Cheap NHL 15 Coins Online Sale - For everything it does right on the ice, but NHL 15 missteps horribly off-ice

NHL 15’s online is very solid. EA Canada has had more than a few years to beef up their servers and everything seems to be running smoothly with only an occasional hiccup. Finding a match is as simple as pressing the first menu option in the online mode and waiting a few minutes for an opponent to appear. It works very seamlessly, something needed in order for the sports online experience to work. Almost everything else appears to be a copy-and-paste job from last year's source code, which means that the game's many on-ice issues cannot be saved by community rosters or by custom sliders.

 

Fortunately for the two, the pre-game situations are the only negative part of their addition to the NHL franchise. The NHL games have always had some solid color commentary so dropping the previous duo, Gary Thorne and Bill Clement, seemed like a bit of a surprise. Any worries that may have came out of that dropping have been rectified as Erick and Olczvk are very good at providing expert analysis of the game before their eyes. One of the hardest things to do when making a sports game is making sure the commentary does not get too repetitive (ask WWE 2K) and EA Canada’s writers made sure of that by providing Erick and Olczvk 35,000 lines to perform. While the pre-game setup leaves a bit to be desired, Erick and Olzvk’s performances are one of the best new additions to the NHL franchise.

 

With all of that said, EA Sports has certainly created a pretty game, to the point where multiple people in the IGN office told me that from afar, they thought I was watching a real hockey game for a moment. Naturally, NHL 15 still suffers from some awkward animations and occasional glitchiness, but I was impressed by the relatively lifelike player faces and the flow of their sweaters. There are lots of little touches, from a center approaching the circle while looking behind him and chattering with his defensemen, to goal celebrations like jumping into the glass in the corner as teammates crowd around. Slow-mo replays of awesome goals are heightened by the realistic craziness of the crowd behind the glass. The crowd’s a bit more awkward at full speed, though. The camera often cuts to identical fans executing identical animations, and I've never seen so many -talking away-team fans in real life as I saw in NHL 15. I'm pretty sure a Senators fan wouldn't make it out of Toronto alive if he was taunting the home crowd like that.

 

 

Hockey videogames can only be as fun as the types of goals that they allow, and unfortunately for NHL 15, the majority of shots that end up lighting the lamp usually leave you thinking, “How in the heck did that go in?” Netminders, can somehow routinely make sprawling stops on open-net opportunities, yet they frequently can't prevent slow-moving wristers from squeaking through their pads or sneaking past their glove. The same basic forehand-to-backhand and backhand-to-forehand dekes will still fool AI goalies at an insanely high rate, regardless of the goaltender's or the skater's attribute ratings. You can put up more points in NHL 15 if you skate through the same buggy “hot spots” and repeatedly launch toedrag wristers off the rush than you can by settling down in the zone, moving the puck around, and shooting from the middle of the ice with lots of traffic in front of the net.

 

We knew that the team over at EA Canada was hard at work on NHL 15, but we had no idea that their first venture into the next generation would be so ambitious. With features such as The Next-Gen Hockey Player, True Hockey Physics, Superstar Skill Stick and Authentic Arenas previously revealed, we were already impressed, but today they took things one step further. 

 

That sounds great to us, but as veterans of many sports games, this won't be the first time a developer has claimed to solve the wonky A.I. problem. If EA Canada does have one thing going for them though, it's the fact their track record with the franchise is phenomenal. 

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