earn money from games and pick who to recruit as well as picking the race of your cheerleaders and maintaining your stadium.
• Awesome atmosphere.
• Autosaves regularly.
• Random events can happen from pitch invasions to the ref attacking players.
• Brutal tackles complete with slow down sequences.
• When you tackle a player it comes down to ststa, Buffs and rolling a dice. This may sound complicated but it is all streamlined and represented clearly with pop ups and icons.
• Risk it! Every player has a set movement length but you can risk it and go a bit further.
• Clear UI with things like percentage of success icons and a grid comes up to help plan.
• Humour throughout the game.
• Fun to play.
• Easy to get into.
• Before each tackle you can see a small vid pop up showing what it looks like.
• Status- You can stun and knockout players.
• 24 teams in total to choose from with each having displayed pros and cons and a 1-5 star rating for difficulty.
• Mixed bag team- New addition where you can play with a set of players from different races.
• Cabal TV- Watch games and replays from the community.
• You can create your own team complete with name, Logo, Uniform, Colours etc.
• Controls are very simple.
• Satisfying gameplay.

Cons:

• Loading times are quite long.
• Commentary cuts out at times.
• Hard crashes happen.
• Autosaving in menu slows all the menus down.
• No fast forward option when its your opponents turn.
• No extra trophies.
• IAP for money to buy creation options.
• Commentary repeats itself a lot in game.
• Rules are not always clearly pointed out.