Backbreaker Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

[raiders81tim]

Quote: Originally Posted by catcatch22

The camera issue is no different than in racing games where you have the option to race with the in car cam or not to. F355 Ferrari Challenge was the first game at the arcade to force you into the cockpit view and to be honest I liked that idea and have always picked the in the car view in every racing game I play. In a lot of the more serious racers when you setup an online lobby almost every time they give you the option to force the in car cam on everyone. The reason they give this option is for the simple fact that being in the car is much more difficult and provides the closest from of realism you can get. If anything they should have made it where you have a choice to pick the view and force the view for online games. However maybe they have a grander vision to this with the camera. I am telling you the camera is perfect for online team play. It is perfect. The controls are a bit clunky and the AI is a bit suspect, but if there is an option for 6 v 6 team play that would make this an easy game for me to endorse. As of right now I am still purchasing it but not as excited.

It would be perfect if there was a way to simulate head movement. Right now it's too stiff.

[catcatch22]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

Though someone debunked the User v. User idea, Tackle Alley supposedly allows multiplayer play in the demo. I'd like to hear someone's impressions on that if possible.

I think by multiplayer they meant on the same console and no have not played seen the user v user on the same console.

[bkrich83]

Quote: Originally Posted by gamer23

well why not just ask why i made the comment? im saying that instead of like really taking this game serious as they do for madden,they should take it as the "euphoria" guys just wanting to get their product out there.i see people battering the game because it has no field goal nets,refs,sideline people etc... when its not really about that to the guys that made it. its the fact that they revolutionized tackles and other animations in the game,dont look for anything more.

That's fine and dandy. But missing things and deficiencies in the game are still missing things and deficiencies in the game, no matter why the devs made the game. They are still design decisions that are worthy of criticism.

[mrprice33]

I don't buy that. I could have sworn they've said many times that they aren't looking to sell their tech (btw, isn't euphoria available to everyone?), and EA would probably not look to implement it this late in the console cycle. If BB's development proved anything, it's that it takes a long time to implement this tech properly, so EA would maybe have 1 or 2 releases of football games before it was time to move on to the next systems.

[Pared]

ONCE AGAIN,

Quit the discussions on Madden/EA.

If you want to discuss what it is missing or not, fine. But STOP DERAILING THE IMPRESSIONS THREAD.

[catcatch22]

Quote: Originally Posted by raiders81tim

It would be perfect if there was a way to simulate head movement. Right now it's too stiff.

I agree in serious racing games that have a realistic cockpit view, they at least allow you to look left and right to look at your mirrors. They missed the boat on that one. They should have looked at the camera as a "in car cockpit" camera and made the bumpers or the right stick be the controls to move your head to scan the field. As of right now you are limited to a small static field of vision which is visceral but way to tight.

[gamer23]

this is what the game says to me.

i made a football game with an engine that may revolutionize the way the animations look.dont expect a nfl experience,just look at these animations please.

[ZeeAyKay]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

Though someone debunked the User v. User idea, Tackle Alley supposedly allows multiplayer play in the demo. I'd like to hear someone's impressions on that if possible.

I wish I would have known this earlier when I had friends over! I just checked it out. They put you on opposite sides of the field. There are 5 waves, but you don't get a number of lives, you go through the wave until someone gets into the endzone. The waves are different from the single player waves. I think that only one person gets points for getting in the endzone, so it's also a bit of a race, as well as trying to rack up points and getting combos. Seems like it would be a lot of fun.