NHL 11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (360, PS3)

[06woz]

Quote: Originally Posted by goosedennis

A clip for the ages: Chara was taking a slapper from the blue line, hit my guy's stick, it broke, then went in the goal. The ref came in, waved it off, and reviewed it. Called no goal and the game went to OT because it hit his glove. Off the faceoff, Richards tied up Backstrom and Gagne took it. Chara laid him out and Doughty went the other way, and hit the crossbar. It hit off of the back of the goalie's head and in. EA, I love you.

Goal shouldn't have been disallowed. . . Sorry if that ruins your moment.

[bill2451]

Quote: Originally Posted by goh

At least I can win a face-off this year. The AI gets 90% of the rebounds regardless of who's shooting where and the passing is worse than Backbreaker with the patch...I know that's a football game but that's the only game I've had a worse time passing in. I'm also fairly certian this is the only game that puts its ending in the demo. My initial impression was that it feels more cheap and rigged than ever but I'm not sure anymore. Give it a rent I guess. Edit: Nvm. It is cheaper and more rigged than ever. Not even worth renting.

care to elaborate on your issues? because you seem to be the only one that has them

honestly, you compare the passing in this game to being "harder" than Backbreaker... perhaps your playing on too difficult a level then, or your skills are beyond sub par (the fact that you imply you couldn't win faceoffs last year seems to indicate you don't actually know how to play, because I didn't even have a slight challenge w/ faceoffs until I played on Superstar last year)

either way, maybe its you and not the game

[DJ]

Finally got to spend some time with the 360 version of the Demo and came away very impressed. I still play NHL 10 and NHL 11 just feels like a very polished version of that game, with some nice additions.

I switched to Manual passing several months ago in NHL 10, so I thought the passing in the Demo was just fine. It felt a bit more responsive than 10, which I liked.

I'm sure it is there but I didn't notice a huge difference in terms of the new physics engine that they put into the game.

I like that goalies are more aggressive to play pucks behind the net.

Goal variety seems improved from 10.

Graphics are a little crisper than 10, but not a huge difference (and I wasn't expecting there to be)

Now comes the hard part, deciding on whether to part ways with NHL 10 right now and trade it in towards 11, or hold on to the game, play it for a few more weeks and get 11 later in the year, perhaps as late as Christmas?

[goosedennis]

Quote: Originally Posted by 06woz

Goal shouldn't have been disallowed. . . Sorry if that ruins your moment.

I thought that I typed that he punched it in, but apparently not.

[CS10029]

Quote: Originally Posted by Djwlfpack

Finally got to spend some time with the 360 version of the Demo and came away very impressed. I still play NHL 10 and NHL 11 just feels like a very polished version of that game, with some nice additions. I switched to Manual passing several months ago in NHL 10, so I thought the passing in the Demo was just fine. It felt a bit more responsive than 10, which I liked. I'm sure it is there but I didn't notice a huge difference in terms of the new physics engine that they put into the game. I like that goalies are more aggressive to play pucks behind the net. Goal variety seems improved from 10. Graphics are a little crisper than 10, but not a huge difference (and I wasn't expecting there to be) Now comes the hard part, deciding on whether to part ways with NHL 10 right now and trade it in towards 11, or hold on to the game, play it for a few more weeks and get 11 later in the year, perhaps as late as Christmas?

All I can say is get it now. Playing a full game in NHL11 is gonna be awesome, then think about a whole season. Oh no, I've gotta go lie down.

Quote: Originally Posted by goosedennis

I thought that I typed that he punched it in, but apparently not.

And that, is pretty cooooool.

[Vikes1]

Had a game tonight that went into OT tied at 2.

Playing on All-Star [normal] there was a lot of neutral zone play with this one, along with several AI controlled checks that were great to see. And even a fair amount of turnovers. Both myself and the AI had some great scoring chances that provided some real "Wow" moments.

The game ended at the 19:50 mark of the second OT with me scoring on a garbage goal down deep, after a scramble for the loose puck. "Rewarding" is how the whole game felt...and it's ending felt really rewarding.

I suppose I should have more balance with my posts, rather than always so dang positive all the time. But I just having found much of anything I don't really like.

Edit: I did think of something I wish was in the game that isn't....getting thrown outta the face-off circle.

[JezFranco]

Does anyone feel like switching player is more defensive in it's mechanics than earlier.

In 10 there was occations we're I wanted to switch to one of the D's when the game turned in the offensive zone, but I kept switching to the two guys closest to the puck.
This was before (just a few months ago) I realised that if you hold down R2/RT you always switch to the D-man.

But now in the demo, it's like it's the other way around... When the play turns in the offensive zone and the CPU goes on attack I keep switching between my two D's instead of the guy (forward) closest to the puck, unless he's really close.
It is deffinately better, this is not a bashing... but with the new hustle feature I've felt many times that I wanna chase with a forward and let the D's position themself automatically.

Anyone else notice it, and is anyone aware of any "hidden" player switching features? (holding down R2/RT wasn't in the manual last year was it?).

[Splitter77]

Quote: Originally Posted by Vikes1

Edit: I did think of something I wish was in the game that isn't....getting thrown outta the face-off circle. [/font][/font]

that would be cool, which leads me to an NHL pet peeve of mine. Can the damn linesmen just drop the puck when both players get into the dot? I dont know when these delay dropping of the puck tactics started by these linesmen, but it really pisses me off. Back in the 80, early 90s the linesman got into the circle and just dropped the puck. I hate when they stand there and wait.