Backbreaker Hands-On (Gamespot)

[hdaniel1]

Gamespot has posted their hands-on preview of Backbreaker.

Quote:

"Consider Tackle Alley, a small feature which was the only playable part of Backbreaker today. Initially meant to be a simple tech demo, the feature grew in popularity, and not it will be included in the final game as an additional minigame. The idea is that you play as a lone runner, whose goal is to make it from one end of the field to the other, while avoiding a host of psychotic defenders looking to cripple you at every turn."

[Bigdmo9999]

Just like to point out the mention of the 2008 release

[briax87]

As much as i would love to see this game being released by the end of the year, i wouldn't be surprised at all if it was pushed back to 09 considering the only gameplay aspect they've shown us is Tackle Alley

[GymRat]

They should start showing some gameplay now.

[acarrero]

I remain skeptical about the actual game. Without any information about the kind of game we can expect, it sounds like they are just displaying their cool physics engine, maybe in the hopes that EA will buy it.

[GymRat]

Head Coach on the BB forum said that they will "definitely not be selling BB to ea."

[stiffarmleft]

Quote: Originally Posted by GymRat

Head Coach on the BB forum said that they will "definitely not be selling BB to ea."

Money talks.

[bkfount]

Quote: Originally Posted by GymRat

Head Coach on the BB forum said that they will "definitely not be selling BB to ea."

that's fine. However, sell it to us then. There's little to no in game footage, and tons of Euphoria hype, yet people are hailing it as the savior of the EA dominated football genre. Just having Euphoria physics doesn't make a game great, look at Star Wars Force Unleashed. That game has both Star Wars/LucasArts and Euphoria physics going for it, and impressions are that it could be average at best. GTA 4 would have sold well regardless.

2k even had a built in fan base from years of top notch competition to EA, that made the unlicensed APF2k8 a largely community hyped game. It still price dropped months after release and sold like 300k copies. If Backbreaker really is something special, and has a 2008 release, SHOW IT OFF!! Madden and NCAA are already out, so there's no danger in showing what they have at this point, supposedly months from release.