Developer NaturalMotion Games today revealed the first details about the upcoming “Greathouse” update coming to their hyper-realistic football title Backbreaker. If you’ve been complaining incessantly on the game’s forums about particular features you’d like to see in the game, there’s a good chance your complaints/whining were heard.
NaturalMotion’s head Todd Gibbs said in the official announcement the improvements and tweaks are “taken directly from our online forums, reviews, as well as from individual players who spent time at our offices testing the latest features.”
Here are some of the big changes players can expect from the update:
- Brand new replay system with the addition of seven fully functional cameras, including free flight mode and a cinematic ‘ball-lock’ option.
- More than 100 new plays added, including an additional nine formations.
- Improved Quarterback camera view and passing game.
- A user-catch system, giving the player a much greater level of control over the on-field action.
- Interception control, the user is now given full control over interception attempts when controlling a defensive player.
- Comprehensive review of the penalty rulings following an analysis of reported errors.
The update doesn’t have an official release date just yet, but it’s expect to roll out in the next couple of weeks.
Backbreaker players: what do you think of these new features? What issues do you hope NaturalMotion addresses with the update?
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Captain-Black-Ass
the BB team is truly dedicated seeing how they made such and amazing update, fixing problems like your linemen knocking you down and now letting u run behind them and actually using them. also how the improved upon the game play by adding new features like focus mode for the running game and a stumble recovery button and many more.
http://forum.backbreakergame .com/showthread.php?t=9342
str8gamer91
this seems like a shortend version of da da patch go to youtube nd check out "apexisfree" and/or "ryanmoody21" channel for a more in detailed patch...they got da patch early from NM nd "apexisfree" even has a vid of him playin da updated BB "greathouse" just str8 game play...i was amazed at da devs wrk nd cnt wait for da patch to drop...i loved BB pre patch now idk if ima put da sticks dwn wit "greathouse" oh nd nomore fallin wen yu hit yur linemen dey fixed it...so check out there vids nd even yu will be amazed...
rickofavon
Backbreaker was very bad. I should know I bought it. Sure the physics were awesome and sometimes produces hilarious glitches. Some that are once in a life time. I remember being brought down by a LB and then he went flying off into the air after the play.
With that being said for anyone to say that Backbreaker was good is living in some kind of world where up is down and down is up. It was clearly a very rough game. This update patch should however fix a lot of the errors that the game had when it was released.
It also goes to show that Natural Motion is not like it's competition - instead of waiting for a whole year to include these minor upgrades in the game they actually released a patch to fix their game. It's a mature response from a designer willing to accept that their game is not perfect.
ColeBeans
BackBreaker Players!!! hahaha there aint no BackBreaker Players this game straight sucks!
Tmidiman
This game is a lot of fun to play. It's fast, your right on the field and in the action, the control is tight, the animation is butter smooth, and the graphics show what an HD football game should look like. It's everything that madden is not.
Sure there's room for improvement and I'm glad they are willing to listen to gamers (their customers) and make changes hopefully for the better.
I look forward to the update and a new game in 2011!
nhhs18
Can you play as real people?
edgeofblade
See, even video game football can implement instant replays of their instant replays. Why can't soccer do the same?
Razorblad110
these are all things that really were a problem with the game, but my biggest thing was the hyper-sensitive collision detection...your own blockers were a players worst opponent!
TJ311
they just need to make a new game
Phategod
It seems like a little too late I really wanted this game to Dethrone or at least challenge Madden But they seemed to Married to the control scheme, and paid no attention to many lessons learned since Techmo Bowl.
TruSpeed360
Its a start!
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