Backbreaker PlayStation 3
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  • Summary: It's tackle football like never before. Backbreaker is taking sports video games to a place where the action is never the same and every hit looks and feels as realistic as a Sunday afternoon. Utilizing NaturalMotion's euphoria motion synthesis engine, the same technology featured in "Grand Theft Auto IV" and "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed," you'll never see the same tackle again. For the first time in a sports game, this mix of technology, biology and tenacious attitude is turning the gridiron of past, full of canned animations and repetitious gameplay, into a dangerous form of self expression. Every unique tackle in the world of Backbreaker is an artistic exercise in hard hits and athletic skill. It's time to show your friends just how painful art can be. Through a combination of biology and robotics research, euphoria uses the CPU power of next-generation consoles to simulate the nervous system, muscles, and biomechanics of the football players in real-time. This is the first time this technology is being employed for a sports game. While conventional football games can only load a finite number of animations from a disc, Backbreaker's real-time technology will never allow the gameplay to become stale. Forget about prim and proper, Backbreaker presents a fast-paced, gritty gameplay experience that's more Burnout than Madden. [NaturalMotion]… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 25
  3. Negative: 3 out of 25
  1. Strategy Informer
    85
    To be honest there is very little that Backbreaker does wrong. Its only real drawback is that it is not an official NFL licensed game and misses out on the major draw of taking a team to the Super Bowl.
  2. Playstation Official Magazine Australia
    70
    The main reason you will enjoy it is because the twin analogue stick controls are as simple as they are rewarding and each tackle is a cacophony of limbs that is extremely visceral. [July 2010 p73]
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  3. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    70
    Brilliantly rookie-friendly. [July 2010, p.114]
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  4. Gaming Age
    42
    Overall, Backbreaker has a couple good things going for it with the physics of the Euphoria engine, the team customization, and the unique POV when on the field, but the actual gameplay really sets this one back.

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  1. Patriotsman12
    10
    This game has over 60 teams. It has a season mode and also Road to Backbreaker. It also has tackle alley the hit iphone game. The only thing that could make this game better is an nfl license. This is a must buy.… Expand
  2. Germaino
    9
    This game after the patch is the best football game out. Everything from the tackling and blocking is spot on. There are many people online that have created the NFL roster and logos so the NFL license is not needed. If your tired of madden or NCAA is game is at least worth a rent. The developers of this game are also very interactive with the community and you can tell that they arent just about the money. This technology there using is the future for sports video games… Expand

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