PS3 demo should be available today.
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PS3 demo should be available today.
It's not even worth the download. No, I'm not kidding.
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Originally Posted by cdj
Wow I had high hopes for this game. However, everywhere I go people bash this game to death. EA has to be smiling though.Quote:
Originally Posted by IOUaBeatn
Man it's terrible...I even gave the demo a good hour+Quote:
Originally Posted by CLW
Eh, it was at least worth the download. Funny thing is that I'm sucking at it worse than I am at NCAA. And I'm doing pretty bad at NCAA.Quote:
Originally Posted by IOUaBeatn
Got my Road to Backbreaker trophy tonight, which unlocked the platinum, and I did so in dramatic fashion. Road to Backbreaker is simple. You start out in an 8 team league. Your goal is to win that league and advance to the next season which is 16 teams. Your goal there is to win that and advance to the 32 season where your goal is to obviously win the league, beat the all star team, which beats Road to Backbreaker. They dumb down your team at the very beginning of the 8 team league and you use credits you get from winning to buy better free agents. It also increases in difficulty with each league. So, I go undefeated in my first league, advance to the 2nd. I go undefeated in that and advance to the 3rd and final league.
That's where the trouble starts. I'm playing with 1 minute quarters and the hardest difficulty, so it's kind of hard to get into rhythm offensively. I start out 6-7 with the 25th best record in the league. The top team is 10-1-1. I look on the internet and realize that I HAVE to finish first for the stupid trophy to unlock, so here I am, basically halfway through and no way to turn back. Probably should have looked before, but oh well. I start running the ball instead of throwing all the time and eventually work my way to 16-10 with 5 games remaining and I'm tied with another team. I pull the 5 remaining games out of my ass and finish with a record of 21-10, which is tied for the best record in the league. Supposedly, that was good enough, as they gave me the game against the All Stars. If I win, I get my trophy. It's tied 0-0 at the half. I blew a fairly decent opportunity to get a score at the end of the half, which was my own fault. They drive down and waste the entire 3rd quarter. They're inside my 20 and I look over to my buddy and say, "I REALLY need a pick here." Sure enough, next play, CPU throws a bullet right to my user controlled defender. :D
I work my way to midfield with 12 seconds left and overthrow a pass on a wide open receiver. There's 6 seconds left, it's 4th down, and I'm at midfield with the scored tied at 0. I run a go route, pump fake, and throw a bomb for the hell of it. While the ball is in the air, the DB covering me slips and falls flat on his face(it was raining) and my wide out catches the ball and starts running. I get tackled at the 1, but my wide out sticks out the ball and crosses the goal line as time expires. Ding. End of the Road. Ding. Platinum Trophy. Gorgeous.
Did the cpu play better in that 32 game season? Sounds like you had a bit of a challenge.Quote:
Originally Posted by IOUaBeatn
Not really. With one minute quarters, it's kind of hard to put distance between yourself. It comes down to whether or not they put together a bullshit scoring drive or not. If they drive down and score a TD and waste a half, then I only have 2 minutes to score the tying touchdown. If I had played with 5 minute quarters, it wouldn't have been nearly as challenging.Quote:
Originally Posted by lilheavy
Gotcha
I downloaded the demo. Tackle alley was fun. My son thought it was hilarious and liked playing it too. The demo just goes up to Wave 5 so I was disappointed when it wouldn't let me continue. The tackles are pretty cool. I tried a brief exhibition game and I do like the defensive camera better than the player lock option in NCAA because I like how the camera doesn't rotate automatically and it's a bit more zoomed out. I'd love it if NCAA offered a true defensive camera (just rotate it 180 degrees). The offensive camera angle is horrible. I'll never try playing it again. I'm just going to leave the demo on to play tackle alley. My son liked it so if that gets him more interested in football I'll take it!
I do not try to convert people to like this game - they either are willing to put in the time and learn to play a different style of football game or they are not...but to write it off so completely is a mistake.
There are many, many things missing - most of which have been cataloged in this thread, but the one thing it does do spot on is handle player interactions - collisions, blocking, hits, gang tackles, etc. The things that Backbreaker is missing are all the things that the EA games have on them in spades. Presentation, player models, playbooks, stadiums, etc. But the one thing utterly missing in EA's renditions remains convincing gang tackles and a dearth of tackle and blocking animations in general.
Backbreaker is a mediocre title with some incredible elements to it. I will never be convinced otherwise...it was an elaborate effort to get EA to license the technology for their sports games. With the announcements of real time physics in NHL and NBA 11 titles, I can see that EA decided to go on the cheap and reverse engineer their own version for their games. Make no doubt, THE addition to NCAA 12 and Madden 12 will be EA's homegrown version of real time physics.
Backbreaker is a commercial failure, but it is also a landmark turning point in sports gaming. After spending time with it, I can say that the total lack of multiple impacts (or any real impacts at all for that matter) makes the NCAA demo feel incredibly robotic and sterile and the videos of Madden 11 fair even worse. It will be a geat day for all gamers when EA finally either gets their own real-time physics into the game or just breaks down and licenses Euphoria for the task. PRO-TAK is a hideous failure when viewed side-by-side with the real gang tackles of Euphoria. I just hope the same is not true for EA's homebrewed real-time physics...
That's interesting about the sharing of the technology and such. Around 2006 I think we split off a lot of disciplines that shared between different games into their own departments that supported multiple titles. I wonder if that decision was based off this guy's analysis?Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
So I went and bought a used copy....and........its already back at the store, it was just terrible and I'm fairly easy to please.Quote:
Originally Posted by IOUaBeatn
Wow! LOL!Quote:
Originally Posted by oweb26
How much did the one-hour rental end up costing you?
A couple of hours out of my life, I got a full refund baby, pros of buying used.
I still have mine. I'm waiting for GS to have a good deal on trade ins and then I'll definitely get rid of it. If anyone wants it on here, $20 and it's yours! It's the best game I've played this generation! :D:D
$20 with minus $10 shipping and I'll buy it. $10 is about all I'll pay to try to whore the trophies.Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
That's probably about all it's worth. If I can't get rid of it within the next week or so, I'll just let you have it. Every time I plan on taking it to Gamestop, something happens that makes it impossible to do so, and I know for a fact the trade in value for something like this drops every day. I doubt if it's even worth $15 now.
It's already down to $45 on Amazon, and it hasn't even been a month since release. :D
It actually started at $45 at release LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
Oh, wow. I should have bought it from them instead. I had gotten a $50 GS card as a gift a long ass time ago, and figured this was the perfect opportunity to spend it. It probably would have been better spent on Hannah Montana.