Natural Motion’s Backbreaker Football Goes Gold, Sequel In Production

We here at Ripten have been following Natural Motion’s Backbreaker both directly and indirectly since we started the site in 2007. At first we assumed that the quirky blue test animations were linked to the then yet to be released All Pro Football game by 2K Sports.

Of course those tests were later confirmed to be associated with the soon to be released Backbreaker title which just went gold last, and with NaturalMotion’s Torsten Reil tweeting that “most of the team [has] already rolled onto BB2″, it clearly shows that their internal confidence in the game is very high.

Will the Spring 2010 release (June 1st in the US) offer up some serious Madden competition? Probably nothing substantial, but that doesn’t mean that fans of American football shouldn’t give it a go. It’s got a unique enough twist and some serious non-canned animation technology behind it.

I’ll certainly be giving the game a few chucks down field; a few runs up the gut; one or two screen plays to the … you get the idea. Share your thoughts on the game in the comments section below.

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  • myles

    all this game has to do is not SUCK, and thats all it will take for backbreaker to become the premiere football game.

    People are just getting tired of playing the same madden engine since 06. Sure madden 11 will still sell huge (people are nfl addicts), but backbreaker has more than a good shot at catching on in a phenomenal way.

    Think about what Skate did to Activisions Tony Hawk.

    No one thought it had a shot in hell to become its own franchise, but it completely changed the way skating games were made and conceived. Backbreaker is literally doing the exact same thing with football, and i think the conditions for it are ripe; like i said, people want a new football game.