

“For Backbreaker Vengeance this means that all players interactions, be they tackles shoves, obstacle collisions, are completely unique… every time.” Anything else is just canned animation data that’s played back from disk. “Euphoria makes the game live,” he says, “it’s as simple as that. Reil is also excited about being able to use the Euphoria engine in Vengeance, which will give the game more realistic, more brutal looking tackles. “So the digital route was the obvious way to go.” “Quite frankly, we wanted to give people a new Backbreaker experience for the summer, something that’s easy to pick up, but with hours of gameplay,” he explains. “The formula is already working incredible well on iOS, where Backbreaker has racked up more than 5 million downloads so far.”Īs for going completely digital, the project just seemed right for a platform like Xbox Live Arcade. “We got a lot of messages from people asking us to take the ‘Tackle Alley’ mini-game from the original and do it justice on console,” Reil explains. And for NaturalMotion, it seemed to be a no-brainer. From Vengeance‘s single-player game to its all new multiplayer, there should be enough to keep fans sated this summer. Some fans may be wondering why we’re not seeing a full-on release of a “true” Backbreaker sequel, but there’s still plenty of content here. “In many ways, Vengeance is a spin-off that was driven by fan requests,” says Reil.

We caught up with NaturalMotion’s Torsten Reil to get the scoop. Oh, and multiplayer did I mention you’ll be able to drop your friends (and hard) against the AstroTurf? What the means in English is easy to dive into arcade-style football action, along with console-quality visuals powered by NaturalMotion’s own Euphoria. NaturalMotion is saying that Vengeance looks to “take intensity and AAA appeal of the original Backbreaker Football console game and combines it with the pick-up-and-play nature” of the iOS game. “Simple”? Your sore digital bones will speak otherwise.

In “Tackle Alley,” you’re tasked with running down the field towards the end zone while evading defenders… simple as that. Vengeance will feature two modes “Vengeance” and “Tackle Alley” mode from the original console Backbreaker, which was later spun off into an iOS title all its own. It’s being called Backbreaker: Vengeance, and it’s all about bone-crunching sacks and pure fun. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.This year, developer NaturalMotion will be bringing its high-adrenaline football franchise, Backbreaker, to Xbox Live Arcade. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
