Backbreaker (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Backbreaker

Backbreaker is an American football video game, developed by British technology developer NaturalMotion, and released on 1 June 2010 in North America and on 25 June 2010 in Europe. One of its highlights is the…

57 29 September 2009

What Backbreaker is

Backbreaker is a sport game developed by NaturalMotion and released in 2009. It was published by 505 Games. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Android and iOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Backbreaker is an American football video game, developed by British technology developer NaturalMotion, and released on 1 June 2010 in North America and on 25 June 2010 in Europe. One of its highlights is the use of Euphoria, a game animation engine that determines animations dynamically rather than depending on canned animations. Backbreaker does not use teams from the National Football League (NFL) because Electronic Arts has an exclusive license to produce NFL games in its Madden series. The game relies on an extensive logo editor and team builder that was called "one of its silver linings". NaturalMotion announced Backbreaker in August 2007, with a targeted release date of late 2008…

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

Backbreaker holds a critic score of 57 out of 100. That places it above 19% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 10 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Backbreaker launched on 29 September 2009, within three weeks of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat and Pokémon SoulSilver Version. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Pokémon SoulSilver Version.

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