 Backbreaker is an American football video game , developed by British technology developer NaturalMotion , and released on 1 June 2010 in North America and on 25 June 2010 in Europe . One of its highlights is the use of Euphoria , a game animation engine that determines animations dynamically rather than depending on canned animations . Backbreaker does not use teams from the National Football League ( NFL ) because Electronic Arts has an exclusive license to produce NFL games in its Madden series . The game relies on an extensive logo editor and team builder that was called " one of its silver linings " . NaturalMotion announced Backbreaker in August 2007 , with a targeted release date of late 2008 . The game ended up being delayed until mid @-@ 2010 . 
