It sucks when they do digital only games because this leads to lost media when they decide to take them off from the market places. Like I have the X-Men arcade game on my Xbox 360 but can't access it on my Xbox One.

Damn, backbreaker had phenomenal physics. If only madden could.

"That damn camera angle." I bought this game when it came out because I am a lifer 2k football fan that was looking for Madded alternative. The only thing that kept me from not playing this game only to this day is the camera angle. Think about that? This game is incredible and I wish it was traditional style with that option.

Just goes to show why game preservation is so important. Thank goodness for emulation

this game being a digital only game that literally does not exist anymore honestly scares the shit out of me, cause this can happen to any digital game.

It gives me goosebumps everytime some get the soul tackled out of them.

I looooved this game when I was a teenager. Every single friend I showed it to loved it too. It was the perfect mix of intense gameplay and goofy ragdoll physics. Not too many games can have a room go from locked-in to pissing their pants laughing in a few seconds.

I remember playing vengeance after trying to find the original backbreaker game. Played it at a friend's house once and tried to revisit it a few years later and boom, vengeance. It was pretty fun I miss it

Still better than madden physics wise til this day. Definitely should’ve been a remaster or 2nd installment

Love the content on these older games.

THIS GAME WAS MY CHILDHOOD! I had asked for Backbreaker 1 for my birthday one year we couldnt find it and I got this I was disappointed at first but the more i played this game the more i fell in love! It’s still on my 360 to this day!

I suspect there was some underhandedness involved with the fail of Backbreaker by EA not wanting any competition and they possibly paid game reviewers to crap all over this game and say it was a bad poorly made game. I may be wrong but probably not.

I just checked my 360 E that I got last Christmas’s marketplace, and I can still get “Vengeance” there for $15. I live in the US.

Man I loved backbreaker

The Grey Zone 😂 Those are the best tackling animations Ive ever seen on a football game

That title confused the heck out of me lol

i actually got vengeance before i got the original. made me want the game more but then i lost the original and now trying to get it back. this game entertains me while i wait. i wish this game would have more videos and recognition

Thank you for getting me into all these old sports game softdrink im having so much fun with something as simple as play now and it’s awesome

I'm not sure why a re-skinned version of this game (with official NFL licensing) hasn't been released by 2K, yet. Would be a pretty cool release, IMO (plus it would allow them to gauge interest in an 'arcade' release).

Played this game for HOURS pulling all nighters with my god brothers. Man I love those memories

I still have Backbreaker Vengeance downloaded on my Xbox 360 after all these years. Didn’t realize it’s somewhat hard to play now.

remember the NFL licensed backbreaker phone game

Never got to play backbreaker but always wanted to

Your channel is the best. I play old sports games on ps1 through ps4. So many gems! Picked up Backbreaker about a year ago. It is a lot of fun and wish I would have known about this way back when. Now not only do I lament not downloading NHL 3 on 3 arcade for PS3, but now this one too! Softmodding my PS3 is a no go though!

I cant wait for the wildcard football review from soft drink

a backbreaker sequel, interesting.

Can you please talk about Ncaa 12 and Ncaa 13

The goat

Sad to Consider that since natural motion is owned by take 2 this would have been a part of future 2k football and hockey games if they hadnt given up on the ips

I remember back breaker on the old ipod and i had it on the 360 this game was fun asf

Oh I played this on 360 and got all the achievements. Love it.

I usually buy the discs for the system

Yeah the reason he cant give links to how to download it because KZfaq is hypersensitive to anything suggesting piracy I had a video get deleted on another channel showing how to play an old mobile game on modern phones Great video btw 😄

This use to be my favourite game when it came out. Me and my kids had a blast with the multi player. Highly under rated game. And if it was available on ps store I'd purchase it again.

I just bought vengeance 2 months ago for my 8 years birthday. He absolutely loves rocking it with his friends. For him it's all about the "juking".

Your back making videos! 😄

I've been playing Backbreaker faithfully recently after figuring out the learning curve and i recently complete all 100 levels of tackle alley in less than hour

Game was so fun I lost the disc a long time ago 😢

Fun Fact: A studio called Zynga owns natural motion and 2k bought Zynga Put the 2 N 2 together 😉

Someone’s probably pointed this out already, but it’s still available on the US 360 marketplace. But of course that won’t be true come July.

Ohh yeah i have the Demo for it.. its so sadd... i also want someone to upload the ambience in the og backbreaker title screen it still gives me chills

I had this game on the 360. Grand ole time

I played this game so much as a kid. I have at least 400 hours on it.

Hopefully you’ll review Blitz The League 2 soon

I live in Europe and I can confirm it is purchasable here, I've bought it today on my Xbox 360 and I am glad to have done that as the marketplace goes down in July. However a bigger problem for me is hunting down an European copy of the original Backbreaker for X360, in my country whenever one goes up they're relatively cheap but I don't see any offers right now. I will try buying it some day.

I played this on my friends old iPod thing and it was the most fun mobile game ever that I have played

Where were you able to find NBA 2k10 Draft Combine the full unlocked version? I have searched everywhere to no avail....only the trial I have been able to locate

Was that “exaggerated swagger” part a jab at ign😭😭

I remember playing the demos of both game whwn i was young but i never had the actual money to buy it

Happy too say I still own and play it on my xbox 360

Looks like Madden 25 graphics with Madden 50 physics

Oh so they made this a download only

I’m glad I kept my copy 😊

I never even played Backbreaked but that game was goated.

Damn tackling look solid af

I preferred the camera angle, it meant you had to be better, and was way more immersive. I wish there was a similar camera angle in Madden

Never forgot i only played it twice could never buy it and sucks i cnt now cause i would have hell its quite a few dlc's and games you cant buy anymore such as this and nba 2k10 draft combine being older i cam appreciate these alot more

l feel like at some point ea or 2k will use this idea in the sports genre. One thing I always used to wonder growing up on 2K was If they made a first person camera. Backbreaker definitely was a big what if though

Imagine how great the world would be if we had a free energy source. The powers that be will never let that happen. Same thing happened to football video gaming.

Have you made a video about blitz the league? I liked playing it back then

All they gotta do is make both backbreakers backwards compatible, we need at least one more sequel with more customization, more in depth season mode, new animations, custom player builds and more game options like different camera angles for the new casuals💯 sequel should be called backbreaker resurgence🔥🔥

W video bro!

It's actually still available on the Xbox Marketplace.

I'd honestly love to see Rockstar make use of the euphoria engine for a new football/sports game. Imagine what they could do

Backbreaker with some proper fine tuning, could've been an amazing game. Had a ton of potential.

I played Backbreaker at launch, because it was one of the most hyped video games of my whole life, and I can attest that the negative reviews were not a simple matter of reviewers being bad at sports games without the handicap of the overhead "Madden camera". The launch version of Backbreaker (which is the version most reviewers played), was pretty horrible. Runners would often ragdoll if they simply grazed a defensive player, linemen couldn't block more than a second, QBs were horribly inaccurate, receivers couldn't catch, DBs intercepted almost every pass that was contested, the kicking game didn't feel intuitive, the opponent A.I. was horrible and made stupid decisions, and the difficulty levels were way out of whack. On the easy and normal difficulties, the A.I. put up no resistance to the player whatsoever, and I would win all the games by 30 or 40 points. On the hardest difficulty, however, all the problems above would kick in, making it nearly impossible to move the ball. But the CPU offenses was still so inept that if you scored at all, you'd probably still win. Want a 0-0 tie? Play an unpatched match of Backbreaker on the hardest difficulty level. After months of patches, the gameplay did get a lot better, but it was never great. As for the camera angle, I would agree with contemporary reviewers that it was problematic. In real life, players can quickly turn their head to look at different players or reads on the field, and people have peripheral vision, directional hearing, and other senses that give us greater awareness of what's going on around us. This is why a real-life QB can "sense pressure" and run away from a defensive end who beat his block, even if the QB isn't actually looking at the defender, because people in real life have a good sense for what's going on around them. The camera in Backbreaker offered a very limited field of vision, and there were no on-screen indicators to give users a feel for if a tackler is running right at you from off-screen. First person shooters usually have those little red bloodstains on the edges of the screen to indicate what direction enemy shots are coming from, which is an abstract simulation of peripheral vision, directional hearing, and so forth. Something like that would have gone a long way towards making Backbreaker more playable. Or even having the controller vibrate on one side or the other to indicate the direction of the pass rush would have been a useful (and immersive) feature. But the complete lack of peripheral awareness made passing from the pocket way harder than it needed to be. On the hardest difficulty, you likely wouldn't even have time to to get to the second read before you're sacked. About the only thing that Backbreaker had going for it was the physics, which were really good. In fact, it might *still* have the best physics of any football game then or since. But the actual *football game* that was built around those physics was not very good. I will say that despite how bad the original release was, it is a horrible shame that it never got a full sequel. The foundation was great, and an extra year or 2 of development to implement better football would have made a huge difference, and might actually have produced a genuinely good game.

They need to come back I reached out to them company a few times asking them on social media

That's why Emulation is so important. There are so many games that are gonna die when all the Digital store for the 7th gen consoles finally fade away. Emulation keeps all these amazing games alive.

Euphoria engine ? How appropriate

Literally if this game had franchise no other changes it would have been worth the money

They all run like 300lb linemen

I had this game on my moms old smartphone i think. Missed my grandparents entire 50th anniversary party sitting in the corner playing it 😂

how do you get it please tell me

Did ratings matter much in this game, or the original back breaker? Like if you had a big bruiser running back with high weight and trucking ability, did it actually make him harder to bring down? Or tall receivers with amazing hands, did they drop less balls?

Next up: NFL BLITZ (PS1)

exaggerated swagger of a guy with an 8 pack XDDDDD

I used to only play vengeance mode and barge or dive tackle the ball carrier as he hurdled. Then watch the replay 100x😂😂😂

I still play this game on my Xbox 360 console

5 months of waiting for madden 05 on the tap wave zodiac 😂😅

I found it on the 360 store

can anyone help i cant find a full verison of this for my "compeletly legal" copy can some one help?

I just got this on Xbox 360 online store and it's May of 2024 it's 1499 so I don't understand how it's not available on Xbox? You can still buy it!

I haven’t played back breaker and vengeance for like 9 years after my Xbox broke 😢 I’m looking for 1 so I can play this again

I’m pretty sure while at my grandpas house i accidentally downloaded this game instead of the original backbreaker I guess that xbox 360 is now worth a lot

I’ve got a modded PS3 this is my mission to find now

Good thing i bought it in july

I downloaded it before it got taken off psn! It's fantastic I just wish you could have played actual games not just mini games like takle alley

Except it is available…I literally just saw it on the Xbox 360 store last night.

Damn the intro to start the video was incredible. Not gonna lie, I played backbreaker as a little kid and while the gameplay was amazing, as a little kid I just didn't see anything that special in backbreaker to be honest but know looking back at it, the game was definitely good

If anyone can find the full game PKG and not the demo please let me know

What emulator is it? Does it work on mobile?

Forget GTA 6 I WANT BACKBREAKER 3

Bro this was a w game 🔥🤩

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HEY HEEEYYYYY YOU CHOSE TO REVIEW IT'S SEQUEL! GREAT CHOICE!

Damn 😂

Even if it sold physical copies, I wouldn’t even bother due to the lack of game features. The original always ages well.

W

Back when new videogame tech made developers think "how can we use this to make a fun game" rather than pushing buzz on 12% shinier ray tracing.

emulation is literally the only way to preserve games in general at this point, mobile games are probably even more difficult to find after they get taken down. companies are dumb for that smh