PSX Extreme writes: " Even though Electronic Arts owns the NFL license exclusively up until 2012, and will likely renew it beyond, that doesn't mean developers can't get creative and still release football games. As 2K Sports proved last year, not only can you still release a football game, but you can also get hall-of-famers into the action to retain an authentic experience. While All Pro Football played well, it didn't feature much in terms of value and depth, and suffered for it. So here comes a new football game from software house NaturalMotion, it's called Backbreaker.
Backbreaker takes it name from a specific goal that's been set for it: to deliver the most realistic, most dynamic, and unrepetitive tackles a football game has ever seen. Where as other football games use canned-animations, a term used to describe the repetitive, pre-determined nature of animations, Backbreaker uses NaturalMotion's Euphoria engine to the fullest. Euphoria is currently one of the physics engines that can be found in Grand Theft Auto IV and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed -- it was designed to dynamically simulate physics related to the body of a being. In Backbreaker's case, the physics will be simulating impact between 200-300lb athletes, and because Euphoria makes calculations on the fly, tackles will always be different, as opposed to pre-determined."
With Football season upon us, TechRaptors Robert Grosso tackles one of the best alternatives to Madden from last generation, Backbreaker.
Michael, Ray, and the best of the worst for the week of October 14th!
There are many sports franchises that are fantastic editions to the world of gaming, deserving both as an edition to their respective gaming field and to video gaming at large. Other franchises, however, have seen their time. It’s time for these franchises to go the way of the dinosaur before they get even worse than they already are.
Should be dissolved too. The yearly additions are essentially the same except for rosters, schedules, and new stadiums.
I would go as far as to say that most of these games are actually worse than the previous iteration.
