NHL 10 Video: Board Play

[Ovie]

Regarding the AI in this video, I'm going to guess one of two things.

1) This build doesn't have the improved AI they've mentioned will be there.
2) This is on Rookie for the purpose of demoing their new features.

I'm not going to cry about AI til I actually play.

[JimmyDeicide]

I think Letang is like WTF is this guy doing at first as it was not really a situation were you would protect the puck im sure it was just to demonstrate the new move, so it took him a while to go pin him.
I doubt its going to be perfect but it is a very welcome addition.

[RealmK]

4 months away, the game isn't near finished yet. Prolly set on rookie for demo purposes. I think its far too early to get all worried yet. Did like hearing Litty say there's 100 new goalie animations though.

[ether]

150 new goalie animations? They were talking already about goalie improvements in the last vid. I may never score another goal as long as I play this game.

Oh and the kicking animation is cool but I wonder what happens if an opponent is standing too close and gets kicked in the junk? Match penalty?

[boritter]

As others have mentioned, the collision detection looked bad. It was insane (fake) how quickly Hossa was skating backwards after picking up the puck behind the net.

The NHL developers have earned the benefit of the doubt in my book so I'm going to chalk those two things up to this being an early build of the game.

Can't wait for launch day!

[bigwill33]

Still catching my breath from that game tonight!

Anyway, thanks for the vid, good to see. Liked the Stanley Cup Logo on the ice. Hopefully they get the patches on the jerseys too, pretty please. Steal Madden's technology for putting it on the uniforms.

Should be fun to work the boards and cycle with multi player and teammates online.

[Vikes1]

I'm really looking forward to NHL '10' too.

[Qb]

Quote: Originally Posted by armi5718

Also, did anyone else notice the ESPN score bar at the top left of the screen? Yessssirrrrr!

I could only see half of it. While it did have an ESPN-ish look to it, I don't think we should jump to conclusions. And yes, I know 'ESPN' was on the dry-erase board in Littman's first video...

Quote: Originally Posted by boucher

Do you think anyone is going to use this online?? Nice to see the writing in the ice for the finals

I'm not sure how much it will be used in OTP/EASHL play initially, but if it's effective, people will eventually use it, possibly even abuse it. If done well, I think it could be a great addition for versus play with two guys who play the right way.

The "Stanley Cup Playoffs" logo caught my eye as well. It's a small addition in the big picture, but welcome and overdue.