Hearing players crash into one another is just as impressive as watching it. A nice selection of tracks compliments the exceptional effects. The audio is equally impressive, granted you can handle the hip-hop overtones of the soundtrack.
The player animations during collisions are impressive, even if they have the occasional weird transition. Natural Motion, the inventors of the engine (also used in games like The Force Unleashed and, more notably, the Grand Theft Auto series), developed this game. Visually, the game packs a solid punch with the Euphoria physics engine as the highlight of the package. Still, if you take it for what it is, you will undoubtedly have fun with it. $15 for a stripped down version of the gridiron will be hard to swallow for a lot of people. There are a total of 80 challenges in all and working your way up the leaderboard is definitely fun, but the game’s price is still its biggest barrier to entry. Teaming up with friends is infinitely more enjoyable than playing against the AI, and there are even leaderboard integration woven into each challenge. Speaking of which, Vengeance offers all of these modes online, as well as locally. This is by far the most enjoyable mode when played with friends. Finally, we have Supremacy, which has you racing against four other ball carriers. Vengeance lets you assume the other side of the ball and chase down ball carriers for sweet domination. Showboating and performing tricks boost your score and are what is necessary to dominate the leaderboards. Tackle Alley has you moving downfield avoiding tacklers and working through mazes to get to the endzone. The game is broken down into waves, so think of it as Horde mode taking place inside a fantasy football league and you will get the general idea. You can also switch roles, but that is pretty much the end of the diversity.
Instead, you run from one side of the field to the other, trying to rack up points while avoiding tacklers. For example, there are no passing drills, play calling or field goal kicking involved. Now this may sound tantalizing on paper, but when you consider that a lot of the fundamentals of football have been omitted here, things start to break apart. While some might be expecting a trimmed-down game of football, what we are given instead is a collection of obstacle courses that just happen to be centered in the realm of football. Fast-forward to this year and 505 Games brings it back in bite-sized form with Backbreaker Vengeance. There were a few issues, such as the QB camera and, of course, a lack of an NFL license, but it was surprisingly fun for what it was. The Euphoria engine was great at rendering tackles and animations, making for a smooth playing football game. When Backbreaker was released last year, I thought it had potential.
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