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NHL 15: Breaking Down the Initial Information

11:40 AM - May 7, 2014 by RaychelSnr

EA has finally blown the lid (well, slightly loosened the lid is more accurate) off of NHL 15, the first hockey game on the new generation of hardware. They didn't exactly show much, but they sure did a lot of telling. You can see the teaser trailer here, and the game page outlining all of the details is here. There's also a cover vote going on, and you can make your wishes known on this page. GameInformer also wrote up a big piece on the game, so I'd suggest checking that out, too, as I'll be referencing it here.

As I figured, EA played it fairly coy in terms of showing their cards (even though that trailer sparks some good emotion), but they did do a lot of hype-building, specifically as relates to gameplay features and presentation. There are a lot interesting details in what they said, so let's take a look.

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# 21 Wiggy @ 05/09/14 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by PPerfect_CJ


	The one thing that concerns me, there was no mention of cleaning up the game menus. They are way too slow! Going back and forth between screens is BRUTAL. And when you're first putting in custom tracks, it takes the majority of a night.

I totally agree. The menus have to be overhauled. I suspect they will be.

# 22 spidertour02 @ 05/09/14 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by PPerfect_CJ


	The one thing that concerns me, there was no mention of cleaning up the game menus. They are way too slow! Going back and forth between screens is BRUTAL. And when you're first putting in custom tracks, it takes the majority of a night.

I don't think they mentioned it because it's a guaranteed change. EA has been rebranding all of their sports titles to achieve more uniformity, remember? NHL will probably be no different -- tile-based menus, "player staring into your soul in awkward fashion" cover, etc.

# 23 Dolphins88 @ 05/10/14 01:07 PM

Yes I totally agree they have to make each team play their unique style.. Eg bruins use size for hitting and speed, forecheck.. Montreal uses speed, chicago uses skill, speed.. LA uses size and speed game, etc.. You should have to change strategy for each team.. For instance shadowing top players like Kane , kopitar, Toews, Crosby , etc.. And each goalie should have unique style and weaknesses.. Quick, price, Rask and Crawford should be stand outs

# 24 Majingir @ 05/11/14 12:59 PM

I really hope they've fixed sliders, because there's at least several sliders in these games which do next to nothing(and some might even be reversed,where putting it on max does what the minimum option was supposed to do).

While there are some problems in the game, a number of them could actually just be fixed by slider changes, but that's not possible if the sliders are broken. They need to have a 2K style sliders where it ranges from 0-100 and there's dozens of different sliders for both CPU and User

# 25 jengo @ 05/11/14 07:36 PM

I hope they fix the overall play of the a.i. Far too many things missing in the game. As it is now it's like a game of pond hockey. A.I needs to clear the puck out of there zone when under pressure instead of always making a perfect pass to center ice. More attack time in the o-zone, set up on the pp instead of making 60 passes in a 5 second span. Close the user off along the boards in the neutral zone and force a dump in. And fix the penalties. I swear I get 1 pp every 2 games on NHL 2014. I don't know how many times a game the a.i gets away with slashing, interference, and a whole slew of other infractions.

# 26 13whitebread @ 05/15/14 12:18 AM

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Originally Posted by jengo


	I hope they fix the overall play of the a.i. Far too many things missing in the game. As it is now it's like a game of pond hockey. A.I needs to clear the puck out of there zone when under pressure instead of always making a perfect pass to center ice. More attack time in the o-zone, set up on the pp instead of making 60 passes in a 5 second span. Close the user off along the boards in the neutral zone and force a dump in. And fix the penalties. I swear I get 1 pp every 2 games on NHL 2014. I don't know how many times a game the a.i gets away with slashing, interference, and a whole slew of other infractions.

I agree penalties have been broken since 2007

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