Cheap NHL 15 Coins Online Sale - Be a Pro mode in NHL 15 fares even worse than other mode

NHL 15 looks, and plays, incredibly on new-gen. It’s just a shame there’s so much missing content, something that’s pissed off a lot of people. The stars seemed aligned to successfully usher the NHL franchise into the next generation thanks to its overhauled physics, living crowds and reactive, but still same-same, commentary, all of which makes this the most authentic ice hockey video game ever. But that missing content. Oh well. Maybe next year they’ll get it right. Be a Pro mode is where I sunk most of my time playing NHL 15, as I liken it to a sports-based RPG. Here you create your own character - you can even select the gender! - and upgrade their skills using experience gained by playing through the 2014-15 season. In-match you’ll receive feedback from the couch based on your performance, which can help you improve your overall rating as a player, which will further your chance of becoming a star player.

 

"[The AHL] numbers are rather significant; they're even somewhat significant comparing their numbers to the current NHL numbers," Holland said. "They've done a real flip of their numbers by going from five minutes to seven minutes and adding the 3-on-3 component." Dallas Stars general manager Jim Nill said he watched back-to-back AHL games decided in 3-on-3 overtime this season and came away impressed. Holland said the NHL's Hockey Operations Department has been keeping tabs on goals scored on plays that might have involved goalie interference. He said he's eager to see the findings of their ongoing analysis. "Referees are part of the game," Nill said. "We've got to help them out, but we understand the position they're in too. The game is going 100 miles per hour. Overall, they do a great job, so how much are we going to take the game out of their hands?"

 

“It’s something we’ll look at. We had to make some tough choices with the console transition. We looked at where people are playing their games and that helped guide some of our decisions. The reality is there wasn’t really a lot of people actually playing the mode and there wasn’t actually a massive amount of people getting even halfway through the first season. So that was one of the influencers in our decision. We’ll see though, I’ve heard lots of feedback from people that want to see it back in the series, so it’s something we’ll weigh against all the other features as we build the next game,” said Ramjagsingh. Players who have participated in EA’s early access program have also created a rather extensive list of other features missing from NHL 15. Some are potentially experience ruining, mainly the ability to simulate the time to your next shift in Be A Pro mode, edit players and that the game’s franchise mode draft is mostly conducted by the CPU.

 

Be a Pro fares even worse. This mode has never been a beaming example of how to do individual player careers in sports games, but it at least had a flow to it that felt like a decent representation of what being a player drafted into the NHL might be like. All of that is gone now. In NHL 15's Be a Pro, your created player is no longer allowed to exert any influence over what team drafts him. He is thrust onto a team, and immediately sticks onto that team. Again, because there is no minor league hockey gameplay, you never have any risk of being sent down to the minors. You're on your team until it's time to sign a new contract, which you then do, and keep doing until you get your player up to a high enough rating where he warrants longer-term deals. On the ice, you can no longer simulate through shifts you're not playing on, so instead you have to watch your team play through every segment of the game. Even more maddening, the game is insane when it comes to doling out ice time. Though there's no coach feedback during games (something that is also supposedly going to be added back in via patch), you will still find yourself periodically demoted or promoted to different lines while playing as a skater (goalies obviously don't have this issue). Instead of diminishing your ice time, the game just gives you the same amount of ice time (a lot of it) while pairing you with worse players. You can get bumped all the way down to the fourth line, and still end up with the most ice time of any player on your team. It's infuriating.

 

Above shows all the good and the bad in the newest installment of EA’s NHL games. In the past these games have won numerous awards for being simply awesome and the lead up to this was looking like it was going to top them all. In general its not a bad opening on the new gen consoles but next time they need to pull more out of the bag. Come on EA remember if its in the game its in the game.

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