First Look: Backbreaker

JMan1c1347

The NFL grabbing more coin just to sell their rights to one game is one of the crappiest things to happen to gaming. I've played madden since it existed, but I never would've wanted to see the disappearance of NFL Gameday, 2k football, & all the other handful of football games there were. To a person that loves sports games, having just one option is off-the-wall insane, even if that one option was a favorite you grew up with.

I've spent countless hours on FPS games like Halo 3, Call of Duty, Rainbow Six: Las Vegas 2, the list goes on. They're all great in their different ways. In fact it's the differences that make them so great sometimes.

That same line of thought can & does apply to sports games. I wouldn't want Bungie, Activision, or Ubisoft to buy the "shooter" rights & leave the other games running for their gravity hammers & throwing knives. (& for the idiots that may reply to this: that last statement wasn't literal & I'm not a Madden-hater.)

I hope Backbreaker is a great football game, but it would probably need ridiculous amounts of customization options in order for that to happen, because football fans are, more specifically, NFL fans. All-Pro Football 2k8 took a shot at it, & while it's a decent game that I still play every now & then, it falls short. Having familiar legends is great, but limiting me to only being able to pick 11 players on a 50+ man roster just adds to the BIG hurdles that a non-NFL licensed football game has to deal with.

Of course since we're all gamers here, this is just preaching to the choir. Hmmm, someone buy Roger Goodell an Xbox 360. =-P

-Jason (JMan)