NHL 13 Video - Gameplay, New Broadcast View Included

[THE YAMA]

I haven't purchased an NHL game since '06, I may consider picking this one up when it's released.

[MizzouRah]

Quote: Originally Posted by animal829

Why can't we have both, great gameplay and upgrades in prensentation. They have guys who work in different departments of the game so I don't see how upgrading presentation would effect the gameplay or vice versa.

I agree.. change it up for once! I'm sick of those intros, they all look the same and it gets boring real quick. I'm all for game play, but play NBA 2k and see what real presentation looks like!!!

[RealmK]

Looking good even on default settings. It'll be interesting to see how it plays on superstar with all the pass assists bumped down. Love the new skating, love the the AI stands up in the neutral zone/defensive blue line with the proper backcheck selected. Really like how the goalies now can react after being out of position.

All in all looks very promising.

[DerekOfferman]

Super Goalies, I have a feeling that there will be no defense in this game, except the Goalies.

[Chad0034]

I just want to get my hands on this. Hopefully the defense isn't that easy to get around via the backwards skate. I know there were some bugs with backwards skating making the AI defense easy in the past, hopefully it isn't like that for this game.

But from that video it looks like it might be.

[Vikes1]

Quote: Originally Posted by RealmK

Looking good even on default settings. It'll be interesting to see how it plays on superstar with all the pass assists bumped down. Love the new skating, love the the AI stands up in the neutral zone/defensive blue line with the proper backcheck selected. Really like how the goalies now can react after being out of position. All in all looks very promising.

Agree RealmK.

Thankfully nearing the end of the video it showed a strategy that made it more difficult to carry the puck through the zones. I was a bit worried at the beginning of the vid.

And like you mentioned RealmK....with the higher game levels, and hopefully truly [all] effective sliders, NHL '13' looks to be quite promising.

[ps3veron]

Looks fantastic. I really need to work at 12 to get better. Pretty desperate to be a good hockey gamer!

[Therion7]

Quote: Originally Posted by Vikes1

Agree RealmK. Thankfully nearing the end of the video it showed a strategy that made it more difficult to carry the puck through the zones. I was a bit worried at the beginning of the vid. And like you mentioned RealmK....with the higher game levels, and hopefully truly [all] effective sliders, NHL '13' looks to be quite promising.

Indeed Vikes, penalty sliders *have* to be effective this year. It was as much a game killer in 12 as the stability issues.

As a BeAGM or season player, it's good that if we want to we can stick with the out of the box gameplay, as that's usually the best provided no silly errors have crept in. No having to worry about jersey updates for the Jets and that update including tweaks and changes to pacify the online crowd.

Regarding the overkill of Reebok adds in the hoardings particularly at the Leafs barn, I'd imagine some of those will be replaced by promotional film or dvd ads if you're connected to the EA servers so it may not look so monotonous.