"The price is a little bit steep, but Backbreaker Vengeance is a well made title that will quite easily keep you entertained for a few hours at a time. You won’t get through all of the challenges in one run through, but you’ll certainly return to it time and time again."
With Football season upon us, TechRaptors Robert Grosso tackles one of the best alternatives to Madden from last generation, Backbreaker.
Backbreaker Vengeance is inspired by the sport of American football but ironically, this game is more suited to people who don’t want to play a simulation of the sport than to those who do. The simulation and complexity of American football has been completely stripped away. The gameplay has more in common with Stuntman Ignition, Joe Danger or Trials HD than a fully fledged feature packed simulation like the latest Madden game. The gameplay is so streamlined and focused that you will never even kick or throw a football.
There’s three main ways to play Backbreaker. There’s a mode where you run a human gauntlet to score a touchdown, there’s a mode where you try and tackle someone running across the field (and it’s not even a streaker, sadly), and there’s a mode where you do both. It’s a purely arcade, score attack kind of game. Think "American Football training simulator" more than the actual sport.
