NHL 15 Screenshots - American Airlines Center & Rogers Arena

[Steve_OS]

EA Sports will be releasing NHL 15 screenshots from every NHL arena over the next few months. Today they have released screenshots of American Airlines Center and Rogers Arena.

The power of the next-gen consoles finally allows the NHL franchise to capture every detail of an NHL arena. Unique arena elements such as 19,000+ seat capacities, dynamic lighting, player entrance tunnels and much more are all captured with a level of detail not possible on the previous generation. This summer, NHL 15 will make home games will truly feel like home.

Previously released arena screenshots:

• Madison Square Garden & Joe Louis Arena
• Consol Energy Center & Staples Center
• TD Garden & The Pepsi Center
• Honda Center & Xcel Energy Center

Your thoughts?

[denniscvd]

By now we know United Center won't be in there since they've basically released every playoff team's stadium by now

[Madwolf]

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The Rog looks awesome!

[Morry83]

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The AAC looks great, but it's WAY to dark. It's a real bright arena.

[PhillyGuy11826]

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Rogers Arena looks incredible. But that shouldn't come as a shock.

By now we know United Center won't be in there since they've basically released every playoff team's stadium by now

Of the 10 that have been released the Canucks are the only non-playoff team that have been released.

Chicago, Columbus, Montreal, Philadelphia, St. Louis, & Tampa Bay are the ones that haven't been shown. Three major hockey cities are on that list so don't hang your head low just yet.

Also if they continue releasing two every Saturday, then we'll see new arenas every Saturday until 9/20. haha

[canucksss]

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I just hope that NHL 15 will truly feel and PLAY like NHL game.

[Peter_OS]

I agree with Morry83.

stadiums looks too dark. More lighting is required.

[BaylorBearBryant]

AAC looks great. It is a little dark like it was mentioned, but other than that, pretty spot on.

[Jattbreed]

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Once again, the NHL 15 stadiums forgot to pay their electricity bills completely.

[csamuelsvt]

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I believe some parts are dark due to the framerate.

[mt8732]

Yea the lighting for all these arenas is the same. Looks like a laker game at staples. At a blue jackets game the whole place is lit up even the nosebleeds. If its frame rate then use lower res crowd for upper deck or something

[bigwill33]

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Exactly, there is no point in rendering 19000 fans if 14000 of them are in pitch black and can't be seen anyway. The beautiful banners and artistic designs that make these arenas unique are lost in the drab lighting effects. They spent all that time on these beautiful arenas, finally, only to blindfold nearly 1/3 to 1/2 of their work.

[spidertour02]

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Exactly, there is no point in rendering 19000 fans if 14000 of them are in pitch black and can't be seen anyway. The beautiful banners and artistic designs that make these arenas unique are lost in the drab lighting effects. They spent all that time on these beautiful arenas, finally, only to blindfold nearly 1/3 to 1/2 of their work.

I highly doubt that the quality of the crowd in the nosebleeds is the same as the quality of the crowd right against the glass. The reason it's dark in the upper areas of every arena is so that they can hide the lower-quality models of the crowd and save CPU resources.

[Segagendude]

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I'm just spit-balling here, but perhaps the darkened parts of the arenas due to framerate issues, is due partly because of added refs on the ice?

I.E., if they still had the lone ref, there'd be that much more resources freed for crowd renders?

I dunno.

[hawley088]

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you guys realize how often you will see the upper areas of these arenas when actually playing the game right? hardly ever