Great board game, but doesn't work very well as a computer game.
Sadly my hopes were dashed. Blood Bowl on the PC is a direct transfer from the board game to the computer. Although it's a great game to play with other people, I find myself being nothing but frustrated playing the single player campaigns.
It's biggest component, and biggest failure, is that everything in the game is based on chance. That's fine if you don't mind not having any control. However, when you want to know why your star player was just killed with no chance of recovery (meaning you need to buy a fresh faced level 1 recruit to replace him) and the answer is: bad luck, that's not something I can cope with in a game.
Despite the menu option's claim of being able to modify the rules in "Blitz mode", you can't. If you could, the game would be infinitely more bearable against the AI.
A lot of reviews mention the dice rolls are heavily weighted in favour of the AI. Now, in my experience I've had games where I can't do wrong. All my players seem to dodge gracefully, tackle with precision and throw and catch flawlessly. On the other hand I've had games where all my players stumble around like drunk elderly women and can't seem to do anything of use.
The thing is you tend to notice bad rolls more when everything is going wrong, and when you're getting good rolls you're simply enjoying the game.
Inducements....Blood Bowl's mechanic of giving the underling a chance in the form of hundreds of thousands of free gold that magically appears from no where. Against a human opponent they're fine, a reasonable way to balance things for a fair game. Against the AI in the campaigns it just feels like a pointless waste improving your team as your opponent will get an awesome team with all the free money they get.
Again, that wouldn't be an option if there was an option to disable it, but there isn't.
One of the other irritating features of the game is the commentary. It is spoken by two people pretending to be an orc and a goblin. I think it's meant to be funny, but as there are only a handful of phrases (literally) they utter it gets old very very fast. Imagine someone telling the same joke over, and over, and over when it only warranted a half-hearted smirk when you first heard it. That's what the commentary is like.
To summarise, if you're buying this game to play against your friends in order to relive the days of Blood Bowl, you're going to enjoy this. On the other hand, if you're looking for a great single player campaign, with dreams of taking your powerhouse of a team to the top then you're in for nothing but frustration and disappointment at every turn.
6/10