NHL 2K10 Feature Blowout (IGN)

[Scottdau]

Quote: Originally Posted by savoie2006

Well it's good to see some all around optimism on the 2K forums again. I know we still have to see some gameplay video from 2K,but this is easily gonna be the best year for hockey gamers I feel. I'm excited, I know that. Just hope I can afford both at the same time, because I don't wanna wait for either one.

Yeah I think I am going to have to buy 4 games this year. Or see which version I like better for both. The 360 or PS3. Decisions, decisions and decisions.

[Flyermania]

Quote: Originally Posted by Scottdau

The numbers look about the right size too. Man, I want some damn video.

I noticed that too....finally!

[Fiddy]

Quote: Originally Posted by RealmK

Yeah thats kinda a bitch to do without a media pc setup. I'd love to use that custom music pack for 09, but I'm way to lazy to burn all those tracks to a disk and manually edit everything in playlists. I've always been a big pbp guy, from way back when EA first added it to the PC version all those years ago.

yeah you are correct about that.

i may have attempted the nhl 09 pack without my media center, but i would have lost interest bc no way would i name all those files.

now 2k on the other hand always had an easy set up with custom tracks and wasnt all that bad. so we shall see with that.

but the media center makes life easy with custom tracks...

even if i didnt have that, i still would turn off the booth guys. just annoying and stale after a while. i wish there was an option to turn them off half way and have them still say the player names when the puck goes to them.

[Dalsanto0026]

I think the player models look pretty good. I'm looking forward hearing more info.

Nice to see a Devils player in there! Langenbrunner on one knee, nice!

[dorismary]

Quote: Originally Posted by baa7

I played 5 holes of golf on my nephew's Wii last summer and threw my shoulder out. Never again. It's me, comfy couch and 360 controller from now on.

Your a real sally Boy man up !
Roster share real prospects sounds nice can you explain more ? Ea has this also ?

Im not that impressed by the new players models they look about the same as 2 years ago before last year when they shrunk um and dont get me started on Bucket head goalies yuk plus create a goalie mask is a bad joke do it right or dont do it .
Knee shots very cool.
Ill hold out for a demo or videos but at least it seems they are building on from last year

[baa7]

Quote: Originally Posted by dorismary

Your a real sally Boy man up !

Look, I can't have children because of all the slapshots I took to the nuts while playing road hockey in -30 degree weather as a kid up here in Canada.

Okay, that's maybe not the best example to use while trying to defend my manhood, hmm...

[slickdtc]

Let me just start: nobody gives a flying **** about the Wii version. I'm sorry, that's just the plain truth. It can be the best selling system, but I bet that the number of NHL 2k9 sales for the Wii is lower then the other two console sales. Nobody is buying NHL 2k10 for the Wii if they want a real hockey game. They might as well arcade it out and sell it like that (like an 3 on 3 NHL game they had on XBL or whatever).

With that said, I guess I really don't give a crap about any of this information they give us. I want the game in my hands to play and that's the only way to judge it. The majority of this is out of game features that I don't care about mostly.

I will say that I'm happy to see stick lifts in. I think that's very important and it's about time. Let's hope the efficiency of them is realistic. And it'll be nice to see a bunch of new animations. And I really like the inclusion of the stumble shot; I haven't played the next gen NHL games extensively but I know on my XBOX version of NHL 2k7, getting pushed around and not being able to shoot because of it was extremely frustrating. Just because a guy bumps me doesn't mean I turn into a bumbling idiot who forgot about his motor skills; it's still an NHL player damn it. So that's nice to hear and it should really add to the flow of the game as it won't be so stop and start and frustrating.

The one 'feature' I think I will use is the ability to play franchise games online. This kind of thing was in Madden 06 called "Spawn Game" and it was pretty cool (though a bit clunky in how to use it). I don't play online too much, but now that I'm getting more into it, if I can find some good, sim-oriented players, it'll be a thrill to play a franchise game against a human opponent who plays the same style that I do but then also be able to play games at my leisure against the CPU and not be tied to the schedule of playing in an online league.

It sounds like they didn't half *** some of these features. You can play with multiple players on your own console and then go online with it too, so that's cool. And though I'm not a fan of focusing on the Wii, I'm glad they didn't half *** that effort either. Though I'm sure the majority of Wii NHL 2k players aren't hardcore into the game (if they were, they would probably have gotten a 360/PS3), it's nice that maybe someone who can't afford a PS3/360 gets to have a legitimate NHL experience.

[Eddie1967]

Quote: Originally Posted by Scottdau

I know that every developer say this, but I love it still the same! 2K: You know, it's interesting, I think there's definitely that sort of aspect but at the same time we also felt like we were kind of going back to the roots to try to bring back some of the realistic, sim-style hockey. We wanted to make the game something that's definitely accessible to people -- something you can sit down and play with your buddies, but at the same time I think it also plays a really good game of hockey this year. We've done a ton of work just trying to make the game look better, play better, feel better. We've done a ton of animations to improve the skating engine, to improve the goalies, to improve stick-handling and to improve the controls in general.

Love it. I had a good feeling VC would step up big time. Can't wait to play this game. The animations overall were pretty nice year but hearing that they improved the one's for skating is fantastic.