NHL 17 Gameplay Series Blog - Control The Ice

[RaychelSnr]

EA Sports sent us this NHL 17 gameplay blog from NHL 17 Producer, Ben Ross, as he highlights some of the new additions to gameplay this year. Some more details can be read on the official blog.

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The EA SPORTS NHL team is proud to present the first look at gameplay in NHL 17. Own Every Zone with more end-to-end control with authentic goalies featuring positional awareness and reactionary save intelligence, all-new Net Battles for offensive and defensive zone play, and dozens of thrilling new goal celebrations.

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[Dalsanto0026]

Loving the sound of these gameplay enhancements. Looking forward to seeing more gameplay.

[snc237]

Some things corrected that annoyed me last year so hopefully that A.I. Is improve in many situations, however the A.I. Needs a revamp completely apposed to revisions and tweaks.

[asu666]

I'm planning on sinking a lot of time into NHL 17.

[brandon27]

In writing, a good list of improvements. Hopefully execution is good. The way things started with the news cycle on this one, I was pretty disappointed. The last few updates from Ea on this have been good though. Finally some real details, and some positive news.

[bad_philanthropy]

Very thorough list of improvements. Happy to see the devs are very much aware of the glaring issues with gameplay (not regarding arcade/sim tunings).

Seeing things like the cpu now being subject to pass charging and all sorts of other user mechanics shows how far behind development of the game has been since the move to this gen. I'll give credit to the small and under-resourced dev team doing their best here.

[Al_Tito13]

To me, gameplay is by far the most important thing and I have to say that NHL 17 looks really promising. From the day it was said that a better gameplay customization was in the game with 0-100 sliders, I was already pumped. After that, we got news about better stick collisions detection and a lot of new sliders available, including ones to make the puck completely loose if we wanted to. And now, this list of improvements which were needed for the most part.

Like I said, so far, it looks like NHL 17 will be great, and I can't wait to get my hands on the game, just hope I won't be disappointed.

[Diehardfan]

Sounds real promising but I don't trust them anymore. Everything looks and sounds great in the pre-release months but always seems to change when the game is in our hands.

I'll believe this stuff...when I see it first hand.