A.V. Club writes: "It’s become fashionable to disparage the Madden series, with its lock on the NFL license and ability to spit out a new iteration every 12 months. The truth is this: Though it achieved its apex several years back, year in and year out, the Madden series remains an excellent approximation of football. Yet it’s nearly impossible to resist rooting for low-expectation upstarts like Backbreaker, the games that occasionally come along and attempt—NFL license be damned—to give the graying Goliath a run for its money."
With Football season upon us, TechRaptors Robert Grosso tackles one of the best alternatives to Madden from last generation, Backbreaker.
Michael, Ray, and the best of the worst for the week of October 14th!
There are many sports franchises that are fantastic editions to the world of gaming, deserving both as an edition to their respective gaming field and to video gaming at large. Other franchises, however, have seen their time. It’s time for these franchises to go the way of the dinosaur before they get even worse than they already are.
Should be dissolved too. The yearly additions are essentially the same except for rosters, schedules, and new stadiums.
I would go as far as to say that most of these games are actually worse than the previous iteration.
