
This game is rated ESRB: Everyone for Tobacco Reference.
Backbreaker is an American football video game developed by British studio NaturalMotion, released in 2010 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, with separate versions for iOS and Android. Because Electronic Arts holds an exclusive license for NFL content through the Madden series, Backbreaker features no official NFL teams, compensating with an extensive logo editor and team-builder that allows players to create custom franchises. The game's most distinctive technical feature is NaturalMotion's Euphoria engine, which generates character animations dynamically in response to in-game physics rather than drawing from a library of pre-set animations, resulting in more organic player movement and collisions. At launch the game drew criticism for shallow single-player modes and a weak passing system, though a post-release patch addressed several of these issues, improving AI, expanding playbooks, and refining the passing mechanics. The mobile versions were received more favorably than the console releases.
