NHL 15 Gameplay Videos Show Off All-New Camera Angles

[Russo]

game looks terrible. When the presentation wears off, just like it does in Madden where you start to skip intros, you're left with a graphical facelift of an outdated NHL engine. What did they really fix gameplay wise? Players sill fall like flies and the rag doll effects are absolutely brutal.

[Smirkin Dirk]

Looks good to me.

Still feels a little end to end but they were showing highlights and we have no idea if they were sim settings.

I'd like to see a couple of things in the final copy.

1. More mistakes. Passing errors, pucks coming loose etc

2. For it to be challenge to get it in the zone. The neutral zone needs to be a thing

[Gagnon39]

Overall, very underwhelmed.

More loose pucks? Nope. Tape-to-tape, tick-tack-toe passing all around. I'm sure it was on a low level and there were no slider tweaks but anyone that says that the gameplay looked drastically different is fooling themselves. And the jerseys? Sheesh. My worst fear from every EA title is that whatever is new is completely overdone. And once again, it seems that it is.

Look at the size of the lettering on the shot of Corey Crawford after the Blues score. It's laughable. The commentary will get very, very old. Very quickly. In fact, I missed Bill Clement and Gary Thorn before I got through both videos.

On the bright side, the NBC presentation looks amazing.

[CaptainSuperman]

Maybe Doc's best lines are being saved for games that are like post season games? For the career modes and such.

And sliders will fix all the other stuff people are complaining about like passes and hitting. What's the big deal?

[VeryEvilAsh]

So sick of seeing the horrible no look play. The rebound at the 1:45 mark of the first video is typical EA NHL series. Iginla's rebound magically finds it's way to Duchene's stick without him even looking the right way. He's totally facing the other way for what ever reason. They will never get that right. Still seeing the weird puck behind the player that magically knows it's back there and somehow gets his stick back there to get it.

[Gagnon39]

Quote: Originally Posted by CaptainSuperman

Maybe Doc's best lines are being saved for games that are like post season games? For the career modes and such. And sliders will fix all the other stuff people are complaining about like passes and hitting. What's the big deal?

I love your optimism. But as a long-time sports gamer who's literally had every copy of EA's Sports NHL title since NHLPA 93 on the Sega Genesis, I'm going to say that what we saw in the video is what we're getting. Don't get me wrong, I'm still buying it day one, and I'm sure I'll play it quite a bit. But it's not shaping up to be what I was hoping for.

[shogunofharlem3]

Quote: Originally Posted by VeryEvilAsh

So sick of seeing the horrible no look play. The rebound at the 1:45 mark of the first video is typical EA NHL series. Iginla's rebound magically finds it's way to Duchene's stick without him even looking the right way. He's totally facing the other way for what ever reason. They will never get that right. Still seeing the weird puck behind the player that magically knows it's back there and somehow gets his stick back there to get it.

We just pretty much fixed a bit that in 14. Very aggravating situation. Noticed it made its way into 15. "Destination Puck" I call it. Guys aren't in the scoring position or great defensive position, the puck finds them. Not physics, attribute based. Theory, strong theory anyway.

Hopefully sliders will loosen that puck the way we just loosened it in 14.

[stevendah]

I'm upset that it's all Xbone footage. Must mean they feel the game looks best running with Xbone. It's making me rethink which next-gen console to get...