This is to make the game look as though it is actually being broadcast by the fictional broadcaster, Cabalvision. Commentary will once again be in place with Jim and Bob back where they belong to bring dry humour and puns to the pitch. This engine will have hardware specifications that are “higher than the original Blood Bowl”, but the developer has said that it is taking steps to make the game playable on low-end PCs too.īlood Bowl 2 will retain its distinct visual style, with the new engine adding to the quality of the graphics, and it will also retain the camera angles that were inspired by actual American football camera placement. The game will be running on a brand new, internally developed engine that currently doesn’t have a name.
We’re still discussing it at this point, I hope we manage to do this one-purchase-per-race stuff.” Each of us we have two, three, four favourite races, some of which will already be in the Blood Bowl 2 original content. We still don’t know how they’re going to get that into the game, whether it’s DLC, expansions or an in-game store… we’ll speak more about this when the decision has been made.”Įxpanding on the possibility of races as post-launch content, project manager Sylvain Sechi, has said, “I personally don’t like to milk players, I’m not keen on the extension package retail model, so we are discussing a lot about trying to sell players races individually, which will eventually I think cost much less for players because you don’t play with all races. He later added, “We have much more content to add to the game and we are really thinking about those 15 other teams.
Of course, more races will join the initial eight after release.” The Bretonnian roster is entirely exclusive to Blood Bowl II. Speaking about playable races and the intent of expanding the roster post launch, Gauthier Brunet has said, “Blood Bowl 2 will feature eight different races at release: Human, Orc, Skaven, Dwarf, High Elf, Dark Elf, Chaos and Bretonnian. This has been done before with Blood Bowl, with the all content eventually being collected into the Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition. This will be expanded on post release, presumably by way of an expansion or DLC. We have made this choice to focus on the turn-based gameplay as much as possible and bring a polished and updated version of it.”ĭespite having only detailed 2 of the playable races coming to Blood Bowl 2 (see the Teams portion of this Wiki for more) the game will feature eight races that the player can control. Speaking about this, Blood Bowl 2’s Lead Game Designer Gauthier Brunet has said, “Blood Bowl II will not feature a real-time mode. Unlike the original Blood Bowl, a game that mixed real time gameplay with a turn based mechanic, Blood Bowl 2 will put an emphasis on the turn-based and strategic elements of the game. Like Blood Bowl before it, Blood Bowl 2 is based on a Games Workshop IP that started out as a tabletop fantasy football game.