It’s over-the-top, but it’s accurate to the source material. You have amazons going toe-to-toe with werewolves, vampires stopping to feed on their enemies (and teammates), goblins on pogo sticks, and angry small people riding on steamrollers. This means what little lore there is in Blood Bowl, is infused into the core of this blood-fuelled sport. The video game adaptations are almost perfect recreations of the classic game. That game is Blood Bowl.Ī mixture of American Football and murder, the world of Blood Bowl is violent, bloody, death-filled, and comically brilliant.
Instead of waging eternal war, they made a game that everyone could play. Based on the now-defunct Warhammer Fantasy Battles lore, Blood Bowl takes place in an alternate timeline where the endless war that makes up all of Games Workshop's games…well, ended. Yet another game lacking the Warhammer title, but well and truly a part of the universe, Blood Bowl is a spinoff game that has remained popular since its tabletop inception way back in 1986. The only misstep for the lore is that the weaponry doesn’t have the kick mass-reactive rounds the size of a man's chest it should have. Deathwing nails the scale, the iconography, and the breathtaking awe that defines the Imperium of Man. No, they are titanic planet-sized cathedrals that travel through the bowels of hell as a means of taking a shortcut. Space ships aren’t just a means to fly around, well, space. It’s hard to imagine the scale of Warhammer 40K, but Deathwing does a pretty good job. Where the lore comes into play, is in the environments. Speed is not your friend, but big stonking guns and weapons wreathed in wicked lightning most certainly are. You are in control of a Deathwing Terminator - a 9ft tall superhuman in Tactical Dreadnought Armor - armor so big, and so bulky, they are quite literally walking tanks. Loosely based on horde shooters like Left 4 Dead, or the more recent Back 4 Blood, Deathwing does an alright job bringing the formula to the 41st Millenium. We’d go as far as saying it isn’t really that great of a game to play either. Space Hulk: Deathwing is not a hugely original game.