Backbreaker Developer: "Very Unlikely That We Will Revisit Full-On Football Again"

[Steve_OS]

Late Thursday night, a user on the Backbreaker forums posted a correspondence via private messaging with the head developer of the Backbreaker franchise, Todd Gibbs:

Unfortunately, and unofficially, it is very unlikely that we will revisit BB/full-on football again. The company has changed direction and is currently not looking at console game.

I'll try to get the guys to do something more official and post on the forum.

Thanks for all your support over the years, its been fun

Todd

As of Friday morning, the official Backbreaker forums are down for maintenance, but the original post can still be seen via Google's cache feature.

If this is in fact the end of Backbreaker on consoles, at least the series retired a winner, with June's stellar Backbreaker: Vengeance, still available on Xbox Live Arcade, and on Playstation 3 in the PAL region.

[liftheavy]

Re: Backbreaker Developer: "Very Unlikely That We Will Revisit Full-On Football Again

Huge disappointment!

[LingeringRegime]

Re: Backbreaker Developer: "Very Unlikely That We Will Revisit Full-On Football Again

Save us Virtual Concepts you are our only hope.

[FootballDetails]

Maybe one day the NFL will see the downside of the exclusive license agreement.

[BEARYChi]

Madden needs competition,starting with EA Sports sharing the NFL license.

[StL_RamZ]

This is such a huge disappointment..I thought this was going to be the "madden killer"

Thanks EA for ruinning another great company that released football games

EA: 2

Others: 0

[1WEiRDguy]

sad day in the world of gaming

[jagsrock95]

not surprised at all. As much as I love the technology behind Backbreaker the game it's self was very uninspired and the developers seemed very content with making mini games as opposed to a full fledge product. But sad indeed...there was so much potential here =(

[PaleVermilion]

Re: Backbreaker Developer: "Very Unlikely That We Will Revisit Full-On Football Again

This is such a huge disappointment..I thought this was going to be the "madden killer"

Thanks EA for ruinning another great company that released football games

EA: 2

Others: 0

This is not EA's fault. Come on. NaturalMotion dug their own grave with releasing a game that wasn't quite ready, releasing a patch that then broke their not ready game, and failed to support it further.

[FroznYogurt]

Ahh, what a shame. I remember the world of potential this game had when it was first released. Unfortunately, it never panned out.

[nolesfan69]

Come on Tecmo!

[dcal]

Re: Backbreaker Developer: "Very Unlikely That We Will Revisit Full-On Football Again

My wishful thinking hope:
Natural Motion is licensing the base code and Euphoria engine for Backbreaker to a third party company making a football game, and part of the agreement is that Natural Motion kill off Backbreaker full on football as we know it.

One can dream right? It is amazing that they would just squash something that had so much promise.

[K0ZZ]

Re: Backbreaker Developer: "Very Unlikely That We Will Revisit Full-On Football Again

How is it EA's fault that a terrible football game failed?

It didn't even feel like football, football logic didn't work and it was all based around arcade gameplay. It wasn't about to compete with Madden, maybe Blitz the League, or the orginal blitzes, but it was never a sim game.

Yeah it had a lot of potential but they didn't put the effort and let it collapse. Which is sad because a physics based football game that actually came out good would be beautiful.

[LingeringRegime]

Re: Backbreaker Developer: "Very Unlikely That We Will Revisit Full-On Football Again

How is it EA's fault that a terrible football game failed?

It didn't even feel like football, football logic didn't work and it was all based around arcade gameplay. It wasn't about to compete with Madden, maybe Blitz the League, or the orginal blitzes, but it was never a sim game.

Yeah it had a lot of potential but they didn't put the effort and let it collapse. Which is sad because a physics based football game that actually came out good would be beautiful.

Who said it was EA's fault?

[mestevo]

Who said it was EA's fault?

This isn't a very big thread...

This is such a huge disappointment..I thought this was going to be the "madden killer"

Thanks EA for ruinning another great company that released football games

EA: 2

Others: 0