We have plenty of love for the original Backbreaker, an iPhone game that challenged players to run like mad across a football field and score touchdowns without being tackled. It wasn’t exactly the deepest of Apps, but the sharp graphics, rag doll physics and tilt controls made it a guilty pleasure. Backbreaker 2: Vengeance expands on this idea with the ability to hurdle defenders and plow through them. You can even turn the tables and tackle the ball carrier, but is this sequel worth $2.99? Eh.
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Pocket Gamer - At a glance, Backbreaker 2: Vengeance looks like a hardcore American-football sim to challenge the likes of EA's Madden.
Scratch the surface a bit deeper, though, and you'll soon discover there's no need to keep pausing the game to look up plays, nor to find out why the athletes seem so determined to share their Catholicism with a 'Hail Mary'.
SquareGo writes:
"The NFL franchise and all of its teams and players has been tightly held onto since John Madden first lent his support of the idea back in the late 80s. Then back in 2010, the makers of the groundbreaking animation engine Euphoria, NaturalMotion, thought it was time to break the hold and release an American football game without the franchise called Backbreaker..."
