NHL 08 Montage!

[TheEASportsNHL]

Hey, Thought you guys might enjoy this...Please "Like" it on youtube!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsF65...el_video_title

[FBeaule04]

More things change, more things stay the same!

High percentage of goals scored on "dekes" against the goalies.
AI D like Niedermayer getting out of his skates by deke.
Cut scene looking exactly the same as NHL 11.

Thanks for that!

[etheberge]

I've owned every single EA NHL title since NHL Hockey on my 486DX PC, so of course I'll plunk down my money again this year. That being said, to see how little the presentation has changed in 4 years since '08 is just embarrassing. Let's look at that video:

- National anthems removed. Why? Just leave them in EA, if people don't like them they can just skip them by pushing a freaking button.

- Same stupid NHL, NHLPA and EA logos on the ice. If you can't be bothered to find corporations willing to let you advertise for them for free in your game, at least make up a couple and put "something" different on the ice. Ever heard of verisimilitude EA? Same goes for the boards. Speaking of which -->

- To this day they still haven't fixed the color matching of the board logos. (the white in the rectangle logo texture doesn't match the white on the boards, so it's painfully obvious that you're looking at a texture that's rendered on top of the boards, instead of an ad that's part of the board). This should take 2 minutes to fix in photoshop. Hell send me the files I'll do it for free.

- Of course the arenas and scoreboards are still the same, no need to elaborate on that.

-The play-by-play commentary is *identical*. For shame EA. For shame.

-Almost all the off-play animations are the same, for ex: the goalie going post to post before game start, goalie touching the posts with the stick at the end of the period, goal celebrations, etc.

-Goalie masks. Yes I understand that EA can't/won't get the licensing rights for the current designs. But last time I checked, EA has graphics guys on payroll right? How long would it take them to come up with a couple updated masks per team that look close enough to the real ones? A couple hours per team maybe? Is that too much to ask for in *four years*?


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On the plus side, those awful rock-em/sock-em robot style fights are gone. Granted the first person fights are bad but they don't suck the big one nearly as much as the old fights.

[plaidchuck]

Wow is it me or do the cyber faces look better than the last few games?

[Bolts_26]

First couple of seconds into the video and you shake your head seeing that intros were better in 08. Oh, but wait, having the Sharks come out of a shark head and the Oilers of a oil rig completely fixes it in NHL12... smh

[etheberge]

I personally would bet money that the Sharks and Oilers will be the only teams with the fancy new custom intros and everybody else will get shafted.

Heck there will probably still be color commentary about stuff that happened in the 08-09 season.

If I have to hear about Montreal having done a great job hosting the all-star game or Brian Burke being the new GM in TO for another year I'm gonna lose it :-)

[mf756193]

I think it's time for a change when you watch a video of NHL 08 and it could easily pass for NHL 11. I've bought this game the past 10 years now and I'm done. NHL 12 looks pretty much the same.

[Flyermania]

For me, this game was the peak of the current-gen releases. I played this game all the way until NHL 09 came out. Was it perfect? Nope. But the gameplay was the most solid that it has been in this series on the 360/PS3 systems -- as of late they add new items but ignore fixing other glaring issues. Perhaps the biggest plus was increasing the difficulty level actually (gasp) improved the CPU AI instead of juicing the CPU so that they score 5 goals on 15 shots (with most coming in the 3rd period).