NHL 13 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (360, PS3)

[bwiggy33]

Quote: Originally Posted by SinisterAlex

Was the penalty slider broken in NHL 12...? I don't recall it being broken. I got numerous penalties with the penalty slider maxed, not sure what your guy's problems are... People who are whining about not seeing penalties in a 5 minute 3rd period demo... are nuts. What do you guys expect to see in 5 minutes of gameplay? 4 penalties aside? That's 8 minutes of penalties in 5 minutes... If this demo was like Madden, were we had a full game at our disposal, then maybe we would see more penalties, but you're not going to see a sim game in 5 minutes....

Well you must have been one lucky dude last year. I played 11 minute periods and nothing less my entire time with the game. The most penalties I ever saw in a game was 7 combined. Most of the time it was about an average of 3 or 4. Does that sound like a normal NHL game to you? It doesn't to me considering the NHL is basically a penalty fest now and whoever wins the ST battle normally wins the game. That didn't happen in 12.

The penalty slider was no doubt broken (or extremely ineffective) as was the pass reception slider. Guarantee about 80% of the people would say the same thing. It was probably one of the top 3 problems talked about with NHL 12.

[mikenoob]

PSN has updated, downloading the demo now. It sits at 1461MB

[RealmK]

Quote: Originally Posted by Money99

bwiggy33, do you recall who The Winger was? I'm wondering if it was a player with very poor defensive attributes (eg, Kovalchuk). Maybe that's why he did such a poor job of helping his dman out?

Now I've only played 4 or so 3rd periods but I haven't seen anything odd like that, on superstar I actually have a hard time getting it out of the zone vs the devils forecheck alot, and I'm noticing AI players pick up open players in the neutral zone and actually use their stick to bat passing attempts away.

The puck is looser, there's no question about it. I have no idea what the pass reception ease is set at for default superstar in the demo but the cpu does bobble passes and at times doesn't retain hard passes easy. So that alone there is a definite good sign for retail.

I've seen a penalty called every period except for one, 3 of them by the opposing cpu, one from me on a high stick. The penalty slider appears to be one click from max, so again another definite good sign.

Overall so far I'm impressed. the skating feels great, the cpu doesn't just try to set up one timers all day long they actually cycle and shoot a whole hell of a lot more than in years past.

And there's neutral zone pressure, although I still think at times when the AI isn't pressuring hard it is easy to get out of the zone. Perfect? No, but a major improvement all around over 12 imo based on very little time with the demo so far.

[kerosene31]

Quote: Originally Posted by SinisterAlex

Was the penalty slider broken in NHL 12...? I don't recall it being broken. I got numerous penalties with the penalty slider maxed, not sure what your guy's problems are...

I got penalties in 12 also and I didn't even touch the slider. Granted, they were a little low, but nothing I felt was unreasonable. Sometimes I would get a game with 10 minute periods where there would be zero penalties, but not a whole lot. I almost always get a few. Playing BAP with 20 minute periods I get lots of penalties (not created by my player of course). Was playing last night and even had two penalty shots and even a 4 minute penalty.

[RealmK]

One other quick thing before I forget, I see alot of shots going wide so far which is just great to see.

[arsenal123gunners]

It's up for PS3, search NHL 13 in PS Store

[Gagnon39]

Quote: Originally Posted by Steve_OS

So glad you can go against the goalie in Free Skate, 1 on 1. Would be cool if it had 2 on 1 breaks w/ a teammate vs. AI.

No doubt. This is what I'll be doing 90% of the time with the demo. Practice, practice, practice. I spent hours fine-tuning my skills with this in previous versions.

[shogunofharlem3]

I like it. Coming from 2k, I really wish EA would implemented the poke check to the right stick with full control like on 2k10, and mapped the check button to a button.

Just played 2 more games. Really liked it, although I find that my short passes end up no where near the player they are going to. I am sure that will end with practice.

So far so good.