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Backbreaker Preview w/ New Trailer (IGN)

09:06 PM - June 10, 2009 by Steve_OS

IGN has posted their preview of Backbreaker.

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	"Controlling your player as he makes his way down the field is easy. Holding the right trigger sends him into aggressive mode where more powerful moves open up. While holding the trigger you'll not only run faster, but you'll also be able to lower your head into a battering ram and stiff arm guys out of the way. To land a stiff arm properly you'll need to make sure that the ball is being carried in the proper hand. Unlike in Madden where this is handled automatically by the AI, in Backbreaker you'll need to press the A button (X on PS3) to switch hands. In order to perform more delicate moves on the field you'll need to release the right trigger. That's where you'll find standard jukes, hurdles and spin moves. It's interesting, as you streak down the field, to watch the true physical interactions take place in front of you. For a stiff arm to land, you'll need connect your hand to the defender's upper-body. If it glances off of him, you're going down."

Game: BackbreakerReader Score: 6/10 - Vote Now
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# 21 duke776 @ 06/10/09 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by p_rushing


	Because I don't have time to play online for the most part. I don't care if its the greatest game in the world, without a franchise, it has no replay value and at most will be a rental. I didn't even rent 2K All Pro and only played the demo a month or 2 after it came out because it didn't have a franchise. I haven't bought madden since it was on the xbox and I think it was a year or 2 before the last version.

Agreed, I'm a huge franchise player and it's the main reason I play sports games. If it doesn't have franchise I'd probably just rent it, or if I found it cheap I'd buy it and play it every once and a while. I don't play online either, so that has no effect on me buying the game.

# 22 JBucc @ 06/11/09 12:25 AM

Seems like it's still pretty far from being finished.

# 23 wrigleyville33 @ 06/11/09 01:32 AM

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Originally Posted by DSpezzano


	The statement leads me to believe that it doesn't even have a season mode. It's just play a game mode.

Well honestly, some people could care less about franchise or season mode. I never played franchise in madden in forever, probably since original xbox. It just seems boring to me. There is nothing like playing another human player. Computers always have bugs attached. They always do stupid stuff, and you can always beat them, no matter how hard they are. I'm excited they have online.

# 24 Cusefan @ 06/11/09 01:48 AM

The Backbreaker Devs said that this game is not made for the Hardcore Players (OSers), It is made for casual gamers. That being said it has the potential to be fun, but this game will not replace Madden or NCAA for me or anyone on this forum.

# 25 jyoung @ 06/11/09 01:54 AM

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Originally Posted by JHova1982


	+1000 i never understood the thrive to play franchise. people go nuts over beaten the CPU for 30 season

+10000000

This game looks awesome. I am officially pumped.

And they said it will have split-screen co-op, so I wonder if there will be online co-op too?

All Pro Football 2K8 didn't have a franchise mode either, but that didn't stop me from playing the game for a full year-and-a-half against friends both locally and online.

I will take a game with great core mechanics and great head-to-head play over a game with a million different ways to micromanage a franchise and beat up on a helpless, predictable AI opponent any day of the week.

# 26 boritter @ 06/11/09 02:04 AM

I don't like the graphics and the glowing red football is weird.

But the animations are amazing. For years I have been saying that Madden/NCAA will not be great until they have a real time physics engine. This engine would eliminate the terrible suction effect and make it so 300 lb. DTs can't pirouette on a dime at full speed.

EA: buy this engine and implement it for the Xbox720/PS4 versions of Madden/NCAA.

# 27 jyoung @ 06/11/09 02:06 AM

Yep, the intricacies of the running game plus the new passing system that actually makes you go through reads instead of being able to survey the entire field at once look like they will make this a pretty hardcore football game.

# 28 rckabillyRaider @ 06/11/09 03:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Pantherbeast


	No because it BB was to allowed that then the NFL and EA can sue the company for stilling copyrights. BB can not do that and is not allow to even have anythat kind of stuff on their svr. If that happens then that company will be out of business.

and you know this for sure how???????? are u a lawyer?

# 29 LingeringRegime @ 06/11/09 04:18 AM

Can't f'n wait for this game!

# 30 Triathlete_201 @ 06/11/09 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Pantherbeast


	No because it BB was to allowed that then the NFL and EA can sue the company for stilling copyrights. BB can not do that and is not allow to even have anythat kind of stuff on their svr. If that happens then that company will be out of business.

If it's a logo editor like in Forza, I don't see how EA could do anything. It's not the developers making the logos, it's the users making them out of different shapes just like in Forza. Microsoft doesn't have any the rights to any NFL logos, but in Forza, people have created NFL logos on their cars and I didn't see any lawsuits.

Check out the Lions car someone made with the editor..pretty sweet:

http://media.photobucket.com/image/f.../lionsleft.jpg

# 31 Triathlete_201 @ 06/11/09 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Afrikan


	sweet looking car...but how long does it take it to go from zero to sixteen.

# 32 TheWatcher @ 06/11/09 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by p_rushing


	Its been said that the red ball only happens during replays and since that is the same video/pictures that they showed before when talking about replays, I would assume that is the reason the ball is red.

That really doesn't make it any better.

# 33 TheWatcher @ 06/11/09 09:27 AM

I'll check this game out, but I'm not all that excited about it like I was last year. Glowing stuff doesn't exactly appeal to me, and I'm still seeing too much circus action going on, so regardless of what anyone says, I see an arcade football game.

# 34 Hassan Darkside @ 06/11/09 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Afrikan


	sweet looking car...but how long does it take it to go from zero to sixteen.

/thread

# 35 spankdatazz22 @ 06/11/09 11:37 AM

I thought the trailer looked pretty good. I'm not a fan of the Blitz-like proportioned player models and would like to see more dynamic running styles - doesn't seem to be a discernible difference in speed/players don't see to open up their strides enough. Too much similarity across the board, really. And it would seem like it'll be hard for them to manufacture some sense of personality w/the players.

But the contact feels more like football than most of what I've seen from Madden 10 thus far, and this is only their first year effort. Movement is very smooth, and the technology behind it all (players recognizing the need to balance themselves intelligently, the contact) is impressive. Would be nice if the hardcore community doesn't work to shoot the game down before it even has a chance to start - especially given how open people are to being patient/understanding/helping Tiburon develop Madden, and that this is Backbreaker's first year (versus Tiburon's 5th next gen iteration) and that they have the huge disadvantageof not having the NFL license. We're not getting much of anything in the way of innovation from Tiburon; it's going to take companies like this taking a chance at developing a football game in order to get something to push football gaming forward.

# 36 aholbert32 @ 06/11/09 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Pantherbeast


	No because it BB was to allowed that then the NFL and EA can sue the company for stilling copyrights. BB can not do that and is not allow to even have anythat kind of stuff on their svr. If that happens then that company will be out of business.

You couldnt be more wrong about this.

# 37 mvb34 @ 06/11/09 12:57 PM

No franchise mode equal no buy, and no rental for me. As long as it took for this game to get to this point a franchise mode should have been added.. Too bad because I like what I see.

# 38 TheWatcher @ 06/11/09 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Derrville


	You can turn it off watch. To the Lion car maker, how long did it take to make the logo?

We'll see

# 39 Triathlete_201 @ 06/11/09 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Derrville


	To the Lion car maker, how long did it take to make the logo?

I didn't make it. I just googled it to show that one guy that you can use NFL logos in a game that are user created.

# 40 LingeringRegime @ 06/11/09 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by spankdatazz22


	I thought the trailer looked pretty good. I'm not a fan of the Blitz-like proportioned player models and would like to see more dynamic running styles - doesn't seem to be a discernible difference in speed/players don't see to open up their strides enough. Too much similarity across the board, really. And it would seem like it'll be hard for them to manufacture some sense of personality w/the players. But the contact feels more like football than most of what I've seen from Madden 10 thus far, and this is only their first year effort. Movement is very smooth, and the technology behind it all (players recognizing the need to balance themselves intelligently, the contact) is impressive. Would be nice if the hardcore community doesn't work to shoot the game down before it even has a chance to start - especially given how open people are to being patient/understanding/helping Tiburon develop Madden, and that this is Backbreaker's first year (versus Tiburon's 5th next gen iteration) and that they have the huge disadvantageof not having the NFL license. We're not getting much of anything in the way of innovation from Tiburon; it's going to take companies like this taking a chance at developing a football game in order to get something to push football gaming forward.

Well said Spank. I find all this hatred toward this game surprising myself. Here is a game that actually is striving toward providing a next-gen type of experience, and all people are doing are complaining about it not have a license. As if they (BB Devs) can really help the fact that EA has exclusive rights to the NFL.

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