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Posted: May 11th 2010 3:39AM leemahi said

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Great video, even though it was on GT.com 4 days ago!

Game looks fun but if the right stick is controlling the players actions, whats controlling the camera! If its the computer and I end up getting side swiped from my peripherals, Id be pretty upset.

Posted: May 13th 2010 9:58AM (Unverified) said

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wow a football game with proper physics

finally comes out this gen in 2010

i will be buying this day 1, not to spite madden, but it looks like it will be a really fun game with the customization

freaking madden you get sucked into defenders

Posted: May 11th 2010 4:07AM leemahi said

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The game looks so fun. This is what I thought the future of Madden was gonna be like in 2005 when I saw renders of Madden 2006 in gameinformer. Madden looks exactly the same since 2001.
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Posted: May 11th 2010 5:17AM Anticrawl said

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4BWRSQ-aQk

You know you guys are gonna hurt my feelings lolol. Seriously Tiburon only has 9 months to make these games.
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Posted: May 11th 2010 8:52AM Xoonaka said

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Or, you know, 10+ years if you consider it all just one evolving project. It's not like they fix half of the bugs in the game anyhow, so it's really just like a bunch of milestones as opposed to full releases.

They should stop remaking the art every year, maybe.
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Posted: May 11th 2010 3:44AM (Unverified) said

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thanks for the info


Beautiful Girl in Yoga Pose

Posted: May 11th 2010 7:31AM ipsum said

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...what?
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Posted: May 11th 2010 5:09AM Jacksy said

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This game doesn't look bad at all. I'm tired of the madden series and it would be awesome if they were to over throw madden. All you need is fun gameplay and solid DLC and as far as I can tell they got the controls down pretty good, it seems. I wonder if this game is going straight to that price?

Posted: May 11th 2010 5:33AM Tezz said

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1. i like that its using the euphoria engine, great little engine that one.

and

2. if done properly this could do what skate did to tony hawk - complete and uttlerly assrape it.

Posted: May 11th 2010 7:54AM MC Double Def DP said

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at least it won't require an online activation code.

Posted: May 11th 2010 8:38AM Peacefuloutrage said

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Visual Concepts made the Madden team work. Nothing like competition to light the fire! And I'm all for some arcade action.

Posted: May 11th 2010 8:45AM danijami23 said

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this looks fantastic, and I'm a british sports hater. The physics look great, and the right stick controls kinda remind me of Skate's flickit system. I am greatly looking forward to this.

Posted: May 11th 2010 9:15AM Lerkero said

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I just wanna play Blitz 2000 again. Why does no one understand that?

Posted: May 11th 2010 4:08PM Anticrawl said

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That was the last football game I purchased. NFL Blitz 2000. I waited til the midnight release to pick up my copy.
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Posted: May 11th 2010 9:38AM deaconblade360 said

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you guys can't be serious in thinking this game will do anything to Madden sales. it'll do just about as much as All Pro did for 2K. nothing. people (the majority anyway) aren't interested in playing a fake football game in which you have to create characters, colors and teams.

euphoria engine or not. and proper physics? lol ok. i hope it does well but i'm not going to fool myself into thinking this game has any chance especially at $50. $30 or $40 maybe but not $50.

it's a very very long uphill battle for any football game that doesn't have the NFL behind it. that's just the reality of it.

Posted: May 11th 2010 9:39AM (Unverified) said

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i'm not naive enough to believe that is actually going to sell all that many copies, the best we can hope for is that it sells enough copies to get EA's attention to the point that they make wholesale changes to the tired as hell madden engine. Buuut that probably won't happen either. as long as there continues to be an army of Madden sheep happily buying the same game every year with almost no real changes, and since EA bought their way out of competion a few years ago...we're screwed. well not really. i'm still playing all pro football 2k8, which is awesome...but you get my point.

Posted: May 11th 2010 11:40AM SisypheanLife said

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Perhaps if this does well enough, EA will just buyout the rights and integrate Backbreaker's advances into Madden 12.
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Posted: May 11th 2010 9:46AM Vcize said

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Sports puns are the worst :\

Posted: May 11th 2010 11:11AM (Unverified) said

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Hopefully there will be a demo.

Posted: May 11th 2010 11:45AM DaPreacher said

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If they had the NFL license they would have a chance, without it...... I dont see good things.

Posted: May 11th 2010 12:46PM MGTrey said

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There's no slide option for QBs? Ouch.

Anyways, I love the physics engine. I might check this game out just because of it.

Posted: May 11th 2010 1:11PM NIck PSN ID Rattlehead91 said

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Backbreaker seems to be a football game featuring men, not little boys, so it makes sense that the slide feature might be missing.
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Posted: May 12th 2010 3:16PM (Unverified) said

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QB slide is down on the RS.
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Posted: Jun 7th 2010 9:12PM (Unverified) said

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wow so many games for systems i dont have righ now. as of right now there are about 6 games i want for the ps3, and i dont even have a ps3. backbreakers, (if its a ps3 title) of course, but im so sick of madden, i lost interest in it around 03. i was so hyped to get madden 01 for the ps2, THAT was a nice madden, seeing the huge difference between madden on ps1 and ps2. but im so sick of the same thing over and over and over, who cares about a license anymore. remember blades of steel? tecmo bowl? mutant league hockey/football? mega man soccer? see my point, no license, and you all played those games, and loved them. when a kart racing game comes out like atv off road, or mario kart, no one screams a cry baby scream about those games not having kawasaki racing licenses, so why on football? mario strikers, baseball, soccer, toadstool cup, etc, no one cares about a license for those games, why? because they are intuitive, fun, addictive, and enjoyable. do i care in backbreakers if i have a reciever named randy moses? or joe throwback? jason rice? (im sure you can tell who they are supposed to be). no, u know why? because mutant league football and hockey both had bones jackson, and NO ONE, not ONE DAMNED PERSON i ever came across who played those games were like, "man theyre ripping off bo jackson", ui know why? becuae you all were like, holy crap, tahts supposed to be bo jackson! hes a bad-assed skeleton whos going to shoulder rock your head off and bribe the ref, thats why. pull your heads out of your asses, have fun and enjoy yourself.

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