NHL 14 Available Now - Post Your Impressions Here

[jyoung]

Looks like Chris Pronger is still the starting left defenseman for Philly.

[BigMacAttack22]

As someone who hated (and I mean HATED, as in I despised everything about the game and the producers for a time) the gameplay of NHL 13, I am truly impressed with NHL 14. I came in with the lowest of expectations, being unimpressed with the demo (so much so that I deleted it within minutes), and in my opinion the game really delivers. I'm quickly discovering that Hardcore Sim is the only way to go and that I'll have to adjust some stuff but it is nowhere near as "broken" as I felt it was last season and I could easily join an online league and be happy with the default settings anyway. So far, again in my opinion, it's a positive grade.

[Suntan Superman]

Sadly it seems (so far at least, 5 games in so I'm not writing it off just yet) but the teammate AI in Live the life still isn't the greatest. If i lug the puck in the zone on a wing(I'm a centre) BOTH wingers seem to follow right behind me, leaving me with nothing to do except turnover the puck ~_~.

As someone eluded to in their review, the "Interviews" feel really random, and not at all cohesive.

[SinisterAlex]

Faceoff spam is still in online...... even though EA said they fixed it.

[jyoung]

So Ilya Kovalchuk and Chris Pronger are both starting for the Red team in the All Star game.

[DarkFudge]

There seems to be some confusion as to the inclusion this year of Multi Player GM Franchise Mode......and/or the ability to PLAY random scheduled games for any team in your franchise.

Some say its still missing and I read a few places that they've included one of these this year so I am still quite confused

[brandon27]

So, to me the game feels, and looks exactly the same for the most part, until a fight breaks out anyways.

That being said, i LOVE the new fighting engine.

The commentary is still the same old same old.

It still looks really nice.

Rosters... wtf EA? Im the wings... No alfredsson, no Weiss... Really not sure whats up here. I'll have to check and see if there's a roster to download after i finish this game im in the middle of here.

Faceoffs... man oh man... I can't win one if my life depended on it and i never used to have a problem. Anyone got any tips?

[Suntan Superman]

I can't win a faceoff either. Also there is a roster update, I was happy as I was about manually update.