Blood Bowl 2 is out this week, and ahead of the launch developer Cyanide has released a teaser video that shows off a sample match-up between orks and snooty high elves.
The former are a bunch of hooligan bruisers who spend as much time head-butting the enemy as they do playing sport, while the latter are preening Cristiano Ronaldo types, all grace, skill and elegance.
There’s a nice glimpse at some very Warhammer moments of black humour. I particularly liked the moment when the linebacker troll’s hunger gets the most of him, and he eats an unfortunate goblin teammate. That’s almost enough to make me forgive the fact that the combat animations seem a little uninventive.
Still, it’s obvious that Blood Bowl 2 is leaps and bounds ahead of its predecessor in terms of presentation. The game’s released on September 22. That’s tomorrow, in case you’d lost track of the days.