Backbreaker Video: Developer Diary #2 - Euphoria (Gamespot)

[adamgod8]

Gamespot has posted video developer diary #2 from Backbreaker. This one covering Euphoria.

Quote:

"The developers go in-depth into their Eurphoria engine to show off the amazing things it does in Backbreaker."

[boooey]

thanks!

real gang tackles!! nice

[adamgod8]

Mid-air collisions look amazing
AI Behavior looks better than expected
OL blitz pickup at 2:23...nothing even close to that in Madden
The first guy getting tackled plays for the Atlanta Falcons, I swear

"People are going to pick this game up, experience what Euphoria offers, and its going to be really hard for them to go back and play a normal canned animations sports game" - Rob Donald

[TheKasmar]

I'm excited about the collisions that will take place on special teams. 2 players running full speed into each other.

[Jimixiii]

The euphoria engine (or possibly an engine evolved from it) will be the future of sports gaming (really gaming in general). I remember Ian Cummings saying it wouldn't have the ability to break tackles, well that looks to be a lie. He actually tried make it seem like Pro-Tak is such a better system then this...I don't think so.

[kjcheezhead]

The gang tackling and stretching the ball over the goalline was cool. All done without the sliding and suction of protak.

Looked like contact on the wr before the ball arrived alot of the time. It also interested me when he was describing having to tell the defenders not to grab the facemask. This vid has me wondering about the penalties and when they will be called.

[backbreaker]

My game is starting to pan out, now we need to work on pricing.

[Dudd]

Looked a lot better than the first one, the blitz pickup was very nice, and the db/wr interactions looked great, really natural how there was subtle contact in midair as both of them went up for the ball. Hope we get some gameplay soon.