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Originally Posted by Typhoid

HORRIBLE GAME!!!!!


Plain and utterly horrible!!!!!

lol, well your not a simmer man, i already knew you prefer the arcade style before this came out.

The game is so easy to score on. Too easy. Way too easy.

The first game i played was on "All-Star" and i was Vancouver agianst Toronto in a 5 minute game, and i won 17-1. On an EA game i have never scored that high.

yea. sega bumped the goalies down a bit on lower levels this time. people complained about the brick walls they were on 2k4, simple settings fix that tho.
play me online sometime my goals against was a solid 1.0 untill my goalie had an off night against a better player. letup 6, so i pulled him and left and empty net for the last 10min of the game cuz i was pissed. so i lost that one 10-1
didnt think about my goals against when i did it. wish i hadnt. lol.

There is one thing you can do that ensures a goal in this lame-wad of a game.

Skate in close to the goalie on one side, then at the last second cut to the other side and shoot. He wont stop it.

It works every time when i do it. Every god damn time.

not exactly, a few adjustments and you get that down quite a bit. and against you, theres always things you can do yourself to stop it. As i said, try it online with me.

The 'S-Move' (what your refering to) has been a problem in any hockey game for a long long time. the goalies are designed to go down when you get that close, so its a hard one to stop. EA's will do it too, they always have, i was pulling that off back in NHL94. Plus this years EA NHL has the new wrap around goal which is almost a gimmie each time. lol

The graphics are laughable.

When players skate it looks like they are 80 because they hunch over so much.

The game looks like it was designed for PSone.

PS2 hockey game my friend. EA's dont look much better while playing. Barly any do even PC, because your zoomed out so much. PC looks better only cuz of the fact you can up the resolution so much that its very sharp from far away.

I like the ommentary however, but only in the pre-game when they are talking about the teams and goalies and stuff.

The only thing so far that i like about this game is the fact it was $35.

Your opinions on the game, for those of you that have it.

Any rebuttles?

Come on, give me a reason to not give this game to good will.

yea, commentary is good. was last year too. im sure its different for people that dont listen to espn to know the voices, but once you get used to em i prefer them much.

The game has its better poitns over last year. and its slightly worse points.

As i said tho, (i knew you'd do it) give it a SOLID chance and play a while and learn it before dismiss it so quickly. Because while i cant say over all its better or worse then 2k4, (have to play much more to see) its certainly better then the past 3 years of EA's. from the reviews NHL 2005 is getting, its going to be much much better then that. But im holding off till i play that one.