NHL 13 E3 Hands-On Preview

[thevaliantx]

Quote: Originally Posted by GuyinPA75

All of this does sound great. But I keep telling myself: This is an EA Sports title. EA often promises and hypes and it never follows thru. Look at Madden the last 5 years. Being a huge hockey fan I would love to see this game be great and sports game of the year. But until the game is in my 360 tray and wowing me night to night, all of the "talk" and "hype" is just that. Still . . . could this be the year?

Funny. The last five years? EA's issues with Madden have been going on since the Nintendo / Super Nintendo days. I had A LOT of fun with Madden back in the day, and those versions (as they are today) were so exploitable.

Now, to NHL 13. I don't trust the game simply because of who its maker is, but something tells me that EA ought to have had an easier time making a hockey game than football.

[Roggie]

Quote: Originally Posted by RealmK

That depends on if one likes soccer. I'm American, I don't like soccer.

Good job trying to stereotype an entire country. I know plenty of Americans who like soccer, myself included.

Most people who have no bias from one sport to another will say FIFA is a better game than NHL.

[RealmK]

Quote: Originally Posted by Roggie

Good job trying to stereotype an entire country. I know plenty of Americans who like soccer, myself included. Most people who have no bias from one sport to another will say FIFA is a better game than NHL.

Should have put a smiley at the end as I was only half serious. But yeah, meh just not interested in Fifa even if it is the better of the two. I'll take my inferior NHL game every time.

[bwiggy33]

Semipro keep the impressions coming! This is basically exactly what I wanted to hear. All I need is player separation, better AI, and better goalies, upgraded BeAGM and I am totally set. It seems as though all of these have been worked extensively on.

Semipro what did you notice goaltending wise in your short time playing? I am huge on goalies (being that I am one). They glide way too fast on the ice but I'm pretty sure goalie movement didn't get worked on, so how are the new saves and limbs looking?

I tell ya what if these new implementations to the game pan out, imagine what we could have in the years to come. Maybe they can finally start adding the little details that we see every time we watch a game and just keep upgrading and working on perfecting the features already in the game instead of adding new unexciting features. By no means will the game be complete with NHL 13 but at least the meat of the game will be what we want and they can just keep touching up the AI, skating, etc. This could be quite a year for NHL.

[thevaliantx]

Quote: Originally Posted by Retropyro

Not a chance? Have you played the game? Seems kind of silly to dismiss it without even trying the game. MLB The Show 12 is pretty much only a tweaked version of the last few years. NBA 2K12 could even be considered a step back from 11. Not saying people should buy into the hype around NHL 13, dismissing it is no better.

Not that it's applicable to the conversation as it pertains to NHL 13, but I'm having trouble following your logic. You seem to think it's wrong for someone to dismiss a product that isn't even out, yet you have no problems dismissing a product (of a different sports genre) based on its history. What do you say to the folks who criticize last year's EA hockey game? That they haven't played it enough? Do you suggest that their criticism isn't valid because "at least wait until the NEXT version comes out before...."? At some point the timing of criticism becomes valid.

[Canadian Vampire]

Sounds good, but my main worry is that after a week or 2, all the glitchers cry about it being too hard. So EA will release a patch and turn it into NHL 12 all over again.

[ShadowBot]

Sorry savioe2006 but if we are talking about overrated sports games, then Fifa is number 1 on the list. Let me just say one thing, i am a die hard football(proper not american) fan and FIfa is a joke. Since the beginning of fifa, i can't even remember the last time they had good AI. Their Ai, is just crap filled with cheat scripts . Multiplayer is fun but it gets tiring scoring the same goals because the AI is just crap. TBH, the only thing fifa has progressed in is the animation technology. It still feels like the same ai they were using in the ps2 days and we all know that was bad. Enough about fifa.

Looking forward to NHL 13. I took a break last year because i was tired of the bad ai and lack of skating physics. I love to play BAGM offline and was just boring in NHL 11. Just so excited for 13, already have mine pre ordered and paid off fully.

[ComaFaction]

Quote: Originally Posted by thevaliantx

Not that it's applicable to the conversation as it pertains to NHL 13, but I'm having trouble following your logic. You seem to think it's wrong for someone to dismiss a product that isn't even out, yet you have no problems dismissing a product (of a different sports genre) based on its history. What do you say to the folks who criticize last year's EA hockey game? That they haven't played it enough? Do you suggest that their criticism isn't valid because "at least wait until the NEXT version comes out before...."? At some point the timing of criticism becomes valid.

But shouldn't that timing coming after...I don't know...actually playing the game?