Backbreaker Hands-On Preview (Gameinformer)

[Crimsontide27]

Quote: Originally Posted by Afrikan

its hard to judge the AI when he plays it in Arcade mode (which he chose for some reason)....as well as not knowing settings who, what type of teams he was going against....every team should not play the same. can't wait till get my hands on the game to find out.

On the other hand, I have read a ton of reviews about all sports games that follow the same line of thinking.

A reviewer will get a copy of the game, post their impressions, and then everyone picks them apart. It " could " be the level of play, it could be the "lack" of the reviewers skill, it " could " be an earlier build etc etc.

For the most part...and its been proven on numerous first looks spanning every sports game genre Ive played...what you see is usually what you get.

This has never been proven false I dont think.

I hope the developers take this preview in stride and start tightening this game up. There seems to be some great innovations here and I think we would all hate the game to be unplayable due to some of the problems mentioned here.

[booker21]

Ouch, after reading that review my hype went from 100 to 30$ :/

The AI sounds very stupid.. oh well.. ncaa is getting closer.

[SouthernBrick]

Man I had a feeling something like this would happen but, they could of at least gave us something. Also looks like the whole name editing rumor wasn't so far fetched after all. Smart move by NM.

Very disappointed in some of things I read but, I guess there were some some good things in there but, nothing really that grabbed my attention.

SMH at no customizing player heights and weights at ALL!

[lofeazy]

The one thing I like from the article


[ You can throw the ball without using focus, but I found the accuracy was severely compromised; balls flew all over the place with no rhyme or reason as to why they would be so unruly.]


About time we have throwing errors in a next gen football game.

Like I said before the AI make are break this game.

[Afrikan]

Quote: Originally Posted by AnyGivenSunday

Man I had a feeling something like this would happen but, they could of at least gave us something. Also looks like the whole name editing rumor wasn't so far fetched after all. Smart move by NM. Very disappointed in some of things I read but, I guess there were some some good things in there but, nothing really that grabbed my attention. SMH at no customizing player heights and weights at ALL!

I don't get that either....I don't know if he explained it fully.

no custom player heights as in anything we want or is it limited to how tall or heavy you make players per position....

I mean, how would the game generate our custom teams?...would it do it randomly..hmm I don't think so....

so for now I'm just going to wait until getting more info....it could just not be "fully" customizable.

again, how would the game create players for us...will they all have the same height and weight?....from what we have seen there are different builds for the players....so are all the RBs the same height and build....no, we have seen different types of RBs....

I'm sure now that this is out the devs can comment on it more.

[SouthernBrick]

Quote: Originally Posted by Afrikan

I don't get that either....I don't know if he explained it fully. no custom player heights as in anything we want or is it limited to how tall or heavy you make players per position.... I mean, how would the game generate our custom teams?...would it do it randomly..hmm I don't think so.... so for now I'm just going to wait until getting more info....it could just not be "fully" customizable. again, how would the game create players for us...will they all have the same height and weight?....from what we have seen there are different builds for the players....so are all the RBs the same height and build....no, we have seen different types of RBs.... I'm sure now that this is out the devs can comment on it more.

It wouldn't create players for us just a certain physical attribute(pending position) which wouldn't be very hard to make the computer do because, there don't seem to be hardly any differences between players anyway. I'm just sayin don't be surprised when we have absolutely/hardly any control over player height or weight.

I'm tired of waiting, I'm calling it right now. Might be wrong, might be right but I'm not going to hold my breath on this one.

[canes21]

Like I said at thee official forums. This preview has made this game sound a lot worse than I thought it would turn out to be. This guy has managed to destroy most my hopes for the game. I still want to give it a try, but I almost need a demo now before I buy it. I used to be a Midnight buy type of guy, but this article has turned me to a maybe type of guy for the game.

[mvb34]

Quote: Originally Posted by THEBEAST454

Looks like EA SPORTS got scared and decided to throw money at GAMEINFORMER for that very PRO MADDEN, anti BACKBREAKER ,biased,new comer ***** write up it's real clear who's in bed with who around here. This website is evidence of the EA SPORTS love affair. People will have to make there own judgements come May 25.

You are joking right??