NHL 13 Hands-On Preview with Lots of Good Info (Game Informer)

[savoie2006]

Quote: Originally Posted by BlueNGold

It was already hard enough to play it in the first place.

Kind of, but as Fudge said I'm not gonna believe it completely until I have my hands on the game. I love hockey games too much to go almost four months without playing because of some hype.

[thedudedominick]

This game is always a day one buy for me, and this information has me excited once again.

I am curious to see what kind of changes were made to Be a Gm, EASHL, and if the online Be a GM is just like the offline one, or if it's a stripped down version like the Madden online franchise.

I will say this though, if this game can actually get the AI down right and make players and teams play uniquely, NHL 13 might hardly ever leave my xbox.

[CupCrazyManiac]

Quote: Originally Posted by savoie2006

Kind of, but as Fudge said I'm not gonna believe it completely until I have my hands on the game . I love hockey games too much to go almost four months without playing because of some hype.

i agree! same here, i'm not gonna believe it completely until I have my hands on the game!

[Gagnon39]

Everything sounds great but as I always do when a game makes such sweeping changes, I have many concerns.

My main concern is that it seems that everything is geared toward offense.

Being able to blow by defenders, goalies being more aggressive and making desperation saves more often and the puck bouncing off of limbs and deflecting in all give the impression that scoring will be up.

I just hope we still have 1-0, 2-1 games as well as the occasional 7-4 game.

We shall see.

[Richie12]

Little kid in me said "i want it now"
The long experienced adult in me said "yeah yeah heard that before, let see"

Who will win ? :-)

Hope as well they toned down CPU pass accuracy.

[balcobomber25]

Two things need to be overhauled for me to even consider buying this years version. One is the play of the goalies, I am sick of seeing multiple cheap goals go in against some of the best goalies in the world (i.e. Lundqvist, Thomas, Renne etc.). No matter how much you adjust the sliders the goalie play is still atrocious. The second is the GM mode needs a complete rebuild. NHL is suffering from the same problems as the Madden series: lack of competition has created lack of innovation.

[hollywood_cpm]

Quote: Originally Posted by balcobomber25

Two things need to be overhauled for me to even consider buying this years version. One is the play of the goalies, I am sick of seeing multiple cheap goals go in against some of the best goalies in the world (i.e. Lundqvist, Thomas, Renne etc.). No matter how much you adjust the sliders the goalie play is still atrocious. The second is the GM mode needs a complete rebuild. NHL is suffering from the same problems as the Madden series: lack of competition has created lack of innovation.

It's not just goalies man. It's the difference between superstar players and regular players that this game doesn't get. If I'm playing against the Pens for example everytime Geno and Sid are on the ice I should be warry of being scored upon. Which NEVER happens. Malkin and Crosby are no more a threat than Kennedy and Cooke. This badly needs to change.

[ChrisDanger]

I'm agreeing with the last few posts. Am I excited. Sure. Will I buy it? Yeah probably. Won't be day 1 though. NHL 12 was supposed to change the way I played the game. I guess it did in the fact I traded it in sooner than I have any other year.

EAs hype really means very little to me from now on.