And how I will likely end up spending an ungodly amount of time playing that game.īut in any case, you’re not here to listen to me daydreaming about Warhammer 3. Blood Bowl 3 Makes a Poor First Impression You’re here to learn about the current state of Blood Bowl 3. The first time I logged into the Closed Beta I was hit by what seemed to be an endless flood of cutscenes and tutorials. The tutorials were needlessly split into sections and absolutely mind-numbing for anyone familiar with previous games in the series. It’s genuinely infuriating when games feel the need to explain the minutiae of even the simplest mechanics. Especially when the explanations come accompanied by huge arrows, highlighting, and text that covers a good portion of the screen. The UI is already busy enough as it is in this game even without all that stuff. Tutorials are certainly useful for new players, but there should be an option to skip them. In the case of Blood Bowl 3, completing all the tutorials will apparently be mandatory for unlocking access to campaign competitions. I haven’t seen any of those in the Beta, though. So I imagine they will be added at some point further down the road.Īs far as other game modes are concerned, you’ve got Hotseat, Online PvP, and Versus AI. I had trouble finding opponents online and didn’t have anyone to play Hotseat with, so I settled on spending most of my time with the Beta playing against the AI. Much like I did back in the day with Blood Bowl 2. The AI in Blood Bowl 3 used to be pretty terrible based on what people who tested the previous Beta were saying. But in my experience, it wasn’t too bad this time around. I did notice that the AI focused significantly more on punching my players than actually trying to score a touchdown. Whenever the AI had the ball, it didn’t seem to know what to do with it and was content with beating my players to a bloody pulp instead. It’s hard to complain about that, though, considering I was doing pretty much the same thing.Īt the end of the day, this is Blood Bowl. Photo Credit: Screenshot by Jason Moth / Game by Nacon Watching the races of the Old World beating the snot out of each other is way more entertaining than trying to play traditional football. It’s also a lot easier to resort to fists when a good portion of your players are so incompetent that they can’t even run from A to B without slipping and falling. Let alone get them to catch the ball or throw a good pass. I’m happy to say that the Blood Bowl 3 Closed Beta did a good job at capturing the ridiculousness of it all. Unfortunately, it was difficult to enjoy much of it because of all the technical issues still plaguing the game.
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