Backbreaker Hands-On Preview (Gameinformer)

[Afrikan]

Quote: Originally Posted by teewee

what about hair and such will there be dreads? why would they leave out things that's surely going to hurt the game. the game devs truly do not understand totally custom. its always something you cant do that is critical to the game. what good is it to have forza system then have all the players look the same. how are you going to create darren sproels and have him look like branden jacobs. this is unacceptable and a game killer. can you see steven jackson or troy polamalu without their hair and imagine its them. why have to.

I think George Steinbrenner is the owner of the league, hence no hobo beards or long hair is allowed for the players.

but seriously, it took other football games a while to do hair, this is their first game....I think they are concentrating on other things first.....heck, I'm surprised they have a franchise type mode....or 2 of them.....their development team is quite small.

[canes21]

Quite small is an understatement, they don't even have 10 people working on the game. I think it was 8 last I heard?

[lofeazy]

Just like the face mask there going to have to program the AI not to grab the hair when tackling.Thats why no hair.

[TreyIM2]

After having optimism for this game then pessimism, due to Nat. Mot. not providing much of any info on the game for quite a long time, then back to optimism when new info began to appear, I am back to pessimism cuz I have a STRONG feeling this game is going to suck, based on all the latest previews, and the tackles are the ONLY thing that is going to keep many people's attention, if just only for a minor bit of time.

Ok, the end.

[AUChase]

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[Gort77]

Quote: Originally Posted by TreyIM2

After having optimism for this game then pessimism, due to Nat. Mot. not providing much of any info on the game for quite a long time, then back to optimism when new info began to appear, I am back to pessimism cuz I have a STRONG feeling this game is going to suck, based on all the latest previews, and the tackles are the ONLY thing that is going to keep many people's attention, if just only for a minor bit of time. Ok, the end.

You mean the 2 negative previews out of the 6 or 8 previews?

[granddogg]

yeah all the bad previews lmao at some of yall jumping off the boat everytime somebody say something bad wow..

[elgreazy1]

The writer seemed like he was doing everything to not only compare BB to Madden but to show how in every way it doesn't compare to Madden so from the very beginning I was skeptical as to the validity of the review. The writer complained about certain aspects of the game all while fully stating he wasn't playing the proper game modes but merely speculating. I'll be honest, I was not happy with the write up on the article because it seemed VERY biased. The writer expects players to move with zero momentum and split-second responsiveness when in reality the sport - and the reason the entire Natural Motion exists - doesn't lend itself to that.

I will say that I am quite disappointed about some of the restrictions on the player and team customization in terms of names. It's not too big of a deal because I've learned to edit names with APF but I'd like if the dev team would not have been so over restrictive. Eh well. And I'm VERY disappointed with the fact there is no file sharing. Eh well, it seems like a game that will require a lot of Menu time and honestly, that's not that big of a deal seeing as how much I do so to begin with in other games with Roster & Team edit, Practice modes (APF & M10).