Just wait until you see the Blood Bowl adaptation of "Any Given Sunday"

It’s a little hard to reconcile the realm of table games with video games sometimes.  People who play table games are quite often a patient bunch.  After all, once they’ve bought a game they’ve got to assemble it, pain-stakingly paint it and then find someone of a similar inclination to play against.  Video gamers, on the other hand, prefer the immediate thrill of jumping straight into the action, and then quitting the moment our minds start to wander.

Maybe because the play styles are so disparate explains the rather hot and cold experience of Cyanide Studio’s console adaptation of Games Workshop’s classic Blood Bowl.  Despite having all the elements to create a fun, exciting and entertaining title, it lacks harmony between it’s table game roots and it’s video game incarnation.

For those who haven’t had the pleasure of playing a game of Blood Bowl, the basic premise is that of an American Football game played out in a fantasy reality.  Set in the original Warhammer universe, teams come from several different races, including humans, orcs, elves, dwarves, etc.  While the aim of the game is still to field an 11 player team and get the ball into the end-zone, often a simpler way to victory is to just stomp the opposing team into the turf and then walk in a touchdown.

In fact if anything, it’s the preferred way.

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