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Description

Backbreaker is an intense, arcade football experience. Score touchdowns by sprinting, juking and spinning past waves of oncoming defenders, racking up combos and score multipliers on your way to the endzone!

Maxim
"The most addictive sports game I've played on an iPhone"

EDGE Magazine
"Brilliant!!!"

The Appera
"It feels like PS3/360 gaming on a tiny little screen… it’s THAT good!"

Pocketgamer.co.uk
"Backbreaker Football looks amazing and the animations are topnotch. But you'd expect this of NaturalMotion - which provided the animation engine for GTA IV."

The Appera
"Just do yourself a favor and play the frickin game!"

With over 3 million downloads, Backbreaker Football has become an App Store phenomenon as one of the best-selling sports titles on the platform and a showcase for the power of smartphone technology.

NaturalMotion wanted to create a mobile game that recreated the cutting-edge animation and graphics from their console franchise. Marmalade was an obvious choice, allowing them to deliver console-quality visuals, stay within an industry-standard C++ development environment, and deploy content not only to iOS and Android but also to other emerging platforms.

As part of the process, NaturalMotion joined the Airplay Partners Program, and made their “morpheme” advanced animation technology available for Marmalade. Any Marmalade app can now leverage this technology to provide stunningly realistic character animation.

"Our goal was to build a game with high-end graphics, and a highly addictive, casual gameplay” said Torsten Reil, CEO NaturalMotion Games. “Marmalade has delivered on all fronts."

When the first Android tablets were launched, NVIDIA opened up the TegraZone portal within Android Market, and was keen to showcase the highest-quality tablet games on the planet. Backbreaker Football was top of their list, and the game was overhauled graphically. Marmalade’s full support for OpenGL ES 2.0 allowed effects such as render-to-texture (for the stadium Jumbotron screens) and full character self-shadowing.

Through its placement in the Marmalade Apps Program, NaturalMotion Games has received additional revenue advances and royalties by having Backbreaker Football delivered to Samsung Apps (bada) and Ovi Store (Symbian).