Comments on: NHL 12 review roundup: Is it the best game yet or has the series reached a plateau?

By: wez99

wez99 — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:37:28 +0000

Best NHL game in years, the hitting is way more realistic then ever before, and the computers actually give you a challenge instead of being a body out on the ice, change the announcers and it’ll be even better, just don’t downgrade next years edition

By: trbowman

trbowman — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:15:00 +0000

The gameplay is great, but Be a GM mode is still AWFUL.

By: farvefromover

farvefromover — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:37:14 +0000

you can play in the Winter Classic with any team, and play with a handful of NHL legends. How is it not better than the previous year?

By: muttbolts

muttbolts — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:01:38 +0000

They fixed the mics.worth every penny.dido on the annoucers.but they need to fix offsides,nhl rule if a player is across the blue line but controls the puck over the blue line not offsides

By: sknut

sknut — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:32:40 +0000

To me EA does it right, it doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel just add to it, and for me its the subtle things that make it worth it. For instance the inbetween period screen with the rink and where your goals/shots/hits come from is a nice touch, even the 3 stars of the game screen has added info and its a clean look.

As far as the gameplay the physics engine seems to be realistic, I took Bouchard from the Wild and tried to check a guy on the boards and the guy skated by like he should as Bouchard is small. Also it seems more realistic when clearing the puck while on the PK, in past versions it was really hard where the O team would knock it down but now its more realistic.

I appreciate the subtle changes and I do think its the one sports game where its worth upgrading every year, I can’t say the same about Madden.

By: t9tookey

t9tookey — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:02:55 +0000

I’ve had it for a couple days, just starting to delve into it. It is great stuff and the addition of the Winter Classic and the hockey legends is worth the money.

Another hit by EA sports…now, if they could only update the game to include new announcers. Loved Gary Thorne and Bill Clement but I’m kinda tired of hearing their voices saying the same thing for 3 years now.

The only improvement I don’t like is when you sim a game, you pretty much still have to watch the close roll and the stats come in. You can speed it up, but I liked the way it was done in NHL11: it would update the scoring after each period and then w/5 minutes left in the game incase you wanted to intervene.