NHL 12 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (360, PS3)

[Fiddy]

another pro i just noticed.. when you deke out to left or right, it seems as if you loose speed and dont coast full speed anymore.. if so, thats great.. will make some moves tougher to pull off unlike last year.. but with that said, its just with the NHL guys, who knows how the boosted players etc will act in those situations..

[Money99]

Quote: Originally Posted by mondoguitar

Hopefully the hitting is something they tweak with sliders, they did it last year. I think if more "slot goals" are scored legit, then people might feel the need to glitch less. If the only way you can score on the goalie is with a glitch move, guess what, people will do that. It was the goaltending that needed fixing the most. When you have a 5ft shot in the slot, it should go in half the time, not 1% of the time.

Very true. Most guys, even 3rd liners will bury that opportunity more than 50% of the time.
That's why making the D smarter and more effective is the answer.

Again, I only played 2 games, but I found the D harder to penetrate than last years.
But I also stink at these games.

[adayinthelife]

Quote: Originally Posted by skabatula

The comment about this being NHL 11.5 looks pretty accurate. Wouldn't be such a bad thing if NHL 11 wasn't NHL 10.5.

See that I disagree with, which is why me thinking that this game feels 11.5ish is not a good thing.

To me NHL 11 was leaps and bounds better than 10 (which was probably my least favourite in the series this gen), and the differences were quite noticeable.

This time around however, the "300 gameplay improvements" just feel like they're either a) too small to notice after only playing a couple games (this could be good) or b) total bull****.

[RealmK]

Sliders are locked? really? /facepalm

[Fiddy]

yeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!

they brought back being able to use any camera while being locked on the goalie.. woo!! i was so heated last year when you had to use either low or high.

for those that dont know, prior to playing a play now game, hit edit lineups, use the X button to position lock..

[MiNiDiTkA]

Another vid. I'll have some videos of HUT and BAP later on.

[Mike Smoove]

Quote: Originally Posted by F1Maniac2008

Can someone with gold upload the demo somewhere so silver users can test the demo too? It's killing me if I have go wait another week

Not sure if this is legally allowed, that is distributing it without consent. Just saying.

[adayinthelife]

Quote: Originally Posted by RealmK

Sliders are locked? really? /facepalm

Yep. It's a good thing because it means that there's a 99% chance you can make the retail game play better, but a bad thing because we'll have to wait to see if the sliders are effective in the least bit.