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Backbreaker on Mac - installation guide

About the game

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. Backbreaker received mixed reviews. While it was praised for the Euphoria animation system, realistic physical gameplay, and the logo editor, it was also criticized for its weak online play, poor passing game, and lack of depth in single-player modes. After the reviews, the passing game was adjusted by the greathouse patch. The Xbox 360 version of the game received an overall rating of 54% from review aggregator Metacritic, while the PlayStation 3 version received a 58%. The iOS and Android version was given a rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars by Touch Arcade. A patch released on 6 August 2010, alleviated many of the issues critics had with the game upon release and included upgrades such as: improved AI, new play books and an enhanced replay feature.[1]
First released: Sep 2009

Backbreaker on Mac through Parallels Desktop

If you've been using a Mac for any amount of time after switching from a Windows machine, you've certainly heard of Parallels. Parallels is a virtualization software that allows you to use another operating system withing your native OS. This means that you will have access to a full Windows installation on your Mac.

This is the safest way to run any Windows game on Mac, including Backbreaker. Read on for easy to follow instructions on how to run Backbreaker on your Mac within minutes.

Here's the best part: you only need to do the setup once. After that, you will be able to install games on your Mac just as easily as you can on a Windows machine.

Backbreaker on Mac - how to install

Step 1
Visit the Parallels website and get the latest version of Parallels Desktop.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will ask you to do so).
Step 3
When asked, download and install Windows 10. The download is roughly 5.7GB. At various points in the installation process it will ask you for permission, make sure you grant it.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are done with the setup. All you need to do is install Backbreaker normally like you would on any Windows computer.

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