NHL 13 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (360, PS3)

[Big Jim]

Home teams still don't have an opportunity to see what line the road team has put out before deciding which line to put out themselves.

I want to see the 1st line come up and then put in my 3rd line. I want to get my 4th line in when the road team puts in their 3rd line,to get my top two lines a breather.

Everything else abou the demo is pure awesome, though.

[kerosene31]

Just played two quick games, all star difficulty, normal mode.

I love how sloppy the puck is now. You can actually play positional D and poke the puck away without having players pass or stickhandle through you! (at least so far). If you collapse on net there is little room to get pucks through, as it should be.

I like the skating, although in my short time it seemed a little too easy to outturn the CPU d-men? Not sure if it is more an AI issue or the skating. It seemed a little too easy to get past them. Usually though it seems that the difficulties are easier in the demo vs the final game, at least in my experience.

I do like how when you have to pay attention to which direction players are going when you pass the puck. A player going the wrong way may be open but may not be the right pass. A lot more realistic.

In my very brief experience this plays really, really well and I didn't have any real obvious complaints (well, some goofy goal celebration animations, but that could be a demo issue).

[The Amaizen Blue]

Why am I still getting awful framerate and choppyness? I had it in NHL 12 too. NHL 10 was perfectly fine, all my other games are fine, but these 2 games have been unplayable for me. What gives?

[Big Jim]

Quote: Originally Posted by The Amaizen Blue

Why am I still getting awful framerate and choppyness? I had it in NHL 12 too. NHL 10 was perfectly fine, all my other games are fine, but these 2 games have been unplayable for me. What gives?

No idea, but the demo was silky smooth on my 360.

[ocat]

CPU got a Goaltender Interference penalty when I was playing last night, not sure if I've seen that before.

Love the True Broadcast Cam but one main gripe I have with it is I like to play LD position lock but when the puck is around the net I can't see where I'm at.

[onac22]

First impressions from a HOCKEY PLAYER.

I love it. This game, so far, makes the player play like a player. Everything done has a consequence now, even on the dump in. While looking through everyone's first thoughts there was more than one person shouting about the dump-in.

The main grievance being filed is my d-man is slower than the forward on the dump in. Well in hockey terms the forward is coming into the zone full speed when the puck is dumped. The D-man who is covering said forward or the puck has to recognize the dump in and then transition......Heads just exploded, WTH is a transition is what I can hear being yelled.

The new skating engine allows the player to cross over his legs in turns which is called a cross over. When a player does a cross over he loses mobility because his legs are crossed. For the defense to go from backward to forward they have to pivot and crossover, a move any player can do but with different foot speed.

On a dump in on the old game one could just swing in a circle. On this one as is with the demo, now to transition your D-man needs space and time and this allows for the new pivot and retrieval of the dump in.

So bottom line back off your strategies and play the dump game if your D is getting beat the new game is pretty good. Oh and if stickhandling seems a bit different or maybe shooting try it with your feet planted its a whole other world.

Love this demo game should be good.

[The Amaizen Blue]

Quote: Originally Posted by Big Jim

No idea, but the demo was silky smooth on my 360.

Playing on PS3, but I doubt it really matters. Going to go troubleshoot.

[Vikes1]

Quote: Originally Posted by Big Jim

No idea, but the demo was silky smooth on my 360.

Yep...my 360 version is very smooth too.