Fifa manages twice as much detail in less than half the time. You shouldn't have to wait for more than a minute to load a field of small, unimpressively rendered creatures and a few waving fans. You've got no chance reading the captions on screen if your television is anything less than a 21in. Sadly, as these things often seem to be, it's a pretty lazy port. The game is, in fact, a version of a PC game released on Steam, the popularity of which convinced THQ to release a console version. So difficult is the game to get to grips with for the newcomer it must have originally been made strictly with Blood Bowl aficionados in mind. The impenetrable amount of rules, clauses, special bonuses etc may work well on a long afternoon gathered around a gaming table – where you have the time and patience to consult huge rule books and sets of cards, special dice, and so on – but somehow this doesn't really seem right for the pick-up-and-play nature of console gaming. For starters, it's incredibly complex, and the tutorial offered is pretty woeful.
What this means is that while Blood Bowl fanatics will be immensely satisfied (and it seems like there are a fair few out there), for everyone else the game is a bit of a head-scratcher.
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