Early Backbreaker Impressions (Pastapadre)

[Romeclone]

Quote: Originally Posted by swaldo

Just found out the "old lady" wants to sip wine, eat grapes and watch "It's Complicated" with me on DVD tonight. Lord help me!

O/T but I just split up with my wife of 12 years a few months ago. Oh God do I know all about what you just said...

So now I sit in my apartment with Backbreaker/Beer/Cubs game and just had so smile when I read that.

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First of all, if the owner of this site wants to post a topic from Pasta's site, so what.

He owns this site and can do whatever he wants to do. I dont see how any of you feel that you have some kind of authority on this one.

[wadcakes]

I picked it up from gamestop today and have been playing tackle alley and it is a blast

[wheelman990]

Funny, the half ended 7-3...didnt seam all that 1 sided in stats and score to me. There was a INT issue obviously, thats about it. If the INT's were fixed, the game would be close, and you might have lost the second time when you stated you played as a bad team vs a good team and barely won in the end.

Pasta, this wasnt really your first game, you been posting demo videos for a while of you playing. It wasnt like you didnt already know how to play.

For the record I can win almost every game, in every football video game Ive ever played before....nothing new there.

[HappyRock622]

Man I must really suck at this game then. I played against New England (rated 70 something), I was Oklahoma (30ish rating) and they beat me down 33-0. I had the form set to very good playing on arcade mode. I might of had 120yds total offense and they only threw one pick to my 3 (all my fault of course). IMHO it's a solid game. GAME ON people.

[bkrich83]

Quote: Originally Posted by swaldo

Stuck in the house with 4 women right now (birthday party.) I'll be definately buying it this afternoon and will get some impressions going. I'm going with the 360 version, I like the bigger controller and online will be better with Live. Just found out the "old lady" wants to sip wine, eat grapes and watch "It's Complicated" with me on DVD tonight. Lord help me! Also, I thought Pasta's early impressions were fair. If anything he could've talked up the technology more than he did but this is a wonky playing CPU. Seems to me the offensive output is unpredictable, I saw good offense come out of the CPU in the demo at times, but in others it was beyond horrible. In all cases there were too many sacks and INT's though.

Ha... That's usually the way it works.

[cookusu]

Strange game sometimes when you have a nice run or complete a pass it is very satisfying, same thing with a nice tackle. Still getting used to the passing in the last game I played I was sacked 11 times I played Cleveland and I am the Cougars. First game I played was a turnover fest like Pasta said, but the last one was pretty normal and I managed to lose, although I probably shouldn't have if I was smart about my playcalling and a little quicker on the controls, this was on the hard level. I recommend that if you play this game use custom settings and turn on the hi-lite player options, so you can see who as the ball when you are defending, also hold the left stick so you can focus on the play. On defense it is actually pretty fun to play linebacker, I haven't tried to be DB yet, that was how I got burned and lost by trying to take control of the guy and thought I had a pick when I didn't .

Their is a lot of potential here, I have enjoyed what I have played I think in part because it is a new take on a football game and I needed something new. I am concerned most about the CPU Offense more games will tell but it does seem to inconsistent and maybe some of that is the ratings of players, some pretty bad players running around on some teams. I think that my ineffectiveness on offense can be helped by practice.


Visually appealing, actually like no announcers, not sure what is the point of the depth charts are since there are not injuries of fatigue, but hey at least it is in place for next year.

[MINATAURO]

Quote: Originally Posted by DereckM

So was this first attempt supposed to be the best football game ever made? I didnt expect it to be. It has flaws that for sure, but as people always say when we talk about madden "What game doesnt have flaws?". So anyway it does alot of things better than any other football game to date. Im having fun with it and hope they can get a few more chances to make a better football game. For this to be their first attempt I think they have done a hell of a job.

AGREED, couldn't have said it better myself.