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

[ComaFaction]

Has anyone seen injuries yet or are they turned off?

[SinisterAlex]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gagnon39

I refuse to turn it off of superstar until I score one goal. Just 1. Has anyone had an success on this difficulty setting? I can't seem to get any open ice to save my life. I played almost 2 seasons on NHL 10 on superstar (won the Cup and President's Trophy). I'm a little unsure what level I'll be playing on.

I managed to score 5. Two from the point (screened) one rebound goal, and two one timers (by the circles, top shelf). I agree though, once you see space, it's gone within seconds. Now if we could only change the sliders...

[Lordofthething]

My impressions:

Good:

- authentic puck size
- physics on hitting is so much better
- broken, dropped sticks is just too cool
- cpu is much more aggressive on the attack
- been waiting a long time for face off strategy, and it's been done great
- nice to have more dekes
- am I crazy or is hustle done automatically? I'll be controlling my player and he's just going all out and I'm not clicking L3...

Not so good:

- scored a weird goal in OT where I hard slapped the puck into the offensive zone with Pronger and it somehow went off the back boards and into the net...it surprised me and happened too fast for me to see how it actually went in, too bad instant replays aren't accessible. Probably just an anomaly.

- was hoping the fighting engine would of been tweaked a little...but that's whatever

- line change options come up slower than last year

- hate manual passing but sliders will fix that

[RealmK]

Quote: Originally Posted by ComaFaction

Has anyone seen injuries yet or are they turned off?

Saw one, same situation as last year, guy takes off down the tunnel.

[SinisterAlex]

Quote: Originally Posted by ComaFaction

Has anyone seen injuries yet or are they turned off?

I injured one guy off of a slapper. The puck hit his leg, he went flying into air then fell to the ice. Play was stopped shortly after.

[Lordofthething]

Quote: Originally Posted by MiNiDiTkA

Anyone know if you can change the game speed? I looked in the settings but didn't see an option.

No, it's there but it's locked

[HipsterSudz]

I put up my NHL 11 demo impressions on my website:

http://www.puckgamer.com/nhl-11-demo-impressions/

I like it. It feels like a significant upgrade over NHL 10.

It does seem WAY to early to be playing hockey though. (it was 100 here today!)

[ComaFaction]

Quote: Originally Posted by AtomicLegend

I injured one guy off of a slapper. The puck hit his leg, he went flying into air then fell to the ice. Play was stopped shortly after.

Thanks guys - that's reassuring. I've bombed slappers into guys, pounded guys into the boards and done anything possible to injure someone, but with no luck!