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One of the Free Apps things mentioned one day that Backbreaker 2 was free. I seemed to recall Backbreaker being a big name attempt at sort of recreating NFL Blitz, and that sounded like an entertaining little game, so I picked it up. Why not? It was free, and while I don’t give a shit about football, I did enjoy Blitz, so who knows?

It’s not really anything like a game, really.

Backbreaker 2 seems to be two minigames that are vaguely football themed. You make a little football dude with some very limited options. (But it does put your name on the back of the jersey, so that’s kind of cool.) Then you either attempt to make touchdowns, or tackle people making touchdowns. Both games are basically the same. You use tilt to move your dude around, and to its credit, it responds pretty well. If you run over colored parts of the field, you get extra points, but you’re mostly trying to dodge defenders and get to the guy you’re trying to tackle or the endzone. In the standard mode, you also can “Showboat” and “Super Showboat” for lots of points, but that slows you down a lot, so you have to decide if you’re safe enough to do it and for how long, which I suppose adds an element of strategy to scoring points? Something like that. You can also spin or sidestep with buttons on the screen.

That’s really it. There is “Endurance” and “Challenge” modes, but I see no difference between them. I guess Endurance will continue forever if you don’t fail? I don’t know. There’s also a huge ad for some XBLA Backbreaker game every time you turn the game on, so that’s fantastic.

I can’t complain, as it was free, but this really wasn’t what I wanted. I wanted a silly, fun Football game. I could see a game with heavy hits like Blitz that I played by drawing plays on the iPad or something. I envisioned a game that was way more than this is. It’s just a high score fest, and since I give no shits about football, it really doesn’t have any appeal with it’s theme to keep me coming back. I wouldn’t tell you to pay money for it, even if you were a football person though. There has to be a cooler, actual football game on the service. I just don’t claim to know what it is.