You have probably heard about the game Blood Bowl, and that a PC version of the table top game has been made. Its download only atm for ?39.99, playable online with patches being released. There are 8 playable races atm Human, Dwarf, Orc, Lizardmen, Wood Elves, Chaos, Skaven and Goblins. Dunno if its been confirmed, but i imagine more will be implemented through patches, there are atleast 16 races in the latest table top rules.
The graphics are pretty nice, not very interactive(just knocking someone down with a punch would be the some animation if you killed them) but are very smooth, acrobatics when dodging and scooping up the ball when running through etc.
The gameplay/rules are exactly the same as the table top game when playing a match, but there is alot more pre-match amble with this game. You can give 1 player in your team some extra training, its like a double click mini game where you've got to let the bar fill up full as you can without it hitting the end, the closer to the top, the more % chance the stat will increase for that next match. pick a Stat(Movement, Strength, Agility or Armour) choose how violent and intense you want to train that player, the harder settings will move the bar quicker.
You can also spend some gold out of your treasurery on various "inducements" to give you an edge in the match, anything from Magical Potions to a slipped bribe to the Ref. And if you've taken a paticular beating in previous games, you'll be getting some of these goodies for "free", you'll get the difference in team costs in gold to spend on inducments.
There is a definate element of comedy spliced into the game, with the comments for the AI player if you player vs the computer, and the match commentators being have the odd funny joke, but like with most games, you'd have heard them all after 3 or 4 matches. Also all the different types of players within a race have different"jigs" they dance if they score a touchdown, i recently managed to score with a Troll, he scratchs his head and looks around abit, not really sure at whats hes done
This game was once annoucned to be realsed in the 1st quater of 2008, but all the delays to now seem to have been worth it so far, the game is very well put together, no bugs, no crashes and with the posibilty of new patches it can only get better(hopefully). If you have played BB before and liked it you'll like this for sure.