NHL 15 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (Xbox One, PS4)

[Glenn33]

I haven't played a hockey game in about 5 years...so my opinion means nothing. That being said I thought it was a neat demo but one thing bothered me ALOT. The menu interface. My gosh. It was so sterile..so corporate. Like it belonged in a PowerPoint presentation at work and not for an exciting video game. It REALLY took me out the game.

[Keirik]

Cpu passing is still far too accurate and pin point perfect. Cpu one times happen at will with power regardless of how off balance, out of position, or whatever with too high of a success. Pinball EA hockey.

[Vikes1]

The more I've played, the more I'm enjoying the game. And seeing the kinda little details that make a nice difference for me over last gen. I'll be buying on the 9th.

[headzapp]

Here some pics, they look nice. I don't see blurriness or bad cut scene animation. The game seems fresh to me. I'm having fun with the demo so the retail will be that much better. Maybe it's because I skipped 14. I like the menu screen. To me they made it faster with holding buttons to opens menus inside menus. I looooove the quick rotate in the edit line screen in game. That was annoying before hitting a name and then scrolling down a long list, especially in online verses. Losing a game and wanting to change up lines while trying not to make the other player wait too long. Also the noise of the menu reminds me of what was it? I want to say nhl 98 with the bloop bloop bloop noise I like it.
I wish there was board play. Like fighting for the puck, and have a ref yelling "move the puck"

[MizzouRah]

Quote: Originally Posted by Vikes1

The more I've played, the more I'm enjoying the game. And seeing the kinda little details that make a nice difference for me over last gen. I'll be buying on the 9th.

I'm completely with you. I'm ready to see my Blues in action!

[Hockeynut99]

Quote: Originally Posted by MizzouRah

I'm completely with you. I'm ready to see my Blues in action!

Too bad no miller

[Smirkin Dirk]

Quote: Originally Posted by Keirik

Cpu passing is still far too accurate and pin point perfect. Cpu one times happen at will with power regardless of how off balance, out of position, or whatever with too high of a success. Pinball EA hockey.

Let's see how it plays when we can lower the sliders right down

[bwiggy33]

Quote: Originally Posted by ThaLiveKing

You can do it to CPU controlled teams?

In the demo I cannot tell if it changes or not. What I've tried doing is pausing the game at the beginning and switching sides then editing and then switching back to the team I wanted to use. With 2 minute periods it's extremely hard to tell if the strategies stick with that method. At any rate though, in the full game you should (if it's exactly like how it was in 13 and 14) be able to edit each and every teams strategies and line strategies.

In the demo try this. If you have two controllers move one to each side. Then adjust the strategies from there for both teams. Start the game when you're done. When you finally get into the game press the start button and move the controller of the team you don't want to use to the middle of the controller select so it's not on either team. It's possible the strategies will remain how you set them before starting the game. Personally I have not tried this though. I haven't got around to it. I'm just assuming you could assign a controller to both teams as if you were going to play 1 v 1. Whether the strategies stick is another question.

EDIT: I just attempted this and it works.