NHL 2K10 Review

[savoie2006]

Quote: Originally Posted by leafs nation

I have to say I don't agree with this at all. These are not fan club boards. They are game discusion boards. I don't know why people started taking it personally when someone doesn't like the same video game they do. In a thread about 2k10 reviews I think it's constructive to come on here and say that you don't feel anything has changed in years. Then people doing research on the game can get a balanced view, not a group of people throwing praise at the game without discussion. I wish the boards were more like they used to be and you could just say what you thought of a game.

Yes, but when you come on the 2K forums or into a 2K or even EA thread for that matter and have NOTHING positive to add to the negative, it's borderline trolling. I would be willing to bet that the said poster hasn't even played the game and if he as, maybe only once or twice on default settings.

[stlstudios189]

I have been thinking of getting this game and now with the price dropping I will have to pick it up.

[StormJH1]

Quote: Originally Posted by stlstudios189

I have been thinking of getting this game and now with the price dropping I will have to pick it up.

It sounds like the price at Best Buy might have gone back to $39.99, but that can't last very long. The people buying it at Target for $12.48 or whatever were probably getting it on their red tag clearance sales. As a "professional Target shopper", I can tell you that's what they do when they're clearancing out games that they no longer want to carry in their display case. Target and other retailers will only stock like the Top 20 games or whatever. They'll also carry Platinum hits or other discounted titles like Mass Effect, Dead Space, etc. for a lower price, but probably not a game like 2k10 that didn't sell well.

Either Best Buy will drop this to $19 or $29 soon enough, or GameStop will do the same (or sell used copies for even cheaper).

[stlstudios189]

I picked it up for $34.99 used at Gamestop. The game looks great. Need to tweak a few things I won 7-4 and 8-3 with Montreal

[daflyboys]

Quote: Originally Posted by stlstudios189

I picked it up for $34.99 used at Gamestop. The game looks great. Need to tweak a few things I won 7-4 and 8-3 with Montreal

You could have bought it for about half the price on half.com (ironically).

[stlstudios189]

Quote: Originally Posted by daflyboys

You could have bought it for about half the price on half.com (ironically).

I had a gift card to Gamestop.

[stlstudios189]

this game is fun to me. NHL 10 is great but, I enjoy this better.

[tabulaRasa]

I enjoy the game, but I constantly find myself saying, I wish they did it like that or this, and almost great. And at times I am like, wow, that´s awesome. Being an old 2K fan, I really see the game as this :

If they fix the animations, especially the jerkiness of the animations and the transitions it would benefit the game alot. The jerkiness takes away from the game but can be fix.

Also the game is a bit hyper when you shoot and pass and deke, meaning they are superquick. Speed the default gamespeed up, and slow down the animations of shots and make the dekeing smoother and make it so that you don´t "float" when you deke.

Board pinning is way more realistic than EAs, an easier way to pin against the board would be good though. But way more realistic than EAs suction board pinning.

I really like the slappers, a bit too fast maybe?

Wristers have a great feel, but a bit fast animation.

Love the way players keep the puck in Zone along the blue. Great.

Shot aiming was really good and good amount of missed shots compared to other NHL2k games.

Sounds : Whistle sound gotta go! it´s too loud , and I would say take it away !

Slapshot sounds are too loud, rework.

Sound overall could use a more realistic approach.

Also Remove sounds from the replays and have all the sound from the replay. Rather have a PBP style recap over the replays from the period.

GFX:
Animations are key to 2Ks realism factor to me, I really like alot of the animations, like the battle for pucks, celebrations after goal. But without great transitions and with the jerkiness it´s just gets nullified. Fix it.

Fix the awful referee!!! It´s awful. Always fix the most seen assests first!

Love the areanas and intros, just polish!

Players seems a bit too small in body size , otherwise good.
Fix goalies though.

Player numbers still look small when zoomed out, probably because of LOD models. I would rather have more low poly players in high mesh and with LODs with better size on the jersey numbers.

Some more refined textures on the boards with the puck marks.

How about some non-banding overlays in the menues?
And what is it with 2K and contrast? Black should be black not, dark grey. All 2K games have this , in menues especially.

And finally, go sim all out for NHL2k11 guys!