Video: Blood Bowl Teasers

Are any of you games out there old enough to remember Mutant League Football?  Back in 1993, EA tweaked their Madden game engine and replaced the eleven-man NFL teams with seven-man squads made of robots, orcs, monsters, skeletons and trolls.  The game was a decent success, spawning a hockey spin-off and even a short-lived cartoon.  Fans of the game have clamored for a remake, re-imagining or even a re-release, but other than the game’s inclusion on the 2006 PSP collection, EA Replay, no love has been shown to the quirky, humorous sports title.

It may not be Mutant League Football per se, but it’s pretty damn close.  Later this year, publisher, Focus Home Interactive, and developer, Cyanide, will be bringing us Blood Bowl later this year.  The game is based on a variation of the classic tabletop game, Warhammer, and not on Mutant League Football, but honestly, if you just ignore the main title screen, it’ll be just like playing MLF on a current-gen system.

Anyway, the last three days have seen the release of three new trailers for the game, and all three look pretty nice.  More than pretty nice, even.  I’d go so far as to call them impressive.

Hit the jump for more videos, and you tell me how a developer no one’s never heard of made such a nice looking sports title.

Source: Gamervision

4 comments

  1. Johnn Four says:

    Sweet! I own the board game but can’t get a game in with friends ever. The toughest decision I might make this year is PC vs. console.

    Any news on a release date for PC or 360?

    January 29th, 2009 at 8:48 pm

  2. TomI says:

    I’m withholding judgment until I see some actual gameplay. These look like rendered cut scenes.

    January 29th, 2009 at 8:59 pm

  3. Thasmodious says:

    Ok, I have to thank you for linking these trailers, I didn’t know they were up. But I have to take exception with the presentation here, “it’s not mutant league football?” Are you serious? This is a gaming blog right? Blood Bowl is a classic that came out in the 80s as a minis game and still has a strong and loyal following. There are still Blood Bowl tournaments worldwide, several pbm and online play leagues (like FUMBBL, which uses a nice java app for live online play), the rule set is on its 5th edition of the Living Rule Book, the 1st of which was really like the 5th edition of the rules.

    January 30th, 2009 at 12:40 am

  4. Coop says:

    I’m not sure I understand your issue, but I’m happy you enjoyed the links!

    January 30th, 2009 at 12:49 am

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