NHL 09 Beta Screenshots: Sliders, Rosters, Ratings

[blinkfan77]

Quote: Originally Posted by Splitter77

how can there be a hook effectiveness slider if there is no hook button?

There is. It's Y/Triangle.

[Ridgeberg]

It's also important to remember that the NHL team has previously said that Overall ratings are not really a good judge of actual player capability. That is probably why they weren't included in the IGN spreadsheets.

Chelios (for example) probably gets a rating boost because he has a high leadership rating (just a guess, but he is old!). I distinctly remember David Littman using Phaneuf as an example last year. He didn't have the highest rating (overall) but had one of the highest ratings for checking and slapshot. He was still a beast to use even though his rating didn't rank him in the top (fill in the blank) d-men in the league.

What was annoying though, is whenever you had the CPU create lines, it based it completely off of the overall ranking even though Littman and crew were quick to state that gamers should look at all of a players ratings when choosing which line he will be on, not just overall.

[StormJH1]

NHL's ratings have been comical for pretty much the past decade. Aside from the fact that Overall ratings don't necessarily reflect how well the player will perform in the game (depending on which attributes are inflating the OVR), it's just kind of a reality of the game that we have to deal with. They can be edited by users, though it would be much easier if EA didn't have their whole profile thing so we could create and swap new rosters on this site, or through EA locker or something.

[NYRangers31]

lol @ Marek Malik being an 81 and being on the Rangers

[tyler289]

EA NHL butchers more ratings than Madden.

Caps center Dave Steckel was top 10 in the NHL in faceoffs last year and in this game he's a 50.

Brooks Laich scored 20 goals and was huge in our run, yet somehow he is worse than Keith Aucoin, an AHL nobody.

[Splitter77]

Quote: Originally Posted by blinkfan77

There is. It's Y/Triangle.

thats the slash/fight button.
there is no hook button.
on ps3 triangle is slash/fight
circle is line change
square is line change and x is stick lift

[sask3m]

on the controller screen for ps3 it says triangle is hook/fight, maybe they made a mistake though.

[Splitter77]

Quote: Originally Posted by sask3m

on the controller screen for ps3 it says triangle is hook/fight, maybe they made a mistake though.

no- Im probably wrong. It probably is hook/fight.
I just couldve sworn the player made the slashing animation from 08 when you press triangle in the demo.