Posted on: August 30, 2021
Frondator
Verified ownerGames: 357 Reviews: 6
RNG Football--Such a Shame
It's all RNG. It's probably a great game to play with friends as the RNG seems to favor the AI heavily, even on easy. Since I only play with the AI, and looked forward to playing all the various single player modes, I was disappointed with what I experienced. I wanted to love this game but cannot. You can't increase or remove the turn timer, even on Blitz mode (where you get to alter the rules), so turn-based blitz feels a lot like classic... You really can't modify much of anything on blitz actually. I would love more than 40 seconds to move my team before a Turnover is forced on me, or how about one player being knocked down during a play and the whole team gets a Turnover. It's a very strange version of football. The commentating gets old really quickly, the white log text on the often white background is braindead game design, though you won't have much time to read much of anything or learn what is going on because you have just 40 seconds before you turnover the ball again. There are some great ideas in this game--bribing players, refs, using wizards--but the execution is poor, the effects of these actions often showing up as little more than a text box, also with a timer forcing you to pick up the pace of your reading. Honestly, just play the tabletop game with friends, where there are no algorithms behind the "dice rolls." I love turn based games and have been made furious by X-Com enough times, but there is a sense you can get better at that game because skilled tactical movement of your squad seems to matter far more, the randomness far less than Blood Bowl. If you are expecting a cool fantasy football game from the Warhammer universe, this isn't it. Such a shame.
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