Backbreaker S-U-C-K-S

[necroplasm]

I like backbreaker because of the physics. It uses naturalmotion..so NO tackle is EVER the same. It's great once you get used to the controls, and camera angle. And plus..it's not even coming out at full price. (will be 49.99) So, this is pretty much a buy for me.

That's why I like it. It's something new, ya know? I'm sick of EA sports... I just want to play a realistic football game. Hopefully these guys that made Backbreaker will get a shot to make an NFL game after that BS exclusive license crap is dead.

Madden 10/11 is still the most complete football game we have right now. I can't wait to the BS license thing to be over either, because I would love for 2k to start making NFL games. 2k owns EA sports in even aspect of sports gaming, and EA knows it. This Backbreaker crap just doesn't come close though.

If 2K could bring their series back, EA would make much better games

I just think they're lazy without competition.

[Awesomeness!!]

yeah sort of how WWE got when WCW folded.

[Awesomeness!!]

I do agree that Madden does repackage their game for about 3,4 years then add a feature or something that people will care about. All they did from 2001-2004 was update the rosters and again from 2005-2009. 2010 was good, but 2011 will be a repackaged version of 2010...

[necroplasm]

2010 was good, but 2011 will be a repackaged version of 2010...

Yup. They left out certain things when they put Madden 10 on the shelves, so people would see Madden 11 and say.."Wow, Madden 10 don't have that!!" so people will buy Madden 11. That's the only way they sell their games every year.

But see with Backbreaker, if you like it, you can keep that game for a few years or so, and enjoy it... since you don't need to update the rosters.

They'll probably just release new stadiums and stuff through DLC.

[Mesmer]

It's fair enough if you don't like Backbreaker, but if you're looking for a similar experience to Madden why would you even think about playing this?

[C47]

Madden 10/11 is still the most complete football game we have right now. I can't wait to the BS license thing to be over either, because I would love for 2k to start making NFL games. 2k owns EA sports in even aspect of sports gaming, and EA knows it. This Backbreaker crap just doesn't come close though.

NHL 10 begs to differ my friend....

[necroplasm]

real time physics > scripted animations

[stankowalski]

I do agree that Madden does repackage their game for about 3,4 years then add a feature or something that people will care about. All they did from 2001-2004 was update the rosters and again from 2005-2009. 2010 was good, but 2011 will be a repackaged version of 2010...

Yep. I haven't bought Madden since the 2008 version, and I played that a few hours but at that time I didn't have xbox live so I could only really play franchise mode. And that froze up on me a bunch, so I took it back and haven't bought one since. I may buy this year's though...maybe they've fixed franchise mode by now.

[necroplasm]

I remember before 2005, you had NFL Gameday, Madden, NFL2K, Blitz, NFL Xtreme.

Ahhh...those were the days....when you had a choice.

[southcakalac]

I played the demo a couple of days ago. I really like their euphoria real motion thing. Is that what it was called? I just hit the bowl, I can't remember. Anyways the thing that I didn't like was the defense camera.

I always play as a DE on football games. With the way the camera switches, you get totally lost. If it could be tweaked some more and get NFL licensing (not gonna happen) the game would be great. IMHO

[necroplasm]

This game is innovation. Not many people like innovation or change these days.

I will say this though, the game does have it's own flaws...but with the first game of something new, I'm very impressed. I also love the create custom features in the game.