NHL 13 Video - Gameplay, New Broadcast View Included

[Simple Mathematics]

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NHL 13 Gameplay Producer Ben Ross talks about many gameplay enhancements to the game. Please keep in mind this is all human vs. AI, at the default skill level.

[canucksss]

looks promising

[Cycloniac]

Quote: Originally Posted by Simple Mathematics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nt43...ature=youtu.be Looks good to me!

Things I noticed immediately:
-New team intros (maybe)

-New goal celebrations via dynamic cameras. It even looks like you can interact with teammates during celebrations, or atleast they celebrate with you this time instead of the generic "skate down the bench, fist pump teammates" animation.

-Less aggressive AI during powerplays (finally)

-More creativity via new skating engine

-Goalies are more dynamic, and are indeed affected by things like momentum and physics

-Realistic broadcast camera, which may even be customizable this year; I noticed two different broadcast camera views near the end of the video

I'm excited already ^^

[Cycloniac]

Looks like EA lost the rights to Madison Square Garden's name though, I see New York Arena -sigh-

I didn't see United Center either. I thought EA was supposedly getting alot of new arena licenses?

[Cycloniac]

Bonus: Sounds like Ea has a remixed version of Zombie Nation on their sound track this year.

[jyoung]

The AI defense still looks really poor and easily exploitable.

Hopefully, that's just a result of the game being played on the default difficulty, which is usually tuned to be very easy.

[MFarrer74]

Love the new broadcast view....looks as if the camera actually pans in/out.

Goalie stuff looks cool, like the back-skating stuff too.

All in all, decent improvements, but will only be able to decide once I test it out

[RateSports]

I came away very impressed.
My biggest issues with previous NHL iterations were :

1. Easy Goal Scoring (looks like goalie improvement is significant)
2. Skating Engine (completely fixed)
3. Puck Physics (puck looks a little looser to me, still not great tho)

I am very excited for this year's NHL game.