Backbreaker Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

[Nintari]

Too many posts to scan over right now but I noticed a bug today too. I sacked the QB, he hit the ground, got up...and then RAN for another 10 yards before getting tackled again. He ended up getting a first down lol.

[Matt Young]

Eh, I didn't know he was a mod- not that they should be immune to the rules. But the point stands that he was arguing about something that wasn't even regarding what we were discussing.

I still need to try tackle alley. I only did the tutorial, then jumped straight into games.

[hatisback]

Quote: Originally Posted by ndhusker90

23 is a mod...would he be giving himself an infraction then? Ok seriously...I can't stop playing tackle alley even though I can't even get past wave 3!! I need to get past wave 3 This demo kicks serious butt.

Its okay. Matt Young has been reviewing the game over at the Gamefaqs boards and had the same things to say.

[Matt Young]

I posted the same "review", yes, but I said nothing of how the demo process works over there. If I got an infraction for going off-topic, you should for that post, especially after I went back on topic.

[Dudd]

This is a rough game. The tackles are nice, the movement is pretty good, but it's rough around the edges. I played two games on medium difficulty, and neither myself nor the computer scored a touchdown on offense. The first game ended in a scoreless tie, and the second game I won 14-0 on a blocked punt returned for a touchdown and a 55 yard FG that ended up landing 6 yards short that I also returned for a touchdown. The controls seem sluggish at first glance, I went through and did all the training camp modes before jumping into a real game, but it still wasn't a seamless transition. The passing controls seemed rough, you have to flick the stick hard to switch between receivers. At first I wasn't flicking hard enough so nothing seemed to happen, and even after I got the hang of it, it wasn't the easiest thing in the world to switch from your primary receiver to your checkdown in order to avoid a sack. This was especially so if there was a receiver in between and you had to switch twice, forget about it.

The running game also seemed off. The camera really did no favors, a couple of plays I'd get the ball and then the camera would swing around and suddenly I'd be running backwards. There also were some very curious plays designed, it seemed like you'd either get the ball way too quickly or way too slowly. One play which was supposed to be a counter of some sort had the running back take two or three steps one way and then abruptly change direction, so it ended up being a V route in the backfield before I even got the ball. Needless to say that play stood no chance with that kind of timing. The first running play I tried I never actually got the ball, the defense got in so quickly that the quarterback was sacked before the hand off was even made.

To top it off, in the middle of the first quarter of the second game, the sound somehow got stuck looping the stadium announcer, so for the entire rest of the game there was a stuttering ten-ten-ten-ten-ten in the background. Highly annoying. Overall, the tackling was superb, the locomotion felt miles better than any football game I've ever played, but it just seemed like an empty, awkward shell around it. I think they would have been better served to not try and reinvent the football genre on their very first attempt, but rather incrementally improve the existing conventions with better physics and locomotion.

[KG]

Quote: Originally Posted by ZeeAyKay

Everyone needs to watch the first play in this video. Words cannot describe how amazing it is.

My favorite part was on the sack 46 secs into the video #96 get's blocked onto the top of the pile/back of the guy making the sack. There is just something about the way he hits the ground that makes you almost feel the impact.

[michaeljordanjr]

How is the tackle physics? Can you differentiate between a powerful hit at full speed versus a regular hit?

Or does every tackle have the same intensity?

[allBthere]

Quote: Originally Posted by Matt Young

Ah, the classic defense for someone whose point has been rendered moot. How about you follow your own advice, before you get an infraction for trolling me? All right, man. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. It seems that neither of us wants to argue, which is good. Does anyone else have an issue with the demo being too easy, even on the hard difficulty setting? In the interest of full disclosure, I did use the highest rated team against the lowest rated, so that may have been a part of it.

since it's a demo and you're trying the game, do what i did...be the cougars against the indy team and see what heppens

you could pull out a miracle because of the randomness, but do that on hard and pro and you should get smoked. I did 10-0 had 3 yards passing and 5 yards rushing compared to their 30 yards rushing and 79 yards passing.

I like playing on hard both using the 'good' teams and sometimes I win and sometimes I lose. I just had that gomez rb run for 48 yards on me! he had a 20 yard td run and broke 3 tackles while doing it.

I don't mind that i can already win some games on hard since I'm a seasoned gamer like many of us here, but I can't win all the time, especially if I'm not using indy.

I finally had a nice over the shoulder lob pass that was just over 30 yards from the line of scrimmage to the catch position, and ran an extra 8 or so yards for the TD. It was a beauty. I'm also getting better at Defence and got my first sack with a LB and also tackled their rb twice. So in one game as LOLB I got a sack and two rb tackles.

a fun thing to do on kickoff returns or punt returns when you have nowhere to go is to hurdle lol ... I'm using buttons so it's the right shoulder for me, but you see some nasty stuff when you do that.