10 Crazy Sports Video Games That Didn’t Play By The Rules
1. Blood Bowl
First developed by Jervis Johnson as a board game for Games Workshop in 1986, Blood Bowl is a franchise that revolves around the question of: 'What would it look like if World of Warcraft met the Super Bowl?'. Fantasy staples such as Orcs, Dwarfs and different races of Elves are all readily welcome on the pitch and all possessing their own unique traits and styles.
The popularity of Johnson's board game spawned the very first Blood Bowl video game in 1995 with a title for MS-DOS computer systems. The game was turn based and sees players being given action points they can use to try and score as many touchdowns as possible.
Where the rule book is quite literally thrown out the window with Blood Bowl is how the game encourages players to do as much grievous bodily harm to their opponents as possible.
Beating up, maiming and even brutally killing off the opposing team are all actively encouraged in Blood Brawl as a way of making scoring more easy, making for a faithful re-creation of the classic board game and one of the more unique turn based strategic sports video games available to play.