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Virtually all were realistic and competitive, and a good half-dozen games stand out as classics that have taken their place in my mental Hall of Gaming Memories.
There was a great one against the Dallas Stars. The game was gritty and defensive and end-to-end in turns. It was also marked with a great three-point passing play between Doug Gilmour, Joe Thornton, and Steve Thomas that resulted in one of the prettiest goals I've ever notched. Then there was our great comeback against Calgary. The Flames took a lead into the third, but Eric Lindros and Gary Roberts deflected point shots to tie the game.
Lindros then scored his second off a nice feed from Derek Morris trade me, will ya? And I can't forget the blowlout of the Habs in Montreal where Ed Jovanovski laid seven big hits on the wimps wearing the blu, blanc, et rouge.
If the real Maple Leafs perform as well as my fake ones this season, I'll be very happy next spring. Yet NHL is not perfect. As enjoyable as the end product is, there are some aspects of gameplay that just can't be adjusted satisfactorily with the sliders.
Perhaps the most annoying issue regards line changes. Players on the "wrong" side of the ice from their bench often get trapped out there, refusing to head off unless the puck is fully iced. This isn't that noticeable if you leave Fatigue set at the default 3, but if you bump this up to 4 so that teams can't give their top two lines upwards of 30 minutes a game, these caught players run out of gas in an obvious fashion, very quickly.
I eventually gave in and turned Fatigue back to 3. Defensive positioning is still pretty rough and ready. Some of the best defensemen in the league, with Defensive Awareness ratings well into the 80s, will often scramble around.
They'll go to the same man, part like the Red Sea allowing forwards to go straight up the middle, or simply stand around at the blueline. This latter issue is the biggest problem with defensemen in the game. Computer forwards will blitz right by you if you're not very careful when choosing to take over control of the blueliner or notsometimes it's best to leave well enough alone.
At the other end of the ice, the computer-controlled defensemen will often back away from larger forwards. Eric Lindros, for example, can usually put his head down and barge right to the crease, with the obliging defender backing up all the while.
Soft computer goals are also frustrating. Even with Goalie Boost maxxed out, an average of one or two will float by your netminder every game or two.
This could be marked down to goalie fatigue, but even then it doesn't make sense because good starting goalies aren't this inconsistent even when they play five or six games in a row. Fighting is flat-out terrible. Two combatants simply square off and begin punching each other in the face as quickly as possible.
Hit the necessary button fast enough and you'll be rewarded with a win and a momentum meter boost. This can be pretty tough, however, as the computer pugilists throw 'em pretty quickly. Also, all players who will fight are rated fairly similarly in terms of how many punches they can take. Seeing Dave Manson get schooled by Kirk Muller despite landing five or six solid rights to the former Hab captain's beak was almost more than I could take. The computer won't win any awards for the General Manager skills it demonstrates in season play.
While it stops well short of giving players away, some values don't reflect reality. Youth and potential mean very little to the AI. It rates current ability and holes that need to be filled before making a deal; nothing else. At the same time, nobody had any interest in super-prospect Nik Antropov, who'd certainly be worth more in the real world open market than any of the three players that I did move. You can't use these holes to poach true stars, though.
Of course, if you're patient and dedicated to running a career for the full ten years, the best way to go would be to pile up youngsters for next to nothing. That should get you a Cup contender within three seasons. In the meantime, though, anyone want a big kid from Kazakhstan?
A far more serious problem is the game's current lack of stability. I've experienced a number of hard locks and drops to the desktop in menu screens and between periods. Irritating, but not unexpected in this day and age. But I also had a season file corrupted after 26 games. The program locked up on the main season screen after finishing a game with Pittsburgh and attempting to simulate the following match-up with the boring Capitals.
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And this year you really can, thanks to an all-new fighting engine that emphasizes grappling and blocking. League and dynasty play have been greatly improved. Around 40 teams have been added representing the European elite leagues in Sweden, Finland, and Germany, freshening things up for those a little tired of the NHL game. Dynasty mode has received a total facelift on par with that given the franchise mode in Madden NFL , so running an NHL franchise has never been depicted so completely.
It isn't perfect, largely due to players demanding absurdly high salaries at times, a preponderance of goofy trade offers from the computer, and a year cap per career. But it's a lot better than anything that this series has presented before.
EA Sports never lets you forget that this is a big-budget production. Graphics are phenomenal in every way, though particular attention has to be paid to the outstanding animations. Skaters now look like they're actually pumping their legs, not whirring on an invisible treadmill.
Hits are powerful and impressive without going over the top into wrestling land. Goalies are acrobatic and turtle-like by turns. The only somewhat sore point is the interface, which remains a little too console for the PC edition and a little too PC for the console editions. Audio quality has been boosted with a lot of new lines for play-by-play man Jim Hughson and a greater sense of situational awareness. His new color commentator, former Oilers sniper Craig Simpson, also does a good job of weighing in with some key observations, and is a huge improvement over the stand-up comedy stylings of his predecessor, Don Taylor.
Last but not least, multiplayer modes haven't been forgotten - unless you're stuck on Xbox or GameCube, that is. PC and PS2 owners are pretty well set up with a variety of options that run the gamut from quick single-game matchups to fullblown tournaments.
EA is running the same subscription angle with the EA Sports Online service for PC as it did last year, although you receive a card worth an entire season of free online play in each box. So online play with the official EA servers is essentially free of charge. You can still, of course, dodge the servers altogether on PC and link up directly with your friends and enemies. Few new beginnings in games go as right as this one for NHL EA Sports made a brilliant decision to shake up the franchise last year and turn it over to a new design team with no vested interest in the mistakes of the past few seasons.
This is almost certainly the best release in the history of the NHL series and one of the most authentic action-oriented sports games currently on the market. Screenshots from MobyGames.
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