Backbreaker Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

[jp7588]

The game is a lot of fun but I really suck at it. Any time I do anything remotely successful I feel like I deserve a cookie.

I've seen a few pretty sweet moments so far.

-Opposing team was punting with a 25 MPH wind in the punters face. The punt made it about 20 yards downfield, hit the ground and bounced high in the air. One of the opposing gunners leapt in the air for the ball as about 8 guys converged on it. I bumped into him and sent him spinning like a helicopter. Someone else caught it and a big pile-up ensued.

-CPU QB passed over the middle. My safety and CB both closed on the ball at the same time in front of the receiver. The safety got there first, caught the ball, bowled over his teammate (the CB) and ran it in for 6.

-I blitzed around the edge as the OLB and tried to dive and sack the QB. I completely whiffed and knocked the isht out of one of my own guys on the other side of him lol.

[CaptainZombie]

Tuesday can't get here fast enough. Thanks for the impressions 360 owners.

[Titans4lyfe]

Just finish watching a video on youtube showing off the halftime stats, and something I noticed was a stat for assisted tackles. I can't recall what year madden started keeping track of that. I'm a bit suprised of how in-depth the stat tracking is (Was expecting BTL2 type stat tracking). I'm definitely impressed.

[boritter]

I wish that you controlled the same player as the play before. I always want to be the DE but this changes my player each time. I know I can pick the player in the playcall menu but I don't want to do that every down.

Pre-snap is there a way to "aim" the defender you want to switch to or do you have to cycle through all the defenders? In other games you can hold A and point to a defender to switch but I cannot see how to do that in BB.

[Methlab]

Quote: Originally Posted by allstar3970

what? nobody's looking for jersey patches, hand towels, and where the cornerbacks eyes are at all times? it's funny how with Madden every single detail is nitpicked, but not so here. I just think everybody's so starved for something different that this is bound to be overrated a bit.

I think you fail to grasp that the other game has basically been the same product for over 7 years so people are bound to look for little details after a while. BB is a whole new experience. I am sure by BB3, people will be looking for the same little stuff.

[Sigma4Life]

Quote: Originally Posted by boritter

I wish that you controlled the same player as the play before. I always want to be the DE but this changes my player each time. I know I can pick the player in the playcall menu but I don't want to do that every down. Pre-snap is there a way to "aim" the defender you want to switch to or do you have to cycle through all the defenders? In other games you can hold A and point to a defender to switch but I cannot see how to do that in BB.

In options you can pick which position you want to start each play as.

[jp7588]

I just threw a pass to my half back across the middle. He wasn't looking when I threw it and it was only like 5 yards away so the ball just hit him in the back. I guess that's good.

[The GIGGAS]

I literally got no time with the game, but here are about 10 minutes worth of impressions (I haven't even learned the controls yet).

Camera is odd to me, but I'm super used to playing the bird's eye style of football. I'll try to get used to it.

Running the ball is FUN. I was running looking for a hole, one opened up, and I slammed through it for a couple of yards. Watched the replay a couple times, it was awesome.

I only got one pass off, it was an interception. My QB was moving to the side and had to do a jump pass, and the ball couldn't quite get there... props on that.

So far, I like the potential.