Ex: 505 Games released the long-awaited Backbreaker demo to Gold-carrying members of Xbox Live on Friday, and after our recent Q&A session with developers NaturalMotion, we were eager to get our hands on the gameplay.
Below are some impressions of roughly two hours with the Backbreaker demo. This should be viewed as conversational thoughts about the demo, not a critical review of the final game.
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Gamesauce says: "Simon Mack, CTO of NaturalMotion, knew at an early age that he wanted a career in software development but, although he grew up playing games, he never considered the possibility of working in the games industry. While he was studying at his university, a friend introduced him to a company called MathEngine and the physics simulation middleware they were making. He says, “I was blown away—this was unlike anything I had seen before and more advanced than I had thought possible. I got an internship there and was hooked.”