Trying to carry the puck in traffic created scoring chances for the other team.īut here's how very detailed this game gets. Passing the puck created scoring chances. Sure, I probably should have chosen playmaker as my player type, but I look more like a power forward in real life. I was a power forward and playing center. In playing the Beta, I was in the EASHL mode. "Players away from the puck are really important as well." He reiterated that defensive positioning is important and being responsible for your area of the ice. "This year we really focused on moving the puck around and playing a team-based game," Ross said. And they want you to pass the puck instead of skating the length of the ice. It's about as realistic as video game hockey gets. So you can't just switch to the guy closest the puck on defense, you have to know what your responsibilities are with your position. And you each play just one on-ice player at one position. If you haven't played or you have the version of the game without that mode (it was brought back last year after a brief hiatus), it's the game mode where you play online and make a team of friends. And Ross said that was on purpose, especially in the EASHL mode for the game. It's damn near impossible to carry the puck in traffic unscathed. I mention poke checks because that was the No. They learn that from players playing the Beta of the game. For instance, if poke checks are too powerful, too effective, then they might dial that back.
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Ross told me if they hear too much about a facet of the game, it could be tweaked by release in an update when you play the game the first time.
The Beta allows real players to test the servers, the game play and some of the features of the game. EA Sports knows that when this game comes out in a little more than a month, millions of players will be jumping in feet first. Not this version, brother.īefore talking about the Beta, let's talk about what that means. Now if you've played video game hockey long enough, you know the best players historically have been the ones who can gather the puck in their own end, skate circles around the pylons on defense and make a move to beat the goalie one-on-one. The game even makes Jori Lehtera look good. "It's been really big for us with game balance and more authenticity with how the game is played in real life." Now they can throw a shoulder up, which cuts down on short-side goals. In previous versions of the game, making the save was totally up to agility. "We have put a focus on authentic goaltenders - how they play and the visuals," said Ben Ross, NHL 17 Gameplay producer. EA Sports decided to capture the stance of every goaltender and put them in the game. Well goalies have always got the secondary treatment, basically looking all alike in video games. And it's the little things.įor instance, you can sometimes tell a goalie based on his stance in the net, like how Henrik Lundqvist holds his ass in the air with his face out front or how Ben Bishop looks like you could drive a VW Bug through his pads before he closes it down.
NHL 17 is silky smooth, polished and just damn pretty. Even if you didn't play the Stone Age version of the game in the early 1990s, you can appreciate how this newest version is downright sexy. Tarasenko fights for position in front of the net.įirst, the game is beautiful. Or they think Game Time is a bastion of journalism. That might be why we were asked if we wanted to try the Beta version of the game and call in to a roundtable discussion with one of the makers of the game. You may have heard that Vladimir Tarasenko is on the cover of the game. Next month, EA Sports' NHL 17 will hit store shelves and be available for download.
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And the Sega Genesis makes a good doorstop compared to what the PS4 and Xbox One can now do. Dobson is co-ed (and coincidentally smells a lot better), Northeast is now Truman State. It was on the Sega Genesis in a second floor dorm room in all male Dobson Hall on the campus of Northeast Missouri State University.
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