Martin Brodeur's Authentic Mask is in NHL 13 and Why Some Others Won't Be

[brandon27]

Awesome! Is there a list anywhere of who else's mask they got into the game??

[Ehhric]

Sick... great addition toward the actuality of NHL

[canucksss]

Quote: Originally Posted by jyoung

If they don't want to sign deals with all the mask artists, then why not just give us a custom mask designer feature like Skate 3 has? Should be easy to implement that kind of feature since it's already in another EA game.

Exactly...thanks

[DrJones]

Quote: Originally Posted by RealmK

What people need to keep in mind, and someone can certainly correct me if I'm wrong on this. Wouldn't EA in alot of cases need also the mask artists' permission to use their work? Also wouldn't those people seek compensation from their work being used in a commercial product? I'd imagine it comes again down to the NHL sku having a much smaller budget than say a Madden or Fifa or NBA2k.

This is correct. When I was working on NHL (many moons ago), I was told that to get authentic masks for all 30 starters at the time would cost about a million bucks.

[DrJones]

Quote: Originally Posted by yankeesgiants

Authentic masks were in NHL 97 on the PC. It would be nice if they could get that license back.

They never had that license. They used authentic masks without the artists' permission.

[yankeesgiants]

Quote: Originally Posted by DrJones

They never had that license. They used authentic masks without the artists' permission.

There press release from 1996 says otherwise.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Electr......-a018742886

[Panther84]

I bet it's only Brodeur's mask. Remember last year when they added authentic intros for SJ and Edm we all thought more teams would have it but NOPE. Regardless nice to see them trying...Bring on 13!

[yankeesgiants]

Quote: Originally Posted by jyoung

If they don't want to sign deals with all the mask artists, then why not just give us a custom mask designer feature like Skate 3 has? Should be easy to implement that kind of feature since it's already in another EA game.

Good point considering Nascar 09 has paint booth that let you do custom work.